seurat drawings

From the MoMA archives
Studies for Une Baignade, Asnières and Un dimanche après-midi à l'Ile de la Grande Jatte 

Both visually and conceptually linked to my previous figure work, much less portraits these drawings focus on light rather than over defining the features, creating these hazy images.
I'm also interested in the idea of these works as 'studies' as a lot of my two dimensional, graphic work is made with intention to lead into other work (eg video), and it builds up: my work becomes source material for new work.

artists, light, all the good stuff

'Stating the Real Sublime' Rosa Barba, Tate Modern 2010

Anna Wignell
'Ibland ser jag mer" (sometimes I see more)

'Reflecting on Capture' (Wignell)

Robert Irwin

hiroshi sugimoto

"Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame? And the answer: You get a shining screen. Immediately I sprang into action, experimenting toward realizing this vision. Dressed up as a tourist, I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture, and two hours later when the movie finished, I clicked the shutter closed." 
 

  
"Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing."

"Thinking  to devise a way of observing shadows, the project escalated into a major undertaking, requiring an entire hilltop penthouse in an older apartment in Tokyo. When surfaces receives light, the light effects varies according to the angle of exposure. Selecting three distinct angles―90°, 55° and 35°―I had the walls surfaced using traditional Japanese shikkui plaster finishing, which absorbs and reflects light most evenly. In the morning light, the shadows play freely over the surfaces, now appearing, now vanishing. While on rainy days, they take on a deeper, more evocative cast."

Geert Goiris 'Whiteout'

Galerie der Gegenwart ( 06-05-10 to 11-07-10 )
'Whiteout', the new addition to the museum’s collection, is an arrangement of multiple slide projections that were shot in the Antarctic. It deals with the fascinating and dangerous weather phenomenon of the same name. Caused by the refraction of light in an air saturated with ice-crystals, a ‘whiteout’ makes all contrasts dissolve and leads to the disappearance of the horizon line. This experience can result in a complete loss of all sense of orientation.

woodcuts

white out

Ganzfelds are spaces where the eye has nothing to latch on to, the only example in the natural world being arctic white outs. I'm becoming interested in these blurred visions and the links it draws with light installations, such as James Turrell's works

(My photographs, Conistone Coppermines Dec 2010)

graphite paper

ganzfelds

when james furrell first made his ganzfeld works, people got disorientated. and they fell over.