silence is golden

It's been a fortnight since I was in Newcastle gee time goes quickly.

In that time I have been holding a few workshops and letting participants starting to feel their way with what they want to do. I have been teetering on feeling slightly guilty as I feel I am not doing anything but in actual fact I have been doing heaps - alot of it however is not terribly focussed at the moment and I am still not sure what the final outcome (if any) will be.

I am great one for dragging my feet when it comes to approaching people - call it being shy, a fear of the negative, or just plain lazy - maybe all three.

The Aquasculpture entry I have been working on this week finally congealed today - it's been grinding away at me as to what to do - and it's been pissing me off - how to present some seemingly disparate images and sounds - without spending too much money and making them cohesive in form - in the end I have decided to present 2 works. Funnily enough, it wasn't until I realised that I could make them all silent that they became a cogent group instead of four individual pieces each needing separate treatments.

The Aquasculpture theme this year is climate change - I have taken this extremely laterally as evidenced below...
Mt2C / C2Mt
Consists of two silent sped up car journeys shot from the passenger side of the car.
The first depicts this journey in Adelaide and the second is shot in the Camden Haven region.
They metaphorically trace an imaginary water trail from mountain to sea or vice versa in each location however this trail isreplaced with dirt tracks, suburbs, cities, fences, bridges and stop lights.
Distress #1
Consists of two slowed down pieces of silent footage each with subtitles.
The first depicts a woman with worry and little troubles. The second depicts a lifesaver retelling a story when he was in trouble in the surf.

They are all very simple in execution, and hopefully they are captivating in some small way, and three of them are direct results from the residency which is cool I suppose.

I have been thinking too big and numerous at the moment, always wanting four projectors for this and twenty of something else to feel I am making a visual impact - and whilst it'd be good to have it all at your finger tips, I hope that by restricting it right down to these four reinterpreted images, no sound, and a single screen has left it bare for the viewer to enter the piece in some way.