'Record' Project: Video

After my video from the journey while I was away, I wanted to film a journey back home. I started filming my bus to college in the same way, but I split it up into sections. Mainly because the first part was so boring!




You can see that this is just trees, it's interesting for a short time but after that I don't think it really works very well. I wanted to get more windy roads and people like I had before.


I picked up filming again when I know there were going to be more houses and people and generally people moving around. I much prefer this.




I did enjoy this, however as I do this journey all the time, it wasn't really as exciting as filming somewhere different was. Personally I find myself not being able to engage as much as I would had it been somewhere else. I'm still glad I made the films but for future reference I think i'll try and step more out of my comfort zone.

Fine Art: Brief part 3: Artist Research.

As the last part of our brief we were told to find artists that use walking as part of their practice. After going on my walk as part of the task I understand how inspiring they can be when you set yourself various tasks, there is a lot you can work around.

The first artist I looked at was Francis Alys. The majority of his works incorporate/are based around walking. However, my favourite was 'The Collector'. In this piece he has taken a magnetic 'dog' object for a walk round the city, and on the way it picks up stray bits of metal/rubbish.



The next artist I came across was Tom Stone, who uses walking as a creative process in many of his works. For example, in this piece 'Anyone for a walk?' he left his house and wandered around carrying a sign that said 'Anyone for a walk?', I like this as it's really inclusive and not something he can entirely control. By inviting people in, he gives people the opportunity to change/shape the outcome of the walk/piece. He took one polaroid on the walk.

The last artist I looked at was Tim Edgar, who uses photography to document small walks. In particular I looked at a series of photos titled 'Nature Trail". I love that there is nothing that massively sets these photos apart, they are literally a visual documentation of a journey. While it may not seem there is much going on, each photo has a little quirk to it, something unusual or interesting. I enjoyed looking through this set, because as there is no narrative, you are left to piece the journey together yourself -to try and fit together these quirks and finds and create your own image of the walk.