Faced with the opportunity of effectively doing whatever I wanted for the final few weeks of term, I toyed with a variety of ideas that probably wouldn't have been sustainable/possible for that length of time - illustration & art direction for the band Hush the Many (Heed the Few), a photographic series based on the depressingly repetitive interiors of chain fast food restaurants, even the construction of a ghost ride.
A recurrent theme in my work is making observations of the world around me and my recordings of those observations. In the first term I designed a game of chance based around travel in London, allowing chance to dictate my route and developing a complicated system by which to document my movements.
During these prescribed journeys I saw and heard and experienced a huge amount that was not possible or appropriate to document within the confines of the brief. This always frustrated me.
Therefore I propose to revisit the concept from which I allowed myself to deviate, the concept that interested me the most - the idea of setting out on a journey at the mercy of the unknown and learning from the environments in which I end up. The proposed outcome will be a boxed collection of short documents, taking various forms including illustrative, photographic, typographic and perhaps even filmic. The structure will be inspired by the Sagmeister 'Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far' publication.
Researching:
- Hamish Fulton
- Richard Long
- John Cage
- Fluxus
- Situationism (in more depth than before)
Think on.
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