Friday 10 April 2009
Wednesday 12 March 2008
Seminal Text
Sunday 9 September 2007
Thursday 30 August 2007
MLOR
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http://karmahgeddon.blogspot.com/
Uses/Abuses/Successes/Failiures
Uses/Abuses/Successes/Failiures
I just feel like crying
Dissatisfaction
Stasis
Stillness
I could drive over to your house
Disconnection
Intermittent messages
Static -
Might just as well pull over and park
Mirror signal manoeuvre
Pull out
Pull away
Collision
or not -
Flying on your motorcycle
Taking notes
Like the Metatron
Could be a make of car
The Mazda Metatron
The Ford Despair
The Opel Mantra
The Daihatsu Stupid.
Dissatisfaction
Stasis
Stillness
I could drive over to your house
Disconnection
Intermittent messages
Static -
Might just as well pull over and park
Mirror signal manoeuvre
Pull out
Pull away
Collision
or not -
Flying on your motorcycle
Taking notes
Like the Metatron
Could be a make of car
The Mazda Metatron
The Ford Despair
The Opel Mantra
The Daihatsu Stupid.
Wednesday 29 August 2007
r/r/p
REJECTED/RE-COLLECTED/PROJECTED
A small series of manipulated family photographs
In essence all of my work begins with reference to personal and family history -
Sometimes overt -
Sometimes more opaque or obscure -
For me memory is a vital resource, even though it is often unreliable and fragmentary -
Obscured by the clouds of time -
For all of us the family photographic archive is a window on the past and a key to remembering - Proof that we exist and are connected -
Linked to the flow of time -
As recordings of family events, usually recalled as happy occasions, birthdays, weddings, a new car and the like, photographs serve as an adjunct to memory - Communal experience of ritual and tradition - Collective memory -
Helping us to own the past -
Often these images are captured with haste, quickly, before the candles are blown out or the smile vanishes. Subsequently they are often awkwardly framed, badly lit - Off kilter - For me this adds another dimension which, in these images, I am attempting to emphasise by selecting even tighter croppings and bringing attention to hidden or easily ignoreable details on the edges, marginalised - Exploring a barely extant landscape with indistinct tools - Faulty memory and the fact that I did not take the photographs in the first place -
Rejected: Through forgetting -
Re-collected: Through remembering -
Projected: Through editing and recombining -
Simon Hope
August 2007
http://www.cac.org.mk/capital/Projects/Slavica/default.asp
http://www.tau.ac.il/arts/projects/PUB/assaph-art/assaph3/articles_assaph3/10wigoder.pdf
http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/beecroft_parker/
A small series of manipulated family photographs
In essence all of my work begins with reference to personal and family history -
Sometimes overt -
Sometimes more opaque or obscure -
For me memory is a vital resource, even though it is often unreliable and fragmentary -
Obscured by the clouds of time -
For all of us the family photographic archive is a window on the past and a key to remembering - Proof that we exist and are connected -
Linked to the flow of time -
As recordings of family events, usually recalled as happy occasions, birthdays, weddings, a new car and the like, photographs serve as an adjunct to memory - Communal experience of ritual and tradition - Collective memory -
Helping us to own the past -
Often these images are captured with haste, quickly, before the candles are blown out or the smile vanishes. Subsequently they are often awkwardly framed, badly lit - Off kilter - For me this adds another dimension which, in these images, I am attempting to emphasise by selecting even tighter croppings and bringing attention to hidden or easily ignoreable details on the edges, marginalised - Exploring a barely extant landscape with indistinct tools - Faulty memory and the fact that I did not take the photographs in the first place -
Rejected: Through forgetting -
Re-collected: Through remembering -
Projected: Through editing and recombining -
Simon Hope
August 2007
http://www.cac.org.mk/capital/Projects/Slavica/default.asp
http://www.tau.ac.il/arts/projects/PUB/assaph-art/assaph3/articles_assaph3/10wigoder.pdf
http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/beecroft_parker/
Friday 24 August 2007
Tuesday 21 August 2007
Saturday 18 August 2007
Saturday 11 August 2007
Obsessed!!! I'll say!!!!!
1/3 scale Ferarri 312 PB working scale model
http://www.fineartmodels.com/pages/product.asp?content_area=6&sub_area=139&product_area=139
http://www.fineartmodels.com/pages/product.asp?content_area=6&sub_area=139&product_area=139
Monday 6 August 2007
Pool car
Nissan Primera 2.0 SLX
J reg, 86,000 miles MOT til Feb 08 Taxed til end Aug.
The last piece of the carculture jigsaw is in place. Now I can go driving!
J reg, 86,000 miles MOT til Feb 08 Taxed til end Aug.
The last piece of the carculture jigsaw is in place. Now I can go driving!
Sunday 5 August 2007
Friday 20 July 2007
Simons Garage (open context)
Toy garage made for me by my grandad Albert Edwin Todd (who was woodbutcher in residence at Woolies in Brum many moons ago) and given to me as a christmas present when I was about 7 years old.
The photograph is a reference to a cassette recording of my brother singing Away in a Manger from about the same time recorded at Nan & Grandads in Lincoln. One of two pics of myself and my brother with the first line from the carol written on tape covering our mouths. (I keep copies of these images in my wallet at all times)
The car is a 1/18 scale Mk II Jaguar which I bought for my Dad.
He had a Daimler 250 (Reg: POB 8G) at the start of the 1970s and over the years I have tried to create a collection for him of cars that he owned (including the silver Capri and a black Mini Van) which I shall now continue to do for myself.
The original car was brown and this Maisto model in Old English white was the closest I could get.
I'm intending to renovate the garage at some point and repaint it in its original colours of claret and blue. I don't know why Bert chose this colour scheme but it is highly appropriate that I now have a view from my studio window of the Aston Villa football ground.
I have used the garage in many ways over the years, repainting it and using for photographic and sculptural purposes:
A bit of fotoshoppe from a couple of years ago.
So, I'm trying to track down the lettering Bert used to make the sign "SIMONS GARAGE" it was something like this: http://www.alphabetsigns.com/letters.html but if anyone knows the whereabouts of an old set (in Helvetica font) please let me know.
Monday 16 July 2007
Wednesday 11 July 2007
Work in progress
In storage
Thursday 5 July 2007
Monday 18 June 2007
Sunday 17 June 2007
Sunday 3 June 2007
Friday 25 May 2007
Night Rider
Sunday 20 May 2007
Wednesday 16 May 2007
untitled
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Tell all the people
in their cars
to go home & love their loved ones
There’s no recommended daily dose
for hydrocarbons
Praise the Lord
& pass the paracetamol
How do you resist the irresistable?
Mom & Dad are welded
to the telly
in the living room
Praying that their lucky dip
gets lucky
Praise the Lord
& pass the paracetamol
How do you escape the inescapable?
How do you resist the irresistable?
Tell al the residents
in St Cements
they’ll soon be
with their loved ones
Waiting for their turn to hit the highway
Praise the Lord
& pass the paracetamol
How do you explain the inexplicable?
How do you escape the inescapable?
How do you resist the irresistable?
Tell all the people
in their cars
to go home & love their loved ones
There’s no recommended daily dose
for hydrocarbons
Praise the Lord
& pass the paracetamol
How do you resist the irresistable?
Mom & Dad are welded
to the telly
in the living room
Praying that their lucky dip
gets lucky
Praise the Lord
& pass the paracetamol
How do you escape the inescapable?
How do you resist the irresistable?
Tell al the residents
in St Cements
they’ll soon be
with their loved ones
Waiting for their turn to hit the highway
Praise the Lord
& pass the paracetamol
How do you explain the inexplicable?
How do you escape the inescapable?
How do you resist the irresistable?
Friday 11 May 2007
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