Monday

I heard on the radio that today was meant to be the most depressing day of the year?

Really?

Minus a beautiful general studies exam* this morning I've had a pretty good Monday :) Because of the exam I ended up only having the last two lessons today which happened to be double art :D :D Where I continued with my experimental work to support my final piece for this unit.

 This third unit we're currently doing is self-directed so you can pretty much choose anything you want to explore. I've chosen to explore surveillence as I got the idea from an exhibition I went to during the London art trip last summer. The trip was amazing and I hope me and the art gang are planning to head down there again this summer - just us - art - and good old London town ;)

Anyway - this exhibition was based on surveillance, voyeurism and the camera, and seeing the range of ways the camera had been used inspired me to take this aspect into my next unit of work, and here we are! After college it so happened to be an open day which mean I could say back after college to start my final piece ;) I planned to take short surveillance films from all over the studio in order to created my own CCTV, it was great that there was going to be a range of people flowing in and out of the departement, which gave me the opportunity to get plenty of footage! I loved it ;) My friends who we're staying back to work on their own final pieces kept seeing me bob in and out the studio slyly placing the camera under tables or in corners to get a really voyeuristic point of view.


I must have looked so shifty!


Picture me, walking around and art studio with a large coat over one arm looking around suspiciously... I saw my art teacher talking to potential students in one studio and she smiled when i came in (knowing what I was up to) and later told me that she had to look away to hide the laughter, she said it looked like i had a gun or something dodgey under that coat the way I'd been carrying it!! I must say after a while i really got into the whole idea of surveying, setting up my camera in various places - it was fun...
 Although this has now earned me the reputation as the 'stalker' of the art department haha.


I'm going to take a closer look at my footage tomorrow - I can't wait!

* please note: the general studies exam was far from beautiful...