Digital Art, Graveyards, Biodiversity #30Works30Days
This is the initial process work for a project with a working title of ‘Closed Loop Production’ or something like that. At this stage, the process doesn’t want an explanation, it exists separate from words, and that is totally fine. Making will tell. Digital 3D technology will be among the core tools I’ll use to explore interconnectivity.
Projecting onto a blank slate or a white wall gallery is interesting. How to convey an idea? A quiet space; whispers. Small things get lost in the noise. Things leak in from outside. There are also the things you take in there with you.
So I went to a cemetery. St Leonards Church in Hollington has a beautiful graveyard sign-posted as Church in the Wood.
I like the idea of viewing time backwards, the past there to see, the future approaching unseen. I want to find the stories revealed by the cemetery, and the headstones, and to use 360 photography to explore the spaces, catch the views glimpsed and embrace the `in-between time’ when the research becomes the art.
Photography changes the way we think of light, shadow and time. Digital spaces extend this. To be a videographer in your own digital space and break the metaphor. The complexity of a 360-degree 3D form is not always suited to photogrammetry. I find the breakdown of the modelling intriguing.
Interesting artefacts are created as a side effect of the production process. It becomes part of the story of the exclusivity of the process artefact but the inclusivity of death. The marks and patterns left by the tools of making are artefacts only seen by an exclusive group.
Older cemeteries are time capsules of complex interconnected biodiversity. Beneath the ground, the soil biomass is a 4D complex interconnected web of life, for so long reduced to dirt.
#30Works30Days, a period of intense work that helped to kick start this project. For me, it provided a period of focus and a commitment to explore, complete and exhibit. I intend to continue this work to explore interconnectivity, biodiversity and the complexity of the everyday … however, I am still working on a title.
