During this project i have spent lots of time writing, mostly exploring ways i can use my own experience and memories in relation to this project. After using the imagery of milk bottles in my previous drawings i wanted to see how this could look in a video setting. I’ve also been thinking about memories and how they can be altered or forgotten, after speaking with my dad about my childhood i realised there is a lot that i don’t remember or things that i have sugar coated. i visualised this with written memories on cloth and washed them away with milk (the most recognised source of nurture).
I think that this has strong links to the theme and can be explored a lot more. i particularly like the idea of washing away of something and leaching into the milk, perhaps I could look at washing the weaving to connect it to some other work. i think the softness and subtlety of the words through milk looks really interesting but is perhaps just me trying to find another was to hide my writing. i love the way that words look but maybe if i lack confidence in my writing i could just pick specific and significant words to explore the visual aspect of them. I have written up a few bits of writing in word to see how presenting them as something by themselves gives me any ideas.
I played around with spacing and line, to see how it could affect the words. Something about a solid bit of writing feels too obvious or not very thought through. Although, i love reading other people’s writings, poems, stories because of the intimacy you can feel from it, i don’t enjoy reading these bits of writing. I think instead of over analysing the content of it, i need to look at them from a more visual perspective. After joining Neil Nodzaks sequential art workshop, i am beginning to consider how i could look at exploring the visual aspects of it. i also am starting to see a link that could happen between video and sequential work, i will start by creating work out of the writing and then see how it translates into video.
Abigail yeats CAP 