Roger Hoirn and funky cubes...

Adjusting to degree Fine Art was tricky business, I've struggled creatively all year, a series of blocks and other problems. However I’m slowly getting there. I feel I have learnt a lot this year despite not being that satisfied with what I have done but it can only get better. It’s made me realize more about myself and I suppose that’s what it’s about. Anyway this is how it started.

A quick mention of Roger Hiorn's exhibition Seizure as it was a very large influence in getting my work started. I became more interesting in photographing the abandoned flat then the crystallized rooms. Not that they were not interesting, it was more that they had a haunting memories of the people who lived there previously. The ways the walls were broken away and the scraps and remnants of wall paper added to this sadness. My strange fascination with pipes appeared from this exhibition.

I wanted to keep a sculptural basis to my work at degree but I felt I needed to get back to basics and keep experimenting with process to keep my ideas excited by new things. After creating a series of experimental cubes, a representational minimalist approach to space and its eventual breakdown through time, (This was done through smashing the box and recording its breakdown), and using imagery from this I wanted to take this further into the print workshop.

A quick mention of the reasoning behind the pipes and Anish Kapoor style liquid coming from them. The pipes come from an abandoned bungalow. I saw these as a representation of the life force of a house, the veins and capillaries. A duality to the human condition, a physical and emotional deterioration, and fragility we all acknowledge. The liquid was just an experiment visually, giving the pipes something to flow through them, like an abstract way of taking their purpose of carrying liquids to a completely different function. The red liquid is like blood. Essence. Its visually appealing now the pipes are almost baron, dry with the plaster and board.

The yellow liquid is a mixture the same as the previous redone but from spices. I thought it would contrast with the bright red and would just be interesting to see what could be made from cooking spices.