For my pathway I have chosen the exhibition route. Publishing is still a route for consideration both during the FMP and in the future and I have attempted those elements of the independent reflections below.
Think about:
• How a publication can help your work reach an audience.
By their very nature a publication can stand the test of time far better than an exhibition. The width of the audience is so much more vast with possible availability globally. A publications ability to have multiple lives by being sold on and on and shared is certainly of great importance to the audience reached. The viewer is able to pause as long as they want upon a page without concern of holding others up or of the image progressing to the next frame.
• How much you should be enticing the reader with good design, if at all.
I feel ‘good design’ isn’t necessarily important however ‘bad design’ is to be avoided at all costs. Keep it simple and don’t try and distract or show off in a way that might turn the viewer away from your work.
• Whether the reader ‘completes’ the publication.
‘Completes’ the publication I feel is a subjective concept. The speed at which one moves through a publication effects the level to which the absorb the imagery or the information contained there. One may spend longer on some images than others and may even skip over some images entirely. The beauty of the publication means one can revisit the content time and time again. An exhibition closes and a workshop ends but the book or publication endures.
• Ways you could exhibit your publication.
Often a way of exhibiting a publication depends greatly on how that publication works and is used. A concertina could be displayed upon a shelf or continuous plinth that could allow the viewer to work their way along either side.
I have often seen books displayed on singular plinths with a range of ways for the viewer to flick through.
Guided talk throughs of a publication with a visualiser could allow for vastly more people to see the publication. These talks could be live-streamed or held online for permanent exhibition and revisiting.
In your CRJ, write a short summary about:
• Your experience of the week’s activities and feedback received
Due to my intention to exhibit as opposed to create a publication or run a workshop I did not partake in this weeks activity. However my continued project development was enjoyable and steady with production starting on the light boxes I intend to show during the Landings series.
• Any reconsiderations to the core methodology of your project
The sepia experiments from the darkroom this week were particularly successful and were made in response to the works of Toni R. Toivonen. Although not his process, the representation on the paper, I feel, pays strong homage to his works. Although successful, I am not entirely sure of pursuing these as often of the core methodology of the project favouring other processes.
• Moving forward, the forms your project / photographs could potentially take
The start of work towards my light boxes for Landings progresses the work down that pathway. I have decided to exhibit images from last weeks scanner experiments and look forward to seeing how they will look. As this idea has been conceived so close to the exhibition I am working with the materials at hand. This may produce a less successful outcome but an outcome nonetheless.
Andrews Masters Journey 