PHVP 3412 Creative professional practice

unless stated otherwise, work posted here will NOT be of my own, but that of inspiration.

Pages from the Diary; Getting down thoughts.

These are two pages from my notebook, in which I sketched down my first initial ideas to do with Sexual desires in OCD sufferers.

It’s been noted that OCD sufferers are more inclined to develop sexuality issues, weather it be their sexuality, sexual desires and or control. Relinquishing control is a major issue that crops up in the debate on OCD. People whom suffer often push their controlling needs into other aspects of their lives, in some cases it’s sexual desires.

Musical Inspiration:

Mount Kimbie:

Would Know

Chosen this as a preliminary piece of musical inspiration for its abstract noises. There seems to be knocks, bangs and hisses embedded within the beat of the song. It reminds me of David Lynchs’ atmospheric ambient sound effects in his film Eraserhead, which features drones, machienary and the hissing of pipes. It’s effects are to pull the outside in, taking sounds we associate with large open spaces, and pulling them into a much smaller, almost claustrophobic environment.

I’ll link up more Musical inspirations (Some that of Lynch) in the coming weeks. Music/ambient sounds have become a vital asset to this piece, assuming it can be put to great effect just like the greats such as Lynch had in the past.

Extremely ruff torso: Taking it off my model proved to be an issue, and we had to partly take it apart to do so. Once we’ve got the studio, and storyline ironed out/booked, it will be a matter of getting her back into it, and then patching up any mishaps. For the legs, we’ve got jeans as a stable platform for the duct tape. It will then be a case of putting the final details to that on set.

Extremely ruff torso: Taking it off my model proved to be an issue, and we had to partly take it apart to do so. Once we’ve got the studio, and storyline ironed out/booked, it will be a matter of getting her back into it, and then patching up any mishaps. For the legs, we’ve got jeans as a stable platform for the duct tape. It will then be a case of putting the final details to that on set.

Remake: This is a progress update on how the female suit will work/look. Made a ruff version of the bust, to be later made into a mask, for easy access and movement. I want the suit to resemble a woman’s figure, utilising all the curves and bumps on the female anatomy. The torso will be up next.

Remake: This is a progress update on how the female suit will work/look. Made a ruff version of the bust, to be later made into a mask, for easy access and movement. I want the suit to resemble a woman’s figure, utilising all the curves and bumps on the female anatomy. The torso will be up next.

Drawing up a Storyboard…

As I speak. It’s coming together nicely now. The research so far is pushing through into my work. 

It’s fast becoming my own view on the Anxiety you feel in day to day life, using the OCD nature/concept as a tool to underpin my work. It will hopefully pull back it’s function as an experimental film by the way In which it’s edited together. 

Tomorrow ( Wednesday 22nd of Feb):

  • Creating the first mock-up of the Duct tape body suit: Using a female model this time, to help tie together different ideas such as ‘The Male Gaze’ (up and coming blog post), sexuality and shape & form.
  • I will create a suit which minimises the amount of Duct tape I use, but allows me more or less full body angles to utilize. (Drawing of Concept to follow shortly)
  • The door, which was previously blogged earlier in the head of the Duct tape bust, will remain a key feature, allowing me to represent a Direct way of showing the daemons (Anxiety, fear) directly effecting the Humanoid.

Thursday 23rd Feb:

  • Continuing with Research and Concept outline/storyboarding.

Friday 24th Feb:

  • Initial Concept filming; Allowing me to film the humanoid suit from different angles, checking out lighting and set up of the studio.
  • Will try different mock-ups of the bust, with different light sources for ease of use.

Teun Hocks:

Recently discovered Hocks work in the book: Constructed Realities, The Art of Staged Photography. The book has a bewildering array of different approaches to the staged photograph, and Hocks is one that completely stood out for me. 

It was a delight to find out he Paints onto his gelatin-silver prints, creating a direct connection with the would be Artist/photographer/performer. The images are quirky in nature, trying to force the viewer into psycho-analysing the images, taking them apart and finding meaning. Don’t get me wrong, the images aren’t at all as cryptic as Lynch or Crewdson, they more or less speak for themselves, but still portray the message from artist Hocks.

Representation is used a lot in Staged photography, using metaphors to explain different meanings and concepts. It’s directly influencing my work.

‘The study of mathematics is thought have begun in ancient India and China. “Zero” and ”infinity” were not so much discoveries as human inventions.’

Hiroshi Sugimoto.

The use, very much like Anna & Bernhard blumes work, consists of shapes and forms. Unlike Blumes’ work, which is largely to do with protagonists and sexuality of shape and form, Sugimotos is based upon Mathematical equations. The notion of human interaction in his work indicates a presence of man, whilst the shapes that are taken from pure mathematics, share a simular feel from Blumes’, sexual and sumptuous form, emulating that of the female body.

Anna & Bernhard Blume:

“Their distortions, deconstructions and exaggerations of reality heighten and extend reality into the sphere of the imaginary. Both qualities, that of the subversion and that of reflection, are the coordinates for the enormous interest that many artists of today, and not least the younger generation, show both in the Blumes’ photographic works in their works on paper.”

Dorothea Strauss & Kurt Wettengl. Anna and Bernhard Blume, Images from real life.

I’ve chosen to link up two of my favorite images from Anna & Bernhard Blume. After reading about them last year and doing extensive research, I came to find a series of constructed self portraits depicting objects and space.

They blur the lines between the real and the surreal, inviting you in to their constructed realities. The gaze given off by the characters is sometimes directed towards you, the viewer, somehow penetrating the large barrier between our own and their reality, making it feel as if they’re inviting you in?

‘Anna and Bernhard Blume start off by creating, through their theatrical poses, a lively atmosphere for the dialogue between the work and the viewer. In a pseudo-playful manner, they persent possible artistic and approaches in a language of such formal clarity that they almost invite imitation.”

Dorothea Strauss also went on to say in the previous mentioned book;

“the Blumes show, on the one hand, an impressed self, a self deeply affected by the forces behind the achievement of abstraction, that is to say, its act of freeing itself from narrative constraints, from the representational dictates of reality.”

I’m still fascinated by their work, it truly influences me to push forward in my film, helping me find meanings in ideas and concepts you didn’t think had them. 

Sexuality, Form & Taboo.

Shapes of the Human Figure? 

Pornography, sexual desires & it’s relation to photography/video.

I’m going to delve into this a lot more over the coming weeks, bring out the different aspects of OCD which know one knows about. 

Objects and Representation are key in my first glance into this subject, with early pornographic photographers suggesting sexual imagery with objects covering provocative parts of the human figure. 

With the presence of new technology, Photoshop and scanning equipment, ‘ART PHOTOGRAPHY NOW’ says ” Here the very thing becomes bot the subject and the object, blurring boundries between [reality and representation].” (my own emphasis)