http://www.victorialucas.co.uk/cv.aspx

http://www.victorialucas.co.uk/cv.aspx A web page that talks about her work that mirrors what i want to do with regards to sound and video by documenting different contexts.

http://www.victorialucas.co.uk/artwork/the-search.aspx

Sound Installation As part of the Swap Project at The Hepworth, Victoria Lucas creates a sound installation in response to Barbara Hepworth's 'Mother and child' (1934). In 'The Search', the artist and her two siblings strive to replicate the sound of their mothers laugh; a sound that they have not heard for seven years since her death. Through their own inherited voices, they repeatedly search for the correct sequence of sounds. A laugh is something that is unique to everyone, and remembering through reenactment preserves the memory of not only the sound, but also the person to whom it belonged. The transient nature of the voice as it fills the air and then dissipates allows one to consider the ephemeral nature of existence against the passage of time.

I like how their voices mimic how they would have sounded 7 years ago. it shows that their memories have not changed with time.

http://www.victorialucas.co.uk/artwork/fragments.aspx

Video Installation Part of the Separations exhibition, which was facilitated and curated by Victoria Lucas and her colleague Andy Broadey. Based in a disused factory space, the exhibition was contextualized in the regeneration area of Holbeck Urban Village. Concentrating on various minutiae in the exhibition space, Fragments captures junctures that had transpired within the surrounding building. The fragmented moments were installed in conjunction with the surrounding architecture, each film relating visually to the next.

It is interesting how she has captured the insects capturing every little movement. i particularly like the video looking out of a window of the factory, it shows how it was in the past. just the slight movements of the fan and clouds make it captivating to watch. 

http://www.victorialucas.co.uk/artwork/pendulum.aspx 

Limited Edition (1/5) Digital Video 2:49 'Untitled (Pendulum)' depicts a shadow of an inoperative light bulb, swinging back and forth on an angled surface plain. The real object is removed; making the shadow the only thing that defines the angle of the wall it is projected upon. The concept of the film is retained between layers of light, depth, and surface. At the beginning of film the ‘pendulum’ is quick in pace, and as the momentum slowly diminishes the film fades. As instruments of time, both the pendulum and the moving image convey the fragility of temporal existence.

The projection shows another way i could go if i do projections in the future. I appreciate how time has stood still by the viewer waiting for the pendulum to stop.  


http://www.hondartzafraga.com/blog/annorstades/ 


The way the video is moving slowly with breaks inbetween to allow the viewer to compose themselves and take in the view is cleverly done. I like how the video is documenting journey too. 


'The camera pans through a landscape of ambiguous scale, accompanied by the sound of a Nyckelharpa (a traditional swedish instrument), that like the image, oscilates betweem melody and dissonance.'


http://www.hondartzafraga.com/blog/d-is-for-distance/

I like how the video is fast paced and that it has no real beginning or end, time is forgotten. I could use this in the future within my video work.

http://www.hondartzafraga.com/blog/uninhabited/

Printing onto glass looks a very satisfying outcome to achieve and is not something i have seen before.

http://www.alicebradshaw.co.uk/

Static - 2009- The video of the hole punched text reminds me of stills that i made into a video on my first project. I don't think that my film was quite as jumpy as static is, but it would be interesting if i could make that same effect in future work.

Brown paper bag box 2008 - I like how this animation is using a simple material and process (scrunching up a brown paper bag). I find it very entertaining. It relates to putting an everyday object out of context.

     

Where i am heading-

I hope to experiment with more effects on Final Cut Pro and learn more about the software, to enable me to create more interesting work with sound and video.

I would like to have a go at maybe using laser Tran on different surfaces.

Trace - Skin module

• Used photoshop to create images from fur materials. 
• I used these images to make metal etchings and a photo etching with. 
• I learnt how to do metal casting
• From vector images of fur patterns that i created on Illustrator, i made brooches on the laser cutter from plastic perspex.    
• Final pieces - 
• I made a photoetched plate from a pattern that i created on Photoshop, that I hand polished to create a much better effect.  
• I made a Japanese stab binding book with tracings of patterns i made on Photohsop. 
• I made a brooch that was part plastic laser cut piece and part etched metal that I'd curved on a mould. The difficult thing about this was that I had to drill the holes to attach them both to each other with pins without going off centre on the plastic or else they both wouldn't fit.   

Some of my strengths - 

I was able to follow my ideas through to metal work successfully from Photoshop work. 

I created a range of patterns to choose from on Photoshop. 

I manged to try out a variety of methods working with metal and other materials. 

once a tutor had shown me how to use the laser cutter a few times, I managed to work it by myself. 

I managed to create a beautifully finished etched plate.

I sold my plastic and copper brooch in the book fair, which was great news.   

Some Weaknesses - 

I kept on breaking the blade on the metal hand saw, which was frustrating.    

When I finished creating my metal pieces i found it quite hard to polish them using a machine. 

Modules - The Commonplace object; a mindful exploration of process

 

• I used photography to document my starting points with everyday objects - putting them out of context. 
• I did blind drawings from photographs of tongs that i put out of context. 
• I used the idea of creating different effects with screen printing- 2 colour and 4 colour separation using my photographs of everyday activities with tongs. 
• I learnt how to create photograms using coal tongs. 
• I did a visual diary of doing everyday activities using coal tongs - subverting their original purpose. 
• I cast the tongs in wax and added everyday objects to them - what concept the tongs went from was 'ordinary to extraordinary' - 'useful to sculptural' 

Some of my strengths throughout this module were -  

• I wasn't afraid to try out a new technique of working with objects in and out of context.
• I was experimental with using blind drawings to show another side of drawing. 
• I was able to follow what I had learnt in screen printing workshops to my own ideas with hardly any errors made. 
• I didn't mind what other people thought of my work as they said it was 'funny' and 'weird'. I just ignored that and got on with the process of taking pictures using coal tongs because it was something that was challenging and fun to do. 

Weakness - 

• The only set back with using wax was that it was quite fragile to handle and it broke in several places so it had to be thrown away.