Artist Statement:
I used to try to avoid expressing my personal life and illnesses in my work, I considered it to a be a taboo topic. But when I started to think about my relationship to text, and then to time, all my daily rituals came to mind I felt like there was a lot of stuff inside me that I needed to express.
I started the text project by taking the side effects sheets from my medications and then running them through the photocopier at 400%. I then scanned them into my computer at home and took them into photoshop and collaged them together. There were a few fights with technology during these stages. Then I gridded them up, resized them and printed them on 200gsm A4 card. When I set up all the grids together I found that new words began to appeal to me, so I chose to highlight these words in different ways. At this time I was reading through the article of Ed Ruscha. Ruscha described his word choices as 'hot words' that he needed to capture straight away before they disappeared. I really like this concept and I think it's applicable here.
Influences for the text project include, Jenny Watson, Mel Bochner and Bruce Nauman.
The text project influenced my narrative project quite a lot. After seeing the date paintings of On Kawara, I was inspired to look at my daily rituals with my medication alarms. I have a diploma of animation and I had seen quite a lot of flip books pop up recently which inspired me to delve back into creating moving images. I am not entirely happy with the outcome of this flip book, I used a premade sketch book which restricted me with the timing of the work. I ended up photographing each image and putting it together in a gif maker to create a small stop motion animation. I think the short animation worked a little better than the actual book in the end.
Influences for the narrative project include, The Flippist, Serene Teh and Mou Hitotsu no Kenkyujo.
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