London wanderer

I accompanied my friend Chantal to visit all the Olympic sites in North London. Whilst she took some magnificent shots using a Maya Camera, I snapped the surrounding areas with my digital. It was a bitterly cold but beautiful day.


Westfields at Shepard's Bush

Hackney Wick

The Saatchi Gallery-Gesamtkunstwerk

I went to the Saatchi Gallery's latest exhibition the other day of artwork from New Germany. I always enjoy the Saatchi Gallery because although the art can be very ambiguous and strange, I find it very relatable in some way, whether it is in the way the artist intended I don't know but all the same, I come away feeling fulfilled. Here are two works that I enjoyed the most.

Jeppe Hein made a mirror that shakes when the viewer approaches it, prompting us to re-access our relationship to it. It shows you the world you are experiencing but not what you are actually doing, you aren't wobbling and shaking. All sense of reality is obscured. 

Brothers Gert and Uwe Tobias have created these woodcuts on paper based on many elements from their Transylvanian national costume. This I only found read after I had been totally captured by the beautiful balance of weight and construction of these figures. They were mechanical yet full of character, mischief and charm.

nostalgia

I took a trip back to my childhood for a personal project and this was one of my more successful experiments-rephotographing as accurately as I could photographs from when I was five years old.  I think the comparisons are especially spooky because not much in my home has changed. 

Durham Lumiere festival 2011

Sadly I didn't manage to actually see witness the Lumiere Festival in Durham, i was one weekend too lat.e However after been told of the beautiful things that had gone on by my brother, I checked it out on the internet. Incredible illustration by projection artist Ross Ashton covered Durham Cathedral. It was imagery drawn from the Lindesfarne Gospels and inside the cathedral itself.

But it wasn't just the Cathedral that was illuminated, all over Durham there were light instillations beaming far and wide through the darkness of the small city by many different artists.

Walter Hood lit up the entire forest that runs alongside the River Wear.
Verity Quinne and bethan Maddocks created banners inspired by Durhams mining industry illuminating Durhams history in neon light.

In contrast there are installations that illuminate the present. I love this idea of a group from Belgium to visualise the communication and information passed across Durham when electromagnetic waves are transmitted. Through infrared rays, Binary Waves capture the information and turn it into a light, sound and colour displayed on fourty panels in a wave determined by the mirco-events.

These are just a few of 35 light installations displayed all around Durham.
Check out their website to see them all. I'm just so impressed by the range of ideas and innovative visuals that lit up the skies. I'm certainly not missing that next year.

http://www.lumieredurham.co.uk/programme/installations/les-voyageurs-(the-travellers)/

more synesthesia-i can't get enough

I've already blogged a bit on synesthesia but to continue this interest, here is a video my friend steffan linked to me, a beautiful and fantastically imaginative way of trying to reproduce/explain/show synesthesia-almost a contradictory task to do using all our senses. I would love to know what a person with severe synesthesia thinks of it, could they totally relate to it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHnnGHgeyC0