Intentions –   I intended to broadly investigate decaying museological practices through the study of inanimate wax figures. Paying close attention to surrealism; ‘the uncanny’, ‘estrangement’ and ‘the fixed-explosive’  whilst also situating my investigation in[…]

Space, Place & Narrative: “Decaying Museology | Performing Temporality” Most of my final images share a strong degree of consistency and style that is communicated through the aesthetics and methodologies to these images. Throughout my[…]

Project Summary | Quick Recap Here are a series of bullet points that touch on some of the things that have happened in my project so far… My project originally stemmed from initial research into[…]

I plan to organise my texts thematically rather than chronologically also in a structure that focuses on the most important and useful sources because I feel that this best fits by project structure and development…[…]

This week… I conducted my final shoot which comprised mostly of human recreations and re-photography. I began by asking a friend to model for some shots, posing in ways that replicated some of my existing[…]

  Fortunately this week, I was able to visit STEAM courtesy of a family member offering to take me, who was attending the model rail convention. I used this time to also re-visit STEAM’S wax[…]

Photomedia Readings… Museological Practices & Immersion… Gunning, T. (1989) ‘The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectators and the Avant-Garde’, Wide Angle. Vol 8 (2/3). “Its unique power was a “matter making images seen.”[1] Cinema followed[…]

SO FAR… Following my post-industrial photography shoot at STEAM in Swindon, I have decided to pursue a photographic exploration that examines museum media. When inside STEAM, I stumbled across elaborately constructed environments that featured incredibly[…]