EXPERIMENTATION
Responding to sound through visual imagery continues to be the focus of my work and I’m looking for ways to allow the outcome to be experienced in another dimension beyond seeing. In this post I’m experimenting with producing a video of my working with sound. In this piece I’m using crayons so that the work is immediate. Earlier studies were done at 4.30am in the garden as I listened to the dawn chorus, followed up with this work in the studio listening to the recording I made of the dawn soundscape.
I’ve spent some time on this small video and it has been a useful experiment. But I can’t see how it helps in the opening up of the soundscape to the viewer. The sound of the dawn chorus is there but I’m not trying to respond in any way to bird sound as a performance. The image making is responding to feelings which are created by hearing the sounds. Some of the marks illustrate the sound in a music sense but the piece is responding to the layers of sound which can be heard through the early light of dawn. The final marks bring in the layers of tree branches which house the sound.
The picture range is quite basic as I only had the mobile phone propped up on the table. If this idea was to be included in any exhibition of final paintings, it would need a more professional approach I feel.