Technicalities i.e. common ground between chemistry and art.
It seems like for millennia human beings were striving to make a mark on unsuspecting surfaces. And not without success. The drawings in Lascaux, Australian frescoes simple in form and choice of material, are so expressive, the artist seemed to know how to remove unnecessary parts to capture the sheer essence of what they were trying to present. Which shows btw that very often "less is more"
Collage/assemblage materials
Tools for the job...
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.
Love to use clock dials, (relation to time in busy environment is all-important factor). 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.
Photography
Tools for the job...
The photographic gear in use:
Aga: Zenit, Practica, Lumix, Nikon, Pentax. Camera photographs: Xperia XZ Premium
Rab B: various Nikons, both analogue and digital. Analog: both negative film and slides. Camera photographs: Sony Xperia family. Rab is most experienced photographer within this website
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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