upon reflection on the whole idea of blogging i am still in the same mind as i was when i started. i do not like it. i feel it is just another pointless exercise that does not help me in any way. i know that after this module i will never use this blog again or even look at it, it will be come just another tiny speck floating around in cyberspace gatering computer generated dust as if in a muesum. if i was really into blogging, i could probably read some really interesting one and send them a link to mine blah blah blah blah. im just more a fan of going somewhere and seeing a person face to face. blogging is just the same as these social networking site it just becomes a fake way to fool people into thinking they have friends or somehow glorify their ideas. doing a blog within the group seems a time wasting exercise, whilst i find it good thinking about audiences, i can just talk to my peers instead of staying silent all day and them going home and telling them through my blog. i shall just tell them then and talk to them in person, if i forget something, i wont blog them to tell it ill ring them or tell them next time. why should i expect a random person or even my peers to look at a random piece of information ive put on the internet when i dont even look at it.

the toy car that i came across is still in my possesion. i toyed around with a few ideas, if you will excuse the pun and used it as a aid toward other mobile gallerys. its image and sence of importance is quite overwhelming. it screams at you to do something with it. the reason it has been relatively left alone for the time being is because it is simply the wrong material for me right now. i am working with natural materials and a natural material it is not!. after playing around with adding structures to it and adapting its use from quite a formal gallery with images hanging it and parading round the streets to getting in and just being part of it. i think to most peopke though the best thing to do with it is absolutly nothing. it could quite easily hold its own as a sculpture or readymade object in a contemporary gallery. i think that on its own it is headed in the same direction that my work is going at the moment. along the lines of institutional theory. it can work perfectly well on its own and is in many ways against the gallery or opposed to it, but cannot be appreciated or its brilliance realise without being put into a gallery. not that im saying my work is brilliant or anywhere near as good as a red and yellow push car.

this is an image of my final piece for the exhibition at the studio.

i have chosen to dysplay the gallery on a floating plinth so that it is not coming out of anything but a item to eb looked at as it is, on its own.

by my own belife and rules, this is the first gallery i ever bought with art work courtesy of Rory Mcbeth. Rory sold me the tree as he belived that he owned it and as the gallery produces the work, the work is the tree and the tree is the gallery than he is resposible for the work.

as my belief in the gallery grows and grows it makes me think of the boundarys of belief. with mine it has certain boundary that are specific to me as.

the tree is the gallery

the gallery makes the work

the work is the tree

i have got to this conclusion through simple logical steps and belive it completly.

it have prompted some other questions which i this have been resolved

if the tree has been cut then it is already belongs to someone. if i find someone with the beleif that it is their gallery then i can buy it off of them.

if the tree has not been cut then it can be claimed buy anyone who belives that it is their gallery.

i currently own six gallery is a park in oxford.

whilst looking at my mobile galleries i decided to strip them down to the core and just look at the materials used to make them as this is what interested me in the first place. looking at the really interesting found pieces of wood. after casting them and making print from them i realised that it wasnt the look of them or the material they were but what they actually were to me. each piece of wood each bit represented mobile gallery.
i managed to get hold of a section of tree. this tree is a mobile gallery, not a repreentation or a metaphore. it is a mobile gallery. i completly belive it.

after finishing this mobile gallery and photographing in in an instilation space, a gallery setting i have decided that i dont not want to take any of them outside, this i feel would just be too obvious and pointless, they would not reach the right audience and would just defeat their purpose. i do not want them to be a cube in a cube and i dont think they come across as this but i now that their not going out. this is the last mobile gallery and will be destroyed along with the others, i am destructing them all so i can move on to the next part of my work, i belive it is all part of a process, as at the moment i am documenting and casting the wood used in making them, the progression is naturall and all nessesary.

this is one of the final images from my elective, visualisation and illustration, with martin hill. i really enjoyed this elective and found it gave me a real boost towards my studio practice. the main positive outcome i took from this was that is is not always the product you made but perhaps the documentation of it that has more significance. i based my movie still on a road movie, creating a vanishing point villiage and road scene, naming the film Jesus the mexican boy. jesus pronounced e-zus as an authentic mexican name. stil focusing on the act of making within these works but looking more in to a flow of production and how quikly it can take your work somewhere new and often for the better,i find that this image is still in the same series of works that i am currently working on and has the same meaning and motives behind it but is a better quality and stronger.

Late post, i want to the grand theatre and saw Chorus
"The engulfing new creation, called Chorus, will occupy the whole space with light, pendulums and a soundtrack by Mira Calix. The underside of the bridge between the Opera North Centre and the Howard Assembly Room will also be lit in a representation of the musical scale, as people cross the bridge"- leeds grand theatre
personally i thought it was brilliant, allthough i found it without explination i felt that it diddnt need one, from the moment you walked in it just had you in a trance, the scale and function was totally different from what i expected but the overwhelming effect it had upon you was remarkable. it had such a presance within the room, in both sight and sound. so well constructed and composed it seemed such a intricatly organised collection of mechanisums, light and sound, but on a grand scale. it was well worth a look, it held a lot of mystery which was great and left you quiet and mellow.

I have in my posession a childs toy car, as seen in the image. i originally wanted it for its wheels so i could continue making mobile gallerys but the longer i look at it the more potential i see in it. i think it has an almost iconic british image to it and i dont know wether i want to use it or not, whether it be as a vessel or a ready made, it seems to hold so much imigary with it, would painting it or removing parts just deem it useless?is it just enough to appreciate the asthetics of it?

went to the closing yesterday of the collaborative project 195 miles (we all have our limits) at PSL leeds. a show based on collaboration between leeds and london artists. the show had its name changed at the last minuet as the artist felt that they hadnt collaborated and so changed the sign as you walk in to the show in to a giant anogramme. The act of doing so was enough collaboration for them to have completed the breif though. the exhibition itself was really very good. the space itself was very well used, great space and atmosphere. i particually enjoyed the taste of fog machine and dust floor. really great amount of people buzzing around and the artists themselfs were very open and approchable. great work to go along with the vibe, i particually like the sculptual works and the way in which you can see the progress in some of the works.

http://www.projectspaceleeds.org.uk/195_miles_unid0fc3_page.aspx

I have been working on my project based on building impromtue and movable galleries and exhibition spaces, this my first on is called the wondow gallery(based in the studio space at leeds college of art and design) for the obvious reason that you view the work through a window. the galleries are to express an enjoyment for making and an almost safe haven for dysplaying anything that is wanted. I feel that the spaces i make have to be more movable and be able to get out to the public so i am going to endevour to make a portable gallery. i want to know what the effect is of having something that isnt the white cube we expect and in the place we expect it. After holding an opening for a small exhibition i realised that once you have entered the homemade gallery you yourself become part of the work. There have been many mobile galleries before and many of which have been sucessfull, in some cases purely to make art more public, in other they took on a more protestual stance. in my case i just want a chance to put some art out there and to tour it, only in the sence that it is mobile. i think the end result for this may be the documentation of it. of course it rases many questions.
does the quality of the build have to be specific?
are the viewers more important than the work?
how important is the placement of the gallerys?