Selection

I am in the process of selecting my 10 images to exhibit on Thursday.

It is a frustrating process, mainly because the way I have been thinking about the project has evolved over the last 3 weeks.  

Following Objects for a Studio: Manchester, I felt the camera played to dominant a role in the project. Each studio day resulted in hundreds and hundreds of photos. The problem seemed to be creating a piece of work which was photogenic, rather than simply making work. 

For this reason, I wasn’t even sure whether I would use a camera at all in Amersfoort.  Despite having again proposed to document each studio day with a single photograph – I wondered if there was another way of doing this.  I toyed with ideas of using a Polaroid camera, so that I could only take 1 photo per day.  I also thought of filming the whole day and then choosing the most appropriate stills from the footage.  With all this in mind, and no decisions made, I started my studio days in Amersfoort.

Something that became apparent on the first day was that the sculpture I was making was the most important aspect of the day – and that it wasn’t necessary to make any definite decisions as to whether to take or not take photos; to video or not video. Making the work was paramount, and the documentation was a secondary decision that could be left until the end of the day.

So this is how I began, but as I mentioned before – things changed.