Monoprinting & Dirt

Testament to my camera's weirdness...

Harry in our hotel room dans le Cambridge:

Me in art studio yesterday:

I quite enjoy the shaky, unintentional picture molestation. It reminds me of all manner of beautiful, accidental, characteristically 'lomo' photography.

 Examples of 'typically' lomo images pulled from google:

They have the shaky image contrast and simultaneously vibrant & washed out colours - how could I not love this? It's high art grunge <3

Anyhow...

Following the trip to the geology rooms in Cambridge, I've been thinking more about incorporating worn   and aged aspects of natural phenomena - using fossils and fossilised forms to create that foetid, decrepit, long-lost, neglected and more literally physical ways of showing these things...

Fossil forms:

Basic 2 layer screen print of forms:

Monoprints of fossil forms - these have a much nicer and more appropriate texture:

With thoughts on Nedjar's horrid dirt dolls and Gormely's fluid, emotive, textured drawings:

Dirt paintings of figures:

Owing to weird camera. this dirt painting of the kelp girl laying at the bottom of the kelp forest hasn't shown up too well:

Paper soaking overnight in muddy water:

Looking at the marks on the paper - like fossils etc:

Curiously relevant to my interests:

http://cursednessanddelight.blogspot.com/

Cambridge ♥

I spent Friday and Saturday in Cambridge; it was Anglia Ruskins art school open day... My camera's gone strange - or at least appeared to the other day while in Cambridge - as such, I didn't take many pictures because I wasn't sure they wouldn't be completey terrible. But they've bizzarely and pleasantly come out well. Almost entirely reference shots from a geology museum in a University of Cambridge college, but I honestly could not tell you which one.

By Clare Nicholls:

Her profile thing is here: http://www.cambridgecrafts.co.uk/artists/ceramics/clare__tottem/