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Dear Nicola
I'm John - the artist who has chosen to work with your family story as the basis for my project.
I decided to create an alphabet of images based upon your story. I have tried to find either a event from your story or an idea for each letter of the alphabet. If I was forced to define myself as an artist I would have to call myself a sculptor, but at the same time there have always been a lot of other strands to my work, particularly with ideas like number series', mathematics and symbols. Lately however I've been doing quite a lot of work with alphabets and this is where this piece comes from.
I think for many artists the process of drawing often has a special place or significance, I think of it almost as a kind medatitive process. These images draw quite heavily on drawing. the general process is that I've started with a image of a letter of an alphabet and have then produced an image over the top of this using a mixture of drawing, paint, photography and collage, some of the images have then been further digitally manipulated.
I've set the piece up on this blog, the idea being that anybody can comment and respond, I thought that given our geographical situations this might be a good way to talk about the piece or anything else to do with the project.
I'm looking forward to talking with you.
Best wishes
John.
I'm John - the artist who has chosen to work with your family story as the basis for my project.
I decided to create an alphabet of images based upon your story. I have tried to find either a event from your story or an idea for each letter of the alphabet. If I was forced to define myself as an artist I would have to call myself a sculptor, but at the same time there have always been a lot of other strands to my work, particularly with ideas like number series', mathematics and symbols. Lately however I've been doing quite a lot of work with alphabets and this is where this piece comes from.
I think for many artists the process of drawing often has a special place or significance, I think of it almost as a kind medatitive process. These images draw quite heavily on drawing. the general process is that I've started with a image of a letter of an alphabet and have then produced an image over the top of this using a mixture of drawing, paint, photography and collage, some of the images have then been further digitally manipulated.
I've set the piece up on this blog, the idea being that anybody can comment and respond, I thought that given our geographical situations this might be a good way to talk about the piece or anything else to do with the project.
I'm looking forward to talking with you.
Best wishes
John.
3 Comments:
I think the idea of alphabets is really interesting. A friend of mine used to have a big etching of an alphabet on her wall.
All the letters of the alphabet were different things. If my memeory is right it had thinks like a zebra in the shape of a Z (somehow)and I rember letters made out of crumbling bits of masonry like piranesi drawings with Ivy drawn all over them.
By Anonymous, at 9:58 AM
Pictures and alphabets, towers and cemeteries – do you ever remember playing Oranges and Lemons when you were a child? What a sinister little game which ended with someone being beheaded – and it all takes on another surreal angle when you are child living far outside London and for whom St Clement’s and the Bells of Old Bailey mean nothing!
What I want to know is what do the bells of St Augustine say??
Oranges and lemons" say the Bells of St. Clement's
”You owe me five farthings" say the Bells of St. Martin's
”When will you pay me? say the Bells of Old Bailey
”When I grow rich” say the Bells of Shoreditch
”When will that be?" say the Bells of Stepney
”I do not know" say the Great Bells of Bow
Here comes a Candle to light you to Bed
Here comes a Chopper to Chop off your Head
Chip chop chip chop - the Last Man's Dead.
By Anonymous, at 10:38 AM
I would like to talk about the project online, perhaps the conversations are the pice of art themselves.
Nicola
nicola112358@gogglemail.com
By Nicola, at 12:24 PM
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