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Final exhibition set up

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Final Exhibition Prints and Statement 

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WEEK FOURTEEN

Exhibition and hand in week

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Tessa Garland

Glimpsey is a sequence of observational video shots, taken through windows in new residential areas in East London. Contained within the seemingly private space of their own apartments, she has recorded people performing domestic actions. They are actions that are not unique, individual or remarkable yet they are universally similar.

glimpsey is part of an ongoing series of work that explores ideas about urban living, public and private space, surveillance and voyeurism.

I came across the work recently after shooting my window series but it had a similar presence. Although Tessas is a video it has a similar feeling of looking into the private lives of others. Some of her images also remind me of similar ideas to mine around the layout and how it looks like an apartment block or city scape with the closeness of the windows. Each window carries a unique light, overwhelming amounts of windows to look at yet you feel shut of from what is going on inside. 

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Playing around with the powerline layout to see how it might work

If I go with this idea I need to look into materials for the powerlines. Something thick. - looks at mitre ten or Bunnings.

In exhibition might have to hang from the tops of the movable walls.

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Spark made for second critique - last one 

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Playing around with possible layouts for exhibition.

I like 2 and 7 the most at the moment but i would like to asses my test prints before i decide on sizes of work to be displayed. 

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Shoot 3

Shoot 3 i have played with the camera settings and overlaying images by exposing the camera twice. I did this by taking two long exposures and then they were overlaid onto each-other. A couple were succsesful and i quite enjoyed the randomness of the outcome yet i don’t feel i love them enough to use as my final prints for exhibition, however it has been really good to experiment to give myself options and to see if it would possibly lead to a different outcome. Perhaps if i had more time this experimentation could be taken further but i love the simplicity of my first shoots which the outcome feels much more related to my idea. 

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"Its had a long history and it will continue to have a history. It's like we're a part of its life"

- Gilmore Girls, Lorelai 

I was watching Gilmore Girls which the actual show has nothing to do with my project but there was something said which triggered me to think about the structures we place ourselves in.

The places we call home the structures we decide will shelter us is not just so much “our” home that is part of our lives but actually this quite says it very well that more so we are part of these structures lives. For many of the houses we live in have had many in it before we came and presumably so will continue to hold different people and stories as they pass through in the future after we leave. 

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New work through experimentation this week

Seeing what it looks like to layer the coloured windows and black and white images in different ways. Although i quite like some of the concepts i came up with i’m not sure it adds anything specific to my project. I feel like the images were stronger before adding them together and perhaps the ideas behind them are more visual when the two works are separated, maybe i cant physically add them together, maybe they can work separately so not shown together yet come together to make the narrative stronger by being in each-others presence. 

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“Our brains are wired to scout for the bad stuff and fixate on the threat”

- psychologist and author Rick Hanson. 

The Caveman, is where this built in mindset started. Research shows that our brains evolved to react much more strongly to negative experiences than positive ones. It kept us safe from danger. But in modern days, where physical danger is minimal, it often just gets in the way.

It’s called the negativity bias.

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Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. It is a philosophy of personal eudaimonic virtue ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world. Asserting that the practice of virtue is both necessary and sufficient to achieve eudaimonia - flourishing, by means of living an ethical life. The Stoics identified the path to eudaimonia with a life spent practicing the cardinal virtues and living in accordance with nature.

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Mårten Lange

https://azurebumble.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/marten-lange-anomalies-series-photography/

Mårten Lange was born in 1984 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He obtained his BFA Photography from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden in 2009.

Lange’s work underscores photography’s empiricism, its liberation from the subjectivity of other media. In his work, form is stripped of meaning and allowed to stand unadorned, ready for contemplation. Lange believes in the power of the index. When viewed in sequence, his stark, black-and-white photographs of both natural and manmade phenomena resemble a meticulously assembled catalogue of objects whose common quality remains tantalizingly obscure, despite the undeniable sense that they are, somehow, related.

Lange’s work has a high contrast of sharp whites almost blinding and deep blacks which creates this stark image that almost looks unreal or like a drawing. The long exposure and black and white has creating a stunning series of work. I would perhaps benefit from playing around with the types of contrast i can create with black and white. Especially because i want the windows in my black and white series to be this kind of sharp blinding white light like Mårten achieves.