THE FROCK IN THE ROOM...
The thinking process behind the Frock in the Room is documented in the sketchbook videos above, but a common thread running through it was the dilemma of whether the images here are documenting a physical piece of work, or whether these images become the work. Just another example of the ways Covid 19 has impacted on our course.
I would never call myself a photographer, I am an artist who uses photography as an integral part of my practice and in the end I see these images as documents, a pause in the process, a visual reflection of a work in progress. Maybe this is the positive aspect of lockdown, everything is in progress at the moment and the restrictions imposed on me physically have allowed for greater experimentation within the work in areas I wouldn't have considered under normal circumstances. Having the room to work in has been an incredibly positive experience, allowing me to work with materials in a different way, on a bigger scale, work through ideas physically, not just on paper. It has been a space to just be in after a bad day, as I would sometimes do at Grays, just be in the darkroom there and forget about the outside world.
I would never call myself a photographer, I am an artist who uses photography as an integral part of my practice and in the end I see these images as documents, a pause in the process, a visual reflection of a work in progress. Maybe this is the positive aspect of lockdown, everything is in progress at the moment and the restrictions imposed on me physically have allowed for greater experimentation within the work in areas I wouldn't have considered under normal circumstances. Having the room to work in has been an incredibly positive experience, allowing me to work with materials in a different way, on a bigger scale, work through ideas physically, not just on paper. It has been a space to just be in after a bad day, as I would sometimes do at Grays, just be in the darkroom there and forget about the outside world.