Project 214 by "Zagato"

Seminal Text

Back in '95 Heathcote Williams epic poem on the destructive powers of the automobile was a strong influence on my course work at Sutton College (C&G TV & Video )

Not recommended as holiday reading if you're travelling by car!

Anglia Estate

MLOR

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http://karmahgeddon.blogspot.com/

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.

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/

R/R/P 01

a small series of manipulated family photographs

Tiny CSI

Routine enquiries

Cigarbox Mini

fuzztone on utube

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CydR5uA3oBU

They don't make em like they used to.

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

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!

Azzurri Di Ripristino

Duwaynes visit to Italy in search of rare metal.

Road rage personified

Trouble on the flyover.

http://eschata.blogspot.com/2007/08/black-hole-of-criticism.html

Spectacular NASCAR pileup pix

http://freessourceinfo.org/nascarcrashes.aspx

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.

Dec 25th 1969

Junkyard Ford

Hot seat