One my earlier projects involved going around the city noticing things - just random stuff, big or small things that struck me for whatever reason- and making a note of these. After a week or so of this, I went back to the sites to photograph them, and then worked on the resulting photographs. This is the last leg of the process: returning the images to the original sites. This the Gem returning back to the Gem:
I went out in the middle of the night feeling like a criminal skulking in the corners and got it on all wrinkly in my nervousness, so I went back in broad daylight and re-did it. Nobody paid a blind bit of attention to what I was doing - I'll definetely stick to daylight hours in the future!
Here's the original:
7th Oct 2010, 9.05pm. The Gem, Mixed Media on inkjet print, 2010
I was never too sure why I was doing these images, apart from vague political motivations - dereliction, dole queues etc feature in them. But having completed this step it is starting to make sense - a process of trying to take ownership of and putting a bit of me back into a city that has never really felt like home.
One down, eleven to go!
Interesting Project, K. Would now love to know whether there are reactions to what you are doing. Maybe you should leave a pen and post-it for people to react ;-)
ReplyDeleteSonja, yes, I thought about putting in a link for the blog.. maybe I will do that going forward, though i suspect most people go right past without paying any attention to their environments..
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