Rough Timeline

Timeline for Sculpture

Main ideas

1)   Photography, memory and loss

Research: Camera Lucida – Roland Barthes

                   The Magic Mirror – thesis Theresa Moerman

                    Christian Boltanksi

                    Eva Hesse

                    Rachel Whiteread

                    Kasia Larsen – fragments of me video

                   Egyptian mummification – photograph embalms time

                              

Crux of the idea: Print photos onto unusual surfaces – ideally I would like ephemereal materials that will cause the photo to distort – or to fragment it

Such as wax, organza and then harden it with fabric hardener (check with annelize ), packing material, household objects such as mirror (too cliché?) tiles, polyfiller - curtains, glass bricks …..

How:  ask Jenny/ Carolyn to give me a crash course on screenprinting and find out what materials it can work on

Also speak to Bruce Reynold about other photographic processes that could be useful eg cyanotype

When:            Week 4 – I need to have chosen which path I m gonna take or say 2 and then start experimenting with those; get knowledge of the skills, set up blog

                        Week 5 -  select photographs, manipulate, expose onto the screen if that’s the way its going

                        Week 6 – screenprint onto a variety of materials also try eucalyptus release

                        Week 7 – feedback

                       

Risks:             chemical s used and potential side effects such as the eucalyptus oil, fabric hardener etc

                        Risks of process of screen printing – new process, Uv exposure

Exhibit:          potentially as a suspension in the whitebox or could possibly suit the webb gallery better .

Idea 1b) Project photos onto the uncooked sadza on the gallery floor …

2)   Make a mould out of parts of my body

crux of the idea: - as per the thesis – a cast is in a sense a negative of the positive of the person – material void – speaks of absence we can touch – my body but also linked to mum by certain physical traces – link to landscape – when mum died I felt like I lost a sense of home and who I was she died and yet parts of me died too which I have been searching for when I went back to the family home in 2011 and since then in photographs …. Also a sense of violence in the way she died (accident) as well as linking to violence perpetrated in my motherland – loss of mum linked to a sense of loss of a motherland and a sense of home and belonging, sutures stitch back the pieces …..also about Zimbabweans and all that has been lost and people generally as we have all lost pieces of ourselves ….

                       

                        Other research: Ana Mendieta

                                                   Eva Hesse

                                                   Doris Salcedo

How:              hmmm how the heck to make a cast need to research that

                        or use plaster bandage to make it from live

                        or use wax slightly cooled …..

                        clear sealant ?

When:            Week 4:  more research on casting  & potentially some training ?

 do 4x  small experiements to assess whether the idea is viable

Week 5 & 6: take experiments and casts further to make 2 x substantial ones for week 7

Risks:             chemical exposure, plaster bandage dust, burns from wax

                        Unfamiliar processes

Idea 3)  Lifeboat theory

Crux of the idea: As a more lighthearted yet still meaningful project to me is to explore this idea of the lifeboat theory as written about by Donald Miller as commentary on society ….. narrative of 5 people being in need of a lifeboat and there only being space for 4 – who has value to take the space ? – question of values – of being inside and outside and who determines who has value …. The fight for importance – media 15 minutes of fame – selfies … yet whats the point of this striving – death -

Research: I have to look into this – Malthus

                                                            Hardin – lifeboat ethics

                                                            Donald Miller – lifeboat theory

How:   make a tile of images of people high resolution underlaid by the framework of a lifeboat laid out on the gallery floor so that people can wallk in and out OR use an actual lifeboat with cardboard models of people ?

When:            week 3 – think and see if this is actually viable and interesting or wheteher to keep it on the back burner until next year

                        Week 4 – think up 3x different ways to present this look up companies that do tile photographs or maybe liveimage ?

                        Week 5 – start activating  - collecting images of people and boat design

                        Week 6 – send in for printing in time for week 7

Risks:              storage / safety ?