Phootshoot 2

From London to Worcester 

Text to Speech

After writing up a grey description of one of my photos, I asked my fellow arty type best friend Leah to record herself reading it, in one take. I chose to ask her as I wanted someone who hasn't seen the image, to look at how successful (or not) I was in communicating visual information through words.

With the idea of presenting the photo as a sound work, rather than image, I edited the sound clip and added a white space, with the intention of it blending into the white walls of the gallery space.

This was the result:

I then experimented with how tone of voice and emotion affects the communication. To do this I used google translate TTS, to create a flat, monotonous and continuous voice.

Digital Collages

Forgotten posts...

Whilst typing up the notes from the crit I realised I hadn't actually posted the work I was presenting. I have been digitally manipulating photos relating to street photography, layering them with my paintings on acrylic. Some of them seemed to 'work', or 'do something' for me, with others not so much.

     

Bringing in photography

Street Photography and it's place in the world

Another type of art that came to mind when reading the introduction to 'How to See the World' was street photography, and the importance of it to modern day memories, as well as it's place within social media. Whilst reading I was reminded of an exhibition I saw in August by famous street photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. 

A photo posted by Rosie (@rsprcy) on Aug 5, 2016 at 8:22am PDT

...but that was ages ago...from this I was inspired to begin to take my camera out, taking photos of mundane situations and surfaces that I found interesting. This links to my current practise through my use of texture and exploring space. I am thinking about using photoshop to combine both my physical paintings with photography to create a photoessay- linking it to the subject/object grid given to us.