Category Archives: projects

trust me, I’m an ordinal

by andreweason


trust me, I’m an ordinal, originally uploaded by aesop.

I’m working on a project with andrew Atkinson at the moment that seems to be about various subjects to do with space: its measurement, transgression, depiction, the social conventions that describe it, the ways in which it is transformed, compressed and folded. This fits in a lot with my "whistling Copse" series, which was about poaching and evidence, and with my "Hidden Fortress" idea, which is about, for want of a better description, ‘ghost-space". The idea of a space that is hidden, one that is RIGHT HERE, but unavailable, that is hiding behind the air.

We’re going to be working with images that work with or against photographic conventions, the various codes drawing has for space, and things like city codes, maps and stories, to investigate the sorts of spaces that are created by the intentions of another order of planning. For example, the forbidden spaces in the undergrowth beneath the elevated road, or the forbidden space created by the ownership of land. There are texts, too, underpinning things. We’ve yet to agree, but de Certeau and the acts of Enclosure, and stuff pertaining to the career of Robert Moses, the NY city planner, are all in our sights.

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Garden Design Application

by andreweason

Dear Lazyweb,

I wish someone would make a garden design program (a bit like Ikea’s kitchen design one, but simpler, and online),  that I could use to, um, design my garden. Just something to get the 2D scales right. I can imagine garden enthusiasts finding this a really interesting point around which to converge a forum and maybe some pictures of their efforts. Does something like this already exist?

Thankyou Lazyweb!

Rotten rotten

by andreweason

I went to print the cover for Turndust today to find that the print centre is closed for easter and my screen is locked away.-X-
I asked around for a key. -X-
I looked for a porter to ask for another key. -X-

I decided not to bother.

So I brought my prints home to work on them with rubber stamps instead. Let’s see if I can make a virtue out of necessity.

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Hidden Fortress

by andreweason

I had a dream about the phrase ‘Hidden Fortress‘ last night, where some kindly person was sightly annoyed with me for using the phrase because it had militaristic overtones. I think it’s also a Kurosawa movie.

Anyway it strikes me as a resonant phrase, and I’m thinking of it in contact with the material I’ve been storyboarding for a return to Whistling Copse. The material I’ve been working out on paper will use photography of the woods but also use it as a springboard for other things- kind of using the woods as a map to other places. When I have the sketches handy  I’ll scan them in.

I like the thought of a hidden stronghold. The idea of one world inside another is what intrigues me. I’m dimly imagining the storyboard material morphing into some sort of more or less literal fortress imagery; though the point is not the literal imagery, but the leap from one world to another. One world within another.

I’ve now read a brief synopsis of the plot of the Kurosawa movie via the link I posted above. Since this would probably be the strongest reference for most people from the title phrase, I’ll find a way to engage with some of the movie’s themes.

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clockwatching

by andreweason


clockwatching study, originally uploaded by aesop.

Over the last few days I’ve been working on my PhD studies and trying to get a little book together for an exhibition around a ‘sitting room’ theme. I’ve been working on ideas around grandfather clocks.

nightmilling (study)

by andreweason


nightmilling (study), originally uploaded by aesop.

uploading a load of material from sketchbooks now to add to my studio journal.

This study is from work for a series of prints I’m working on to do with windmills.

Reading room, Bristol Reference Library

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Reading room, Bristol Reference Library, originally uploaded by aesop.

From a set of photos I took for the forthcoming book on the library, which celebrates its centenary this year.

The Amber Room

by andreweason

A question on, of all things, University Challenge, last night, was about The Amber Room, the famously lost treasure-room made of gilt-backed amber. It was a present to the Russians from the Prussians, and disappeared following WWII during which it was looted by the invading Germans. Various theories exist claiming that the work does or does not any longer exist.

It seemed to me that it might make a fine starting point for a book. Given my recent reading on hermeneutic analysis and the ways in which hermeneutics approaches objectivity, I thought something examining the history and possible continued existence of an object seemingly ‘lost in time’ (a thing I see in a lot of Stephen Poliakoff‘s films) would be an interesting way of exploring issues of being in an artwork. I propose not to produce something documentary so much as a poetic exploration. This would sit alongside my current projects; the ‘windmill’ project, ‘Whistling Copse’ and the version of ‘The Three Ravens"