The Piano photo shoot.

Jamie, one of my course tutors brought me in part of a piano from home and said ‘do what you wish with it’. Looking at it from never seeing something like this before was quite over facing and daunting because its so beautiful and so complex that you couldn't really take bits apart without other bits coming apart as well, so I wanted to show case it. 

I like playing with the idea of light dancing through objects and casting beautiful shadows beyond it. I wanted to showcase the beauty, the age and the complexity of the object itself and not really change or distort the original object too much. 

I started by setting it up in the studio with light shining through it and looking at how shadows moved through it. I'm not a pro at photography and camera fiddling but I had a go and was blissfully pleased with the outcome, the light dancing didn't happen much but the way the dust shon of the pedals and the different woods that where highlighted with this light made a quite sinister photo shoot look like a ballet of light and beauty. 

 I have thought  about releasing these photos as a single piece of work because there are many ways I could play around with them and show their abandonment before casting it as a whole new use and purpose. 

I think that some of the photos can be quite taunting and sinister being so delicate and dark with dust drooped on them creates a feeling of dispare, of disfunction and and eary sense of what used to be before the iPad and iPod. 

The fact we don't really need or use these anymore gives the object and lure of antique and quality and of grandness. These things need to be cherished, to be showcased and to be revived into the 20th century with a kickass designer…. Que. cough and attention to me, I take that challenge. 

Bots

Recently I have been applying for university, I have been looking at courses dug has sculpture and 3D design, yes I have done some design pieces I wanted to try making something than just function furniture. I wanted to make something sculptural and ascetic ally pleasing but still keeping in my field of up cycling. I came across these Gizmobots at Bury museum and absolutely loved them, I loved the recycled aspect, they playful characters and the different personalities each one held, I was inspired and wanted to mirror all the qualities that caught my eye and made me smile. 

I have good connections with the college estates (like the college janaters, who preserve and look after all the college buildings and envronment), Ian who works for them is a good friend and heps me out time to time when college is developing and closing down a building to build a new one he will allow access to come and go whatever has been left, this is like the other side of me (bring a woman) like bring let loose in tiffanys or... Something as good as that! It's so inspiring to get the strangest of objects that you find and sontimes just the ordinary. ANYWAY, they were closing down the machanics bulidings so I contacted him and started collecting stuff, now that was a visit! The stuff in there was amazing and super inspiring. 

Theses are the bots I made from old car parts, some parts from a spot welder and some prsure gages. I tried to make a character and personality for each of them and match the materials to create a whole object instead of something that looks like an onsomble of things.