As part of our Advanced Practice Module we are able to create a reflective journal, I will use this blog to document my ideas, drawings, film work, rants and so on with the hope of creating a book at the end of the project. Last term I focused my practice on the deconstruction of Hitchcock's Rear Window. As I editing the footage of the film I was able to create two separate narrative, which the viewer was able to view as separate films. Contextually the work looks at the issue of the male gaze and the idea of a Peeping Tom, using constructed boxes mimicking the apartments in the film I was able to project the footage into the boxes in an installation. This installation is to be considered a test piece, however the work has led me into what I feel is a development of the ideas gained in my creation Jeff & Thorwald (shown above). Research into Hitchcock I was introduced to the concept of Hitchcock as the Master of the Dolls house which with regard to issues of the male gaze and Peeping Tom can be interpreted through work.
I hope this reflective journal will help me understand the flow of thoughts, my main problem is I work virtually, my thoughts and ideas live on a computer and most of the time is spent thinking of the work not documenting it. Hopefully if this commitment and the desire of creating a book of my work will allow me a steady work pattern and reflect (as this is a reflective journal) my thoughts and desires for my art work.
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