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Hi I'm rubbish at Tumblr but I feel as though I'm slowly getting there. In the following months more work shall be posted and it won't all be from instagram, I promise.
A selection of my latest work
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My latest work. Was originally a throw away idea, but have since realised it offers some interesting perspectives and perhaps has more value than first thought.
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2Wall Sculpture I
Skeleton of a sculpture. Prefer the bones to the outcome.
Cycling around the World with @roblutter
In 2011, Rob Lutter (@roblutter) said goodbye to his family, friends and life in London and set off on a 30,000 km cycling tour around the world. He took only a tent, bike, SLR camera and iPhone with him.
Four months later while hiding from a cold winter in a Turkish hostel, Rob discovered Instagram. “Until that point I’d been shooting only on my Canon. I’d missed so many shots because I was too slow to grab the SLR or because the subject was gone before I could get it out,” he says. “As I waited for spring in that hostel, with thousands of photos to go through, I realised that it was going to take a seriously long time to get these pictures out to people. Then I came across Instagram.”
When spring came and Rob hit the road again, he began using Instagram to share scenes from his travels. He biked out of Europe, across the Middle East, up and over the Himalayas, and through the deserts of Western China. During the hardest parts of his journey, Rob says the Instagram community helped him make it through. “The support from people around the world was incredible. Messages of encouragement would arrive every other day and there were times when I’d cycle longer and further just to reach a town in an attempt to get some Wi-Fi, to connect to Instagram! It became a positive obsession of mine.”
Two years into his journey, Rob has cycled over 15,000 km, crossed 21 borders, and raised £2000 for Water Aid. He’s now in Hong Kong preparing to head to Australia for the next leg of the trip. To tune into the rest of his journey, be sure to follow him on Instagram @roblutter and visit his website.
Andy Goldsworthy’s Winding Stone Wall
Want to see more photos of Andy Goldsworthy’s outdoor sculptures? Browse the location pages for his “Spire,” “Wood Line” and “Five Men, Seventeen Days, Fifteen Boulders, One Wall” works, and photos of his artwork from around the world by browsing the #AndyGoldsworthy hashtag.
Renowned artist and environmentalist Andy Goldsworthy is known primarily for his meticulous and fleeting works of art created from natural materials such as leaves, icicles, driftwood and snow.
While most are only able to experience Goldsworthy’s art through the photos that document each work’s brief existence, he has also built several large, permanent creations at sites around the world.
One such installation is a long and winding stone wall at the Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York, named “Five Men, Seventeen Days, Fifteen Boulders, One Wall.” The wall is one of the most popular sculptures in the center’s 500-acre sculpture garden. Explore Goldsworthy’s wall, along with other works, at the Center’s location page.
comfy couch
chicken wire, soil, and moss/other vegetation
exploring means of sustainable community and sparking conversation
Crafting The Encompassing Recidivates
Crafting The Encompassing Recidivates
Towards the beginning of the year (2012), I gained an interest in articles surrounding the furore over scientists decisions to create a more deadly strain of bird flu. Of course, the scientists in question weren’t intentionally creating deadlier diseases for the sake of creating said deadly diseases. They were of course creating them to understand the disease in question, and then attempt to find vaccinations and cures for them.
As with all things concerning British tabloids, the report on the case was largely sensationalised to create pandaemonium and fear in the public. Due to this there was a large mis-understanding and the public questioned the scientists motives for attempting the matter in the first place. There was a sense of ‘they’re just making it for the sake of making it’ or ‘because they can’. It was this mentality that captured my eye. It was the belief that the scientists would create something so deadly and sinister out of curiosity, rather than for genuine medical reasons, that I wanted to encompass this frame of mind in my own work.
Around this time I was also studying a diary on medieval cures and remedies by Samuel Pepys. In his time it could have been widely believed that the ingredients he chose could in fact cure the ailments in question. In reality we know that they were probably old fish wives tales and urban legends that he’d gathered together. There was a sense of naivety surrounding the ingredients as I read through, a naivety I had hoped to replicate in my next piece of work.
Crafted Ingredients
Combining both the mentality of the British Publics ‘They’re making it because they can’ attitude, as well as the naivety found in Pepys’s remedies, I had my intentions of making my own ‘remedies’.
However, instead of gathering ingredients to form remedies for illness’s and disease, I would in fact gather the components of what supposedly causes each illness for the reasoning purely ‘because I could’.
In the spirit of Pepys’s remedies, the ingredients I chose for the chosen illness’s were loosely factual. By this, I mean rather than find credible sources that provide information on food, ingredients and other household items that cause cancers and illness’s. I’d research articles that speculate as to what may cause illness’s, ones specifically designed to cause panic and fear. For example, if I found an article linking chocolate to pancreatic cancer, it would go in the ingredients list for ‘pancreatic cancer’ and so forth.
I was no longer creating remedies, they became ‘Recidivates’.
Overall 50 jars of diseases and illnesses were created. Here are a select few:
Ingredients:
Breast Cancer
House Cleaning Products
Air Freshener
Alcohol
Fat
Antiperspirants
Chip Fat
Bowel Cancer
Tobacco
Alcohol
Sugar
Red Meat
Constipation solution
Heart Disease
Fish
Eggs
Coconut Oil
Vegtable Oil
Red Meat
Poultry Skin
Alcohol
Sugary Drink
Margarine
Bread
Corn Flakes
Dementia
Lead
Pesticides
Alcohol
Tobacco
Fat
Dehydration Solution
Motor Oil
Urinary Tract Infection
Tea
Coffee
Sugary Drink
Sweetener
Chocolate
Processed food
Diary product
Fat
Skin Cancer
Coal
Pitch
Asphalt
Paraffin Wax
Motor Oil
Mineral Oil
Liver Disease
Alcohol
Fat
Tobacco
Diabetes Solution
Hives
Egg
Yeast
Chestnut
bananas
Kiwi
Avocado
Chocolate
Tomato
Cheese
Milk
Pork
Spice
Beetroot
Polio
Sink Water
Toilet Water
The process was a largely unpleasant experience, but the results was worth enduring the procedure of combining the ingredients. Isolating individual jars revealed that the concoction themselves replicated how you’d imagine the ailments to look. Each becoming a representation of their respectful disease.
Exhibiting In ‘Precious’ Exhibition
It wasn’t until the jars, entitled ‘50’, was displayed in our art collectives exhibition ‘Precious’ that you could fully appreciate the ‘remedies’.
The setting was a basement. A scattering of jars strewn across an individual isolated room, seemingly placed at random. The audience was welcomed to investigate the jars, lit up by candle light to highlight the independent pieces in an uncanny light.
The installation was largely welcomed by the audience, on the other hand I overheard one or two gasp in disgust, alas this is the reaction a piece like this should cause. A subject matter like this should cause interest, awe and disdain in equal measures. A concept the public hasn’t seen the last of.
