Jeff Wall

After "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, the Preface, 1999-2000

Chairs- Inside Out

I love Paul Raphaelson's interest in finding spots of greenery in urban locations and relating them to a garden. This is something which I have been interested in for a number of years with chairs being outside. I love this idea that the outdoor becomes what we associate with indoors. Garden Livingrooms. It is also the idea that to me it's so Cypriot. So endearing. It may seem to others as something which is obsurd, but in Cyprus it's part of everyday life, and something which I feel becomes overlooked.

A small collection of some of the chairs I've collected.

I would love to create another book with my collection of images.

Urban Decay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pierrelaphoto/7357976/#/photos/pierrelaphoto/7357976/lightbox/

Found this really lovely image. It reminded me of Louise Nevelosn, who works with boxes creating shapes and structures. There's many interesting shapes and it becomes almost abstract. I also love the washed out colours, given it a weathered look, something urban, which is a trend that runs in my photography.It tends to be the more poverty stricken areas that have the most interesting textures and surfaces.

Paul Raphaelson- Lost Spaces- Found Gardens. I love this idea of something we don't generally tend to notice being referred to as something which we can relate to.

Adobe Lightroom

Ive now been introduced to Adobe Lightroom and I love it. Been using it to experiment with images, as well as trying to increase the quality in some of my work so it reads better when it's published. I saw a group of birds on a telegraph pole and had to drive home to get a camera quick. I added more black to the image so that the pole and the birds became sillohete like and put more vibrance for the sky, making it heavily satuated.

T-shirt Printed

Just as a way to visualise the idea further, I had a test t-shirt printed. I'm fairly pleased with the outcome as a first attempt, but feel that the image isn't clear enough, or at a standard high enough to print from. Im also not happy with the shiny transfer used for the image. I wanted the image to blend into the t-shirt like it does in the original print. I don't like the size of the text underneath the image, and if I was to print it again, I would probably not use the text at all. Instead I would create a label inside the t-shirt with the website information.

Website Plan- Part Two

Art in Unusual Spaces Lecture

In my opinion, art outside of conventional institutions in something really exciting. It begins to have other elements that become a work of art itself. For example, mentioned earlier in my blog, the Liverpool 2010 Biennial used Rapid, a disused store in the city centre as its base, as well as to hold many works. I became interested in this different approach and radical thinking about how to display artworks such as in the stores windows, a space we are used to seeing retail items. By doing this I feel it engages better with the public, as people who may not be interested in viewing art in its conventional settings, such as galleries and museums, are now forced to either engage or notice art.

Raphaelle de Groot is a Canadian artist, who explores working outside of the institution. For 8x 5x 363 +1 (2002- 2006) de Groot took up residence in a textile factory in Biella, Italy. Rapaelle found that trying to hold and sustain a conversation with the workers in the loud and busy factory was almost impossible. She initially explored the idea of using boxes, in which she would ask the factory workers a question and they were to answer through posting their response through the box. She eventually replaced the system with disposable cameras, again she would write a question on the camera, although this time the workers were to respond by answering the question with a photograph. I really love this idea of the responses being photographic representations as to what the artist had asked, and the idea that each response would be different.

Manifesta, is a multi-faceted organisation that holds Biennials.