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“Currently, the theory of cascading is accepted by most seismologists, geophysicists, and geologists. The cascade theory of fault rupture argues a quake has a tendency to spread across one part of a fault to a neighboring fault rupturing the crust like a crack spreading on thin ice.

Ideally, all earthquake activity ceases when the energy that produced the rupture ceases.”

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Research - Wormholes - folding space / time

Building the exhibition made me think of wormholes: what if space and time can be folded and two points far away can touch each other: two places far away can become very close? My photographs of other places are placed in a gallery / a new space. It creates an illusion of two places merging. They bring their rupture to that new place where they are exbited. The idea is near to what I try to achieve in my practice looking at the rupture happening between the location and the fabric sculpture and how their energy is bonded into a one still.

What if I’m building artistic wormholes when exhibiting my work? My works could work as portals to other places. They would rupture the reality where they are placed and offer a shortcuts to another places. They could also rupture space / time if placed in the same place where the photos were taken: making different moments to appear simultaniously. Although, this has been done before: creating this hallway of mirrors where everything is continuing to eternity. Also on Therapeutic Photography, families re-creating childhood photographs etc.

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Sketchbook - Research - Found this while walking

I found this while walking in Digbeth. It’s almost a ready setup to be photographed. The location is a kind of interesting industrial background. The fabric looks almost as a thought out and arranged sculpture. It would only need wind to start forming the rupture. The surface of the fabric is interesting even though it’s not brightly coloured. It reminds me strongly of Oh, Whistle, And I’ll Come to You, My Lad.

EDIT. 11.05.2016

I went to take more photographs of the fabric, but it was gone as it was when I took these photos. It was hanging on the other side of the fence.

Carpe Diem. Seize the day.

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Fabric sculpture - Embroidery 

These are the pieces I made first. They have been on our MA studio wall since I finished them. I like them as beautiful objects and they have a potential of being good pieces and developed further, but I don’t see them fitting my current state of work. It’s weird how the same practice can take so mony different forms. My vision of my work (themes, visuality, meaning, materials, media etc.) has crystallized fast during these weeks of April. It is useful to look at these pieces now, after having set up the exhibition. It shows the process and progress of my work so far. It makes the journey visible in a way.

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Photoshoot - Switzerland

Fabric resembles something alive again, this time even more: sperm, some worm or such. The movement of it is this time only an illusion: it is placed among the branches and there is no wind moving it. The colour and the background/location create a impressive contrast. There is Otherness present: an alien or a monster has landed through a rip the reality. There is something in these images that reminds me of the film Matrix.

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UNTITLED RUPTURE

April 2016 – series of still photographs printed on plywood and fabric – PS1 Margaret Street

Critical Evaluation on Advanced Practice 2

I feel I have had a good progress in my new practice. It is different from my previous work in Fashion and Illustration, but I have started to create a coherent body of work with a strong background research and themes. The start was slower than I hoped for but the analytical thinking has sped up after 1st term. I have accepted new ideas and directions given by tutors in one-to-one and group tutorials. On the other hand I have been independently thinking where I want my work to go.

I have bound my Advanced Practice strongly with Research In Practice module and it has made the work stronger both in thematic as well as in practical level. My option module choice of Photography as Research has empowered by work (photography & website).

Due to my pregnancy since almost the beginning of the course, I haven’t been able to explore the photo shoot possibilities to their maximum potency. That’s something I want to make stronger and take more photographs in different locations.

I feel my exhibition layout is strong, the space PS1 is very suitable and it has the elements in I want show in dissecting rupture: LOCATION/FABRIC/COLOUR/CONFUSION/REALITY. The layout with different angles, plains, shadows and surface material forms an interesting whole, that fully supports my themes and ideas from where the work springs from.

I wish I had very big pieces of plywood and fabric. I want to play with the scale more in the future and explore exhibiting on site (taking the prints to the locations where they were shot or to different locations) to create even more of a rupture and layers of reality/supernatural. First I thought the prints are going to take form as fabric sculptures, but now having set up, I see them more as strong still images and the material they are printed on becomes more important.

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Final layout

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Final layout

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Final layout

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Final layout