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Audit is 50 photographs of 50 different items which wouldn’t exist collectively without my own existence. The photographs are numbered and displayed beside a ‘catalogue’ of descriptions. [EXIT degree show]
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So, it has been a while. My life is underwhelmingly the same although slightly more lacking in dissertation. Is it weird to say that I miss my dissertation? The more I thought about it, the more ideas I had. The […]
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Quand les gros maigrissen, les maigres meurent. It means: When the fat grow thin, the thin die. A chinese proverb. It’s in French because I stole it from Exquisite Pain by Sophie Calle. Language is funny.
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“What’s the difference between an arts graduate and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.” Today, I have been looking into what I will do following my degree. I’d be quite interested to go into art writing/journalism. […]
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*edit. No swear words. Wow. It has been a while! Well, here’s an update. Since I have been completely consumed, digested and excreted by my dissertation; I feel sort of reborn. I’m not actually finished with my dissertation, but now […]
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“Days left: 345” – AN, 19th October 2010 All of the minutes spent doing mindless things like applying make up, watching television and making tea. Everything is so trivial when you look at the bigger picture. You could really do […]
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During a one to one tutorial with my tutor, he had noted various things that he thought about my work so far this year. Two words that seem to have stuck with me are transient and permanent. “I am just […]
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It has been five days since I last posted. After my previous run of posts; I almost feel naughty. So here it is… A progress update. I’m feeling very positive about my work and creative flow at the moment – […]
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I definitely spent a lot of my student loan in charity shops today – St Elizabeth Hospice wins the prize. £30 on a couple of vintage brooches, scarf rings, a blanket, a foot stool and a telephone stand. I bought […]
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I almost forgot; watching television through a taleidoscope. I hunted high and low for a taleidoscope – one of those cheap plastic ones. They’re the type of thing you’d get in party bags as a child. None of the toy […]
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Tonight, I attended a talk by a local on “Art, Reality, Photography and the Human Mind.” The title, I’m sure you’ll agree, is intriguing and I was expecting an enlightening or at least eye opening John Berger derived presentation projecting […]
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This piece is pretty self explanatory. Here is the link to the piece in its entirety: http://smemalem.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/the-typew… Recently, I have delved into the idea of self and presence and the playful yet artful practice of intricate people watching. During […]