Ruby

Description
I am working with the idea (in short) of presence found in absence. I am investigating this idea in three different directions.

• Firstly, by re-arranging and photographing stranger’s inorganic junk, I create new narratives from possessions that are no longer wanted, recreating life in the lifeless.
• Secondly I plan to look into what it is in an object that draws us in, what provokes the imagination. By selecting small enticing objects, I will detract from them their contexts or properties which make them enticing or attractive and place them in a new form, to analyze their effect in a new environment
• Ritualistic Space. The space or place in which we interact/play/react. To these objects

The photographs are named Car. Boat. House.

Between them are the domestic connection, of the American dream for wealth, expectation and fulfillment. But they are made intentionally shabby, through the photography medium and the materials of junk. They are an impression of the used, and a playful approach, like of an imaginative child to bring those ideals and qualities back, and to make use of what we have here and now.

The objects will be displayed with the intention of being picked up, played with, tried on. They are also to provoke a childlike experience to make use of the familiar, discarded. I will manipulate small enticing things to provoke imagination.

The ritualistic space will be explored to create a place possible of these



Reference:
I have been reading
Emerge : Sue de Beer / [text by Shamim M. Momin ... [et al.] (2005)
Call number: 770 D2865 at Fine Arts Library

Sue De Beer takes many of her narratives that run through her films and photographs from short stories and extracts from friends and writers, I have looked at the way I which she has translated the text to image, such as ‘Burnt’ By Trinnie Dalton pg 55-56, which influences the emotion and imagery, such as symbolic use of sue de beers work such as the relationship between pop culture and horror films for example, seen in Black Sun images pgs 116-126.