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Chasing Shadows

Man Parrish - Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)

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Filters

Black animation screen test 2010

I feel rather aware of the studio as a convention, and its traditional whiteness has affected the work dramatically. In the last show I responded by presenting the work within a 'science lab' situation. It seemed to make sense drawing that parallel between those two highly controlled environments – it’s almost like the Petri dish, sanitised for the sake of one culture.

As with the Sonia Boyce piece, there is close affinity between this work and those lived objects behind glass (a device or filter that somehow promises a more objective view). Its funny since I feel that the work is becoming more personal, but at the same time its appearance is rather cool. I'm interested in that dichotomy between the subjective and the objective and will to push this further...

Shadows

'Untitled Black animation' 2009

The natural progression from these drawings has been animation - a very simple stop frame process. My first was shown in the ‘Corridor’ exhibition, but I wasn’t entirely happy with the edit. I decided to re-edit which took quite a while. My mind was running ahead of the process, I was willing the piece to become something different. Also there were some basic technical things I couldn’t get the hang of. I want to show this piece differently to, back projection seems a good option.

As I was on my travels last week I came across, a corporate building with an entirely glazed frontage. One side was frosted, I didn’t have my camera but found myself drawn to a shadow visible through the frosted glass – it reminded me of something I saw in a book years ago...

Sonia Boyce 'Peep' 1995

Shadow sketch 2010