Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard

A tutor suggested i look at their work while i was doing an AfterEffects course in the first half of 2007. What can I say, I fell in love with their work. And later went on to participate in their "Make me yours again."

Their work captures an amazing frankness and honesty, in my eyes it manages to examine exactly what makes us human. The slow interview style about the songs you would or have chosen for your lover ingeniously focus and bring forth the deepest of emotions easily and effortlessly, it makes people speak candidly on camera, and its magical to watch.

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Natura Morta

June 2007

This is the conceptual statement for this project, click on the presentation board to see more details.

From My work

I identified with memento mori (vanitas) idea of being reminded of proximity of death in order to live for the moment. And investigated surrealism because I strongly agree with its openness to the idea that there is more to reality then what is immediately apparent.

Gerhard Richter caught my eye because of his use of more then one photo to describe one place, composition or situation which I believe is more accurate in communicating reality, and something I cannot get away from doing.

The design takes influence in use of a double-storey space from traditional church design, as they have the same goal of creating awe and look to have contrast between dark and light areas. I aspired to have as little light as possible in the composition to add drama and to draw attention to thresholds.

“Small receptive fields are more delicate in detail; large receptive fields entail less resolution ... in that way can awareness be multiplied.” – Gerhard Richter

Hence use of small unpredictable windows. These promote quite a dark, protected space the retractable stair which can hide and cut off the artist’s studio is an expression of this “Earthy womb” (– in regards to a project by Bemé and Dellinger).