From the Book: A Companion for the Lost

This is familiar unknown ground,

.       i feel beneath my feet

I am guided not by will, or knowledge

But through a sense of memory

I have been here before

.          Ventured through these

.     Obstacles, touched the air that

Hangs over me, yet I      don’t know

Why,

.        Although my tools, know this path,

My leg apon the floor, as it has

Before, and as it will again

.       As I climb, the steps to reach my

Undisclosed goal, I start to question

My motivation

.        Although this is soon quelled

By my        approach to the summit

.      My transport awaits, it welcomes

Me, with        warmth and light,

.     It is not mine to question, I accept

.      And enter, awaiting to finally move

From the Book: A Companion for the Lost

Where do I start on a story that has already ended?

It happens however, that this story

is one of repetition, constantly changing,

yet always remaining.

.                      My equipment, both physical and

emotional,                      is worn down,

repaired with little to no skill,

and barely functioning.

.          They themselves have been well used

in this story so far, and show

their age and distress much more

effectively than myself.

.         I will begin you entrance into

this story where I currently reside,

In the middle of a cycle.

.                 I assume its the middle,

Everything feels familiar, and yet I don’t

Know its course

.               Although I could hazard

.                      a guess

An exhibition exploring Art Medium, through work by James Eden, Jessica Killeen, Laurie Reynolds and Sam Taylor.

if your in Plymouth, U.K,  please come along and have a visit.

Medium: An exhibition exploring the boundaries of contemporary Art Medium

James Eden

James is currently undertaking a residency at Plymouth Arts Centre on which he is attempting to create new works whilst critically reflecting on his practice. Currently he is working sculpturally through several different methods. The new work shown here, Impossible Sculptures 2011 is an exploration into the sculptural possibilities of film. Accompanied by a variety of other works, which also question the boundaries of Art medium.  He is generally interested in a fluidity of form both physical and theoretical, in which his practice can adapt and works have no fixed meaning, viewers taking an essential role in forming and deconstructing any meaning that may be present.

www.jamesedenartist.com

Jess Killeen & Sam Taylor

For an artist drawing is an integral skill, it can be used in many differing fashions for us it a means to test ourselves. We do not draw with the intention of recreating; we draw to challenge, to challenge our abilities and our physicality and to challenge what it means to work in a collaborative relationship.

To collaborate is to work in unity we are exploring both this and its contradiction. Both through unified drawings and those with a competitive element we are creating indeterminate marks that are governed by either the other person or forces of the environment such as gravity and space.

We blur together elements of drawing, performance and sculpture in an attempt to better understand our concepts. We believe an amalgamation of skills and interests can be used by artists to better explore their field of interest.

www.jesskilleen.co.uk

Laurie Reynolds

Laurie Reynolds is an artist who makes work by experimenting with various interventions in the photographic process, creating incidental marks and imagery on film. Akin to alchemical experimentations and transformation, Reynolds pushes photography to its limits. With little knowledge of outcomes, the resulting imagery is not of any place or subject (like conventional photography) but they are images open for interpretation, possibilities evoked by the viewer.

The images in this show are created using a dry photographic developer created with James Eden to develop the film for various extended time periods. Each film could spend from 1 to 3 months in development. Liver of Sulpher, a common alchemical ingredient is added to the negative to expose the normally unseen silver in the photographic process, mapping fluidity and static movement.

Laurie has recently graduate from a Masters of Research in photography at the University of Plymouth, where he studied Process and philosophical considerations of chance and indeterminacy.

www.lauriereynolds.com

notable notes:  from a lecture from Bettina Von Zwehi

diary for 3rd Jan till 9th Jan

notable note:

Reflecting on Firestone aka Flint as situation to use in the Untitled Project

Fellow Artist Adam Piper and myself are in the starting stages of an project, the following are notes i made after our first discussion.

More Details to follow

to see Adam work please check www.adamjpiper.com