Dust collecting

Methods of finding and collecting dust.

simon starling

Simon Starling is interested in the processes involved in changing things into different things. He won Turner Prize 2005 for the hut below, below. Shed boatshed. He dismantled a shed and turned it into a boat and he sailed it down the Rhine. a buttress for modernity, mass production and capitalism. Do all works have three themes in them? It seems that way 2 me.

Tom Phillips

Tom phillips said "When theres hardly anything left theres always a mark". He made a drawing as a film. It was of nothing in particular. He completed the drawing and then began to rub it out. Gradually he was left with the" scars of history" and a pile of dust on the floor. Some of it is charcoal, chalk, oose, food fragments, body bits, sawdust. These were all part of something bigger at one point. Dust marks are interesting. Repeating marks in different ways, namely different versions of the dust marks. I suppose there is also the idea of mortality in dust. A reminder of were we will ultimately end up. Phillips talks about the park bench being an emblem of mortality - people sitting about waiting to die. This got me thinking about looking at my dust in new angles. Im thinking that wether or not my dust is art; the process involved is art.

methods of research

1. Books

The Poetics of space by Gaston Bachelard, The Dust of Death by Oz Guiness, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, susan bee and Mira schor.

2. Journals

Close Up, Dawn Ades and Simon Baker. Art World, 7th Oct/Nov 2008

3. slide

"The Breeding Ground of Dust", Man Ray

4. archives

5. e-mail

6. talking to staff, students, people

7. Lectures

8. Internet

9. Photographs

10. blog following

11. Video - Tom Philips

12. Looking at other work in studio

13. inspiration from other blogs

14. experimenting in studio - with lamp, energy from duster, blowing, rubbing, mark making, containing, wall banging.