Site based research consists of a selection of images i have taken for aesthetic, composition or to relate to my practice. These images were taken from December 2024 until May 2025
I had linked these images through the nature of material. I wanted to juxtapose how i looked at sites, merging them to engage with new ideas about my images and what interested me. The image on the left directly linked to research from my essay last term (research archive) , whilst the right explored themes from last term but took a new perspective of nature and the shape was very natural and uncontrolled. This would help establish my perception of objects later in the term.
The site based research has become more a way of exploring ways to relate images and how their intruige may be exploited in certain parts of my practice but also my interests in general.
Using overlaps of sites, I was able to explore various themes of taxonomy, floriogrpahy and victoriana from last term and conjuncting its significance with new interests in structure and material such as glass.
On a trip to New York I walked past these glass bottles in a shop window. The aesthetic reminding me of an apothecary and the alignment reminded me of a trip id taken a month prior to Haworth where i found rows and rows of canles. Both the candles and glass bottles would have common environments in victorian landscapes. The trees above reminded me of both and whilst this woodland is ancient, its origin in the 19th century began from the swinton estates idea to create follies amongst the woodland, renaming the area a druids temple.
Using site images aquired over the new year, in response to aquiring glass strings which became of interest, I looked at the linework of ecological and naturalistic textures, overlapping them to produce a lattice structure.
This can be elaborated further in ‘glass mobile’ which explores the process of aquiring and installing my concept.
I find exposure in different environments can equate to new concepts which I like to explore in my work whether they are explored as concepts or developed further however is a different story. I find myself producing ideas which may not directly relate to my current practice which I leave shelved. These images are an example of such I found common themes between the rocks of Brimham and the colour of an artificial apothecary explored in Haworth. Whilst these two don’t directly relate I also found overlapping themes between nature and the perception of shadows and natural environments and how it creates depth. This could also be related to the apothecary and the changing in landscape which the bottles provide on a wall space as height stiffer and soda The contents of the bottle. These are all ideas which did not directly relate to my work however, still inform my choices in my practice.
Whilst taking a walk to uni one day I became intrigued by groundworks happening at the end of my road. The workers were digging up the pavement in order to lay new foundations for a pedestrian area. I took interest in the layers of sediment and clay which lay beneath the surface of the road, which I would never have Thought of having anything other than tarmac. This provided a new perspective to me one which I’m often seeking in my practice, helping me think outside the box about what lies underneath what exists. Was the perception of a place is marked by what’s visible? I feel it’s necessary to explore what may I be beneath the underlying and the underpinning. This helped me conceptually think about my work and about its perception not as an individual object but when converged with other factors how it’s perspective may differ.
In response to the above construction sites, I found myself looking for underlying layers in my own practice in daily life. I found myself exploring texture and light. Both of these are perceived incredibly different as a body and can be changed by human intervention above shows a glass teardrop which has light refracting on it I was looking at how the light would change on the wall space behind however was drawn to the colour and textures provided by the light on the glass creating a new perspective of the object. On the right, confetti, the art of blowing glass so thin that it holds the texture of paper and flexibility when lay it glamours in the light. at the bottom, the refraction of light bouncing off cars on the road outside my home on a sunny day. Was these patterns changed throughout the day, the concept remains the same and hidden in plain sight.
Whilst visiting home In the spring, I am constantly drawn to the sunspots which hit my home throughout the morning. With blinds on windows, the distortion of light becomes more magic as its disjointed lines and added refractions from car windows outside and the greenhouse provide a fresh brief perception of the window view.
From the bathroom, a large evergreen, around 200 years old, swayed in the wind.the light is displaced from the perception of the view from the window as the sun shines onto the crisp bathroom walls.
This existed on March 30th 2025 from 09:54- 09:56
Info about Light Refractions:
Different materials have different densities. Light waves may change direction at the boundary between two transparent materials. Refraction is the change in direction of a wave at such a boundary.
Matter cannot be created or destroyed meaning the energy of light refractions is transmitted and wavelengths altered due to the implications of glass on the light.
So if a wave slows down, its wavelength will decrease. The effect of this can be shown using wave front diagrams like the one below. The diagram shows that as a wave travels into a denser medium, such as water, it slows down and the wavelength decreases. Although the wave slows down, its frequency remains the same, due to the fact that its wavelength is shorter.
One common theme which I found easy to identify was windows in environments. A window as an access point frames are moving image one which I think is important in my installation instead of capturing a moment it possesses the ability to explore time through a unique perspective of a viewer. For example on the top left and natural pocket in a rocky landscape at Brimham provides a window into a land landscape which has worn away over 1000s of years on the right of folly produced in 19th century Woodland which overtime has been destroyed due to weather in nature along with the landscape around it changing with the seasons for hundreds of years. Below provides an abstract perspective on this concept, the perception of water on a window and how it affects the view. Here we can see small droplets where the landscape is flipped on its head in this perspective interests me reminding me of the shapes of rocks at Brimham but also as the droplets disappear, it reflects the deterioration in nature seen in the Folly above.
A significant selection of my research revolves around the fleeting feeling I feel in manchester, wanting to escape back to nostalgia of my childhood city of ripon and the experiences which connect me with my environment. I feel drawn towards nostalgic juxtapositions in familiar environments and the nostaliga of nature expanding as far as a familiar place and its seasonal shift.
The significange of a moment posesses such a large impact on my desire to relive an experience of memory. I feel the correlation between correlation and memory evokes joy in everyone and its significance differs from mind to mind, making the moment even more unique from one perspective to the next.
