Slowly but surely...

Some new work using donated Polaroids from Hong Kong.

So, once again it's been a while since I put anything on here..

What I'm not going to say though is..
It's a new year, new start, more focused etc etc..

I'm going to get on with things.
Work towards some projects, a few shows etc..
Oh and a proper website....soon

For now, some Polaroids from my December trip to Berlin.
A city that I've wanted to visit for some time, and one that I shall
definitely be visiting again soon.

A few polaroids taken on a trip to Brighton
a few weeks ago...

Forgot to mention that these were all taken with
a Model 1 SX-70 that I bought from the great
people at the Impossible shop in HK.

A long overdue update!
Lots of things have been happening since I last
posted, and as a result I havn't really made much
new work for some time now..
However, now that things have settled a bit I
plan to start working on some ideas.

I also have a space waiting for me at the gallery I work
at, so that should be all teh insentive I need to make work :p
For now though, I'm going to put up some polaroids I took on
my recent trip to Hong Kong.
It was quite an experience and something I'm hugely glad I did.
Rather than describing teh trip etc, I'll take the simple option and
let the photos do that for me...

http://www.saatchionline.com/profile/153796

I have finally got round to properly uploading and
pricing some work for my Saatchi Online profile.
So go and have a browse, tell your friends and family
and maybe even buy something :p

An older stencil exposure piece and a few new ones..
The new ones are smaller and have a focus on the
old big and bold typorgraphy encountered while at
Coney Island, NYC.

Two more diptych emulsion lifts.
I have tried manipulating the various layers a bit
more with these. Doing feels almost like mixing and
overworking paint on a canvas.
I aiming to try and acquire some found polaroids to
then bring through this process. Both as a way of
re-animating the image/memory, and also as a way of
almost making the image mine, despite my not knowing
of the history or events behind it.

While my previous polaroid experiments were quite
interesting, I didn't really feel there was anywhere I
could take them.
So, this led me to try out the "emulsion lift/transfer"
process. Although most of the stuff I read about it
either recommended using specific film (669) or 35mm
slide film. Freshly processed film was also recommended..
However I couldn't see why it wouldn't work with standard
600 film processed a few years ago, and besides I don't have
any fresh film to use.
When I was applying the emulsion image to the watercolour paper,
I was trying to pull bits apart and alter the image in different ways.
This was at odds with the examples I had seen, where the images
had obviously been carefully transferred so as to keep them as
intact and as recognisable as possible.
Anyway I'm pretty pleased with the results, and I have more
planned!

I tried a few experiments with "peeling" some old

polaroids recently, after reading an article on the Impossible Project website.

http://shop.the-impossible-project.com/allabout/silvershade/#ilovepeelings

Ideally I think it is intended to be done with freshly
taken film, but I managed to get some quite subtle,
but quite beautiful results with quite old film.
I found that soaking the polaroids in hot water for five
or so minutes allows for the emulsion to peel far easier.
I have some ideas of where to take this, so stay tuned for
more!