Cultural Codes

I've started to import hours and hours of footage I captured in Sri Lanka. In terms of the content - I think there is some really interesting documentation of religious traditions and cultural identity within different Sinhalese communities. I'm going to explore ways in which I could use it for an installation work/ video performance piece. 

 

   

Body As Site

Me and my flatmate went to work on this little number. Hah good times. 

Cultural Representation

Selection of images from traveling & working around Sri Lanka in Jan/Feb 2007. 

"There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life

 than in all the philosophies". 

- Raoul Vaneigem (1934), Belgian Situationist Philosopher. 

Digital Plates & Textures

Here's some extracts of an animation I was working on today in Motion - computer crapped out halfway though so I'm gonna have to re-install it, ah bad times! 

Rock My World

Here's a few examples of some light forms i've been messing around with - creating miniature landscape formations out of man-made objects & materials. 

 
     

    

David Batchelor

David Batchelor's sculptural works are based on the experience of colour found in the modern city.

A piece that I came across - 'Found Monochromes Of London'  where the artist hunted for + photographed blank rectangular white panels within the city. The artist wanted to create a work that would show the monochrome to be part of our everyday lives - compared to opposing views found within high abstract art. These panels that would normally be overlooked but instead become fascinating miniature voids contrasted against the highly dense background of the city.

With his other works he explores the artificial use of colour by using brightly coloured light boxes and neon. He uses various types of cheap mass-produced plastics to create extravagant chandeliers and light sculptures that direct pure, highly saturated colour into the space that it occupies. 

Brick Lane Remix 1

Disco Mecanique