Typewrite My Heart

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A typeface i made out of paperclips

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these last few posts are photographs of my 'mini mock up' book that is called 'The very thought of you' which is a celebratory book about the life of my now Alzeimer's suffering aunt. It has taken me a long time to gather all the material together, quotes, song lyrics and poems and stories. I wanted to look at her life in a positive way by using old photographs and my own collages that I have made, twelve small canvas' some of which images below on this page.

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these last two images are from my short film versus, which is a split screen of china vs england out the window looking at the scenery. The england footage is layered over the top of the half screen of china and bleeds into and over the china side giving a haunting effect.

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more beijing belongings.

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my recent trip to Beijing.

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what you want - but can't have.

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here are some postcards I have created using the handwriting and answers to the questions that people have given me, they are simple but some of them have worked out quite well with my photography.

2006-10-07T18:54:00.000+01:00

this is a f*cked up photo from the bunglow where I had the dream, the floating curtains and my mossie net at the window, the poor lighting of the one bulb.

'the dream about my brother'

2006-10-07T18:29:00.000+01:00

Thailand 17th August

We were staying in this dingy bunglow right on the beach, and it was basic, but had something really weird about it. I woke up with hot tears rolling down my cheeks, wrapped in the net floating around me from the ceiling fan. I dreamt that my mother told me that I had a brother and she had to have him adopted before I was born, it was so real and vivid that it made me cry uncontrollably; I have always wanted siblings. In the dream I remember feeling so stupid for not realising earlier - it really affected me and I was scared to go back to sleep incase I fell back into the same dream. Of course I trust my parents but after that I could not help but question reality and what I knew always as truth, I felt unnerved, but it has made me want to document this dream in a short film.

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wow my camera was a clever sod mixing some really interesting photos together

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This is the start of my big rant, about the breakage of my digital camera when i was travelling this summer in Thailand and Malaysia, however the broken f*cked up photos that it did produce were somehow quite intreiguing. So thought I would post some of them for you to appreciate, even though my appreciation is laced with anger.

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some examples of people's handwriting and their answers

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some other symbolic illustrations taken from the handwritten books 'what you want- but can't have'

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'useful' series just created one day when bored at work.

2006-04-02T13:13:00.000+01:00

An image I made called lost soul from a poem, to coincide with a short 2min film of a balloon release in the city of Leeds. These three images above are stills from the film, I loved making this film and really enjoyed it finished its very melancholy and easy to watch and reflects the words of the poem.

2006-03-26T13:31:00.000+01:00

A recent collage I made for my own text and image project, looked at influences from Schwitters, work by Tomato and Neasden Control Centre.

A haunting photograph I took during my art foundation, I found this abandoned pram in some woods near my home and it seemed like such a poignant piece of imagery that I captured it and desaturated its surroundings keeping the rouge of the pram.

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A layout page from the book 'Memory Loss' heavily influenced by simplistic Bauhaus design,e.g the great designers, El Lissitzsky and Moholy-Nagy.

Some of my favourite typography examples, my typewriter is one of my most treasured belongings, there is something truely nostalgic and personal about typewritten documents.

An illustrated design for a poem screen printed onto fabric.

2006-03-26T13:21:00.000+01:00

These four photographs were from first year, the two of wires and a plug are from a series called 'Journey of Electricity' where I produced a couple of small photographic books; and the other two were from an installation I made where I projected poetry onto floating dresses and a figure in answer to a poetry brief.

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Two ephemera style collages by the great Kurt Schwitters, I am always inspired by his way of process, as it closely relates to my own style of working. Schwitters' work has a continuous evocative and personal quality to them which I think makes me appreciate them so much.

Here are some examples of bookwork and layout using text and image, bleached photo by Vaughn Oliver, and illustration from Adrenalin magazine, this work influenced me for my text and image project last semester.