New Project

For the new project we had to create an archive set of 20 images. For this I wanted to make sure my archive could refllect my practice as a photographer, trying to do something different I chose to look at abstract reflections. This relates to my practice as the abstract is such a wide area of debate within art and I like to explore such debates with my photography.

The next part of our project we were given an object. I was given washing up sponges. This was a starting point to start off ideas and develop our own professional practices. I started to think of the sponge as a thing that holds information like the sea animals do. This made me think of what we use to store information on such as books, dvd's, computers, usb sticks etc. Thinking back to Alec Soth's exhibition in New York I thought I would make an installation out of everything I own that I store inforamtion on. The idea was that these maerial things were my memory, my knowledge. I experiemented a little bit with building these installations and shortly decided it wasn't a god idea to carry on as it didn't reflect what I was trying to do within my practice and that was to question the status of photography and art and my own role as a photographer or artist.