First post of 2010

Hello everyone and a happy new year to y'all.

Well the christmas break was quite an eventful one to say the least. Keeping related to the sky did anyone see the partial lunar eclipse and the blue moon on new years eve?

Now during my break whilst contemplating my work, I found myself disliking this project. For some reason I just can't get my head into at all, I think the subject matter is just to "Astronomical" for me at this time. So to take my mind from it I went over to the liverpool with my camera to take so photographs as it was a beautiful sunny day. Little did I know that I would find some subject matter that would tickle my fancy.

As I was walking around looking up at the sky (like I usually do) when I noticed a massive coil of light on the side of a building. I quickly took some photographs of the occurence and moved on down the street. Soon enough I was spotting all of these different light shapes on buildings which I had never seen or noticed before. I became very excited; ideas began to run to me from all directions.

I spent the whole day searching for these light anomalies. I came home and upload my photos to my computer and scanned through them. I found that the light streaks and shapes looked almost painted on to the buildings. I really like the melding of the conformist architecture and the somewhat fluidity of the light in the photographs.

I have made an executive decision to drop the project of the light and stars and focus solely on the light content of the project.

Now I will be renaming the project and posting up the photographs that changed my mind. This might seem like a big leap from what I was doing with the stars, but it is not. I was playing with light then however it was aimless playing, now I have a centre something to dig my teeth into.

Project and Intent

Now that I have found my focus, I intend to further my research into "incidental light" and painting with light in photography. I will go about this by taking photos of numerous "incidental light" occurences around the city of liverpool. Furthermore, I will look into artists such as Michael Bosanko and Joost van Santen.

I would like to try and create incidental light formations within buildings to see how it transforms the space, and how people interact with it.

I'll keep you all posted once I have enough photographs and spoke to my tutors about it.

Mark