After meeting with Caleb we discussed documenting the work a little more. I have spent the morning setting up my basement again, although the other day I did not cleaning to create space again for another work area. Being behind the camera again was very exciting!! I also thought this work beautiful when I took the old "used" veggies and fruits I had photographed with an set them up almost like a framed image and photographed them. As I was photographing I realized that the material had started to fall off more and more from the glass and so I have left it set up downstairs to come and write this post and maybe document again the time lapse of this work and another form of deterioration of it. I am having a stonger sense of confidence this morning with this set up I have created and I look foward to producing more still lifes of the material I use for this whole process such as the remains of all the shredded produce that is used to juice.
The discussion has come about using only material from my house. There for Caleb and I discussed growing my own beets in my house. This is a thought for the winter time and a dear mentor of mine were discussing this as well and she said what about you compost all the material you are using currently and create your own soil to grow the beets in and then it would be again embracing this idea of life and death and death bringing us life. Just exactly my focus or want. I have a lot of work to do.....but based off my last paper I wrote I spoke about my work being about life and death and the use of sun to create life which also can take life and the circle that even when something dies, it may give life to something else. Such as the creation of soil. This reflects my desire to find a connection with my work and the loss of my father.
This is exciting.....here are some iphone images that are nothing of the real ones but a view of what was happening this morning. The film should be sent out this week and hopefully Ill have images up this weekend.
Enjoy!
