Materials - collage, structural paintings
Assemblage has great advantage over many techniques, because it is tri-dimensional, at least to some degree. Below are photos of gathered objects planned for next assemblage activity.
Clock dials bring in mind that time is always against us. Obsession about o-rings comes from past job as a lab scientist, household small repairs, and the "challenger" movie. In metaphoric sense it tells the story of seemingly insignificant but crucial elements of the systems like reactors, spacecraft or analytical instruments. It could also be story about single point of failure. Plastic netting used for fruits and vegetables (which should be banned btw) could show how easy it is to get entangled. Electronic motherboards, resistors, diodes could mean constant flow of ideas from dawn of invention through short lived popularity, to dusk of obsolescence when invention is replaced with something else. Nail polish, pine cones, stones, copper wire and dried plants - each of them is hooked up in a story. These are things we take for granted, don't pay attention to, discard.
The photographic gear in use:
Aga: wet film: Zenit, Practica, Pentax. Digital: Lumix, Nikon, Pentax, Xperia XZ Premium
Rab B: various analogue Nikons, both negative film and slides. digital Nicon, Sony Xperia family.
Joanna: Xiaomi, Lumix.
tbc.
Both types of photo taking, digital and wet film have their unique perks and challenges. More about it - in next update.
Inspirations are all around us
Once upon a time my husband and I had a house with a small garden. The soil was waterlogged and all attempts at cultivation, were mediocre at best. All attempts at soil improvement were initially disappointing and only started and only started to bare fruit after few years. We kept two big composters the contents of which were worked into the soil.
The photographs below show an unexpected "side effect" of our gardening activities - we were visited by the swarm of honey bees. They tried to start a new life in one of our composters. Probably our wildlife friendly plants we had around, also helped. Unfortunately I unknowingly disturbed them by opening the composter cover, they decided that time has come to move out. My husband called a local beekeeper who arrived in time to see them swarming in the alnus tree from where he easily collected them.
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