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My Field Notes
As an artist who carefully observes and documents subjective and fictive aspects of my travel call their sketch book and visual research 'field notes'?
My Field Notes will include my photographs of places I have visited, notes and sketches, but also source material I have found in Op shops and flea markets, such as a collection of vintage tourist postcards, non-fiction books with printed colour reproductions of iconic natural landscapes, retro urban architecture and old city guides featuring hand-drawn maps and antiquated printing techniques.
Recurrent motifs and themes have emerged in my art over the past few years as I've travelled, lived and worked in different European cities. Reflecting on the cyclic nature of travel, of adventures and returns, I intend to fragment, layer and sequence images in order to create an open, non-linear narrative structure. I plan to show the results of my idiosyncratic process of selecting, reorganising and reproducing found images and explore the effect this has on memory making of places and people real and imagined. I'm exploring the notion of field work in places I may have visited vicariously or virtually.
Why? Since attending the Transmediale Deep North conference in 2009 in Berlin, I have been keen to contribute artwork to the kind of cross-disciplinary dialogue that Open Fields proposes. The Deep North conference and exhibition highlighted many successful collaborations between various disciplines and backgrounds- artists, indigenous communities, scientists, programmers etc., which aim to explore environmental, social, technological perspectives and possibilities for the next hundred years.
If there are opportunities for collaboration or volunteering I'd be happy to help out. I would like to display my books at Serial Space, however I'm open to other display or presentation options that are available. My work could also tie into the Rizzeria zine machine at Open Fields.
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