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Mingling Memories and Artivism

Artivism - a project exploring the creative talents of different generations, using recycled materials, memories and shared stories.

With Artivism, I became interested in exploring the theme of ‘recycling’ from a wider context. Instead of simply recycling materials, I wanted to explore the notion of recycling the ‘human’ element, or at least, people’s stories and memories.

Using the head as a vessel for memories, visual artist, Kevin Hickson and I, worked creatively with the group to create characters that either directly related to personal memories or referred to imaginary fantastical experiences.

To support the 3D pieces, I worked with the group to create a short video piece called Mingling Memories from sampled conversations, old photos and reminisces. Together with composer, Mark Valentine Sullivan, this imagery was then woven together to create a collective memory, complementing and illuminating the beguiling pieces made by the group.

The video piece attempts to bring together the recycling theme, the creative work produced, and the intergenerational aspect of the project - while placing the participants stories right at the centre of the work.

Working with composer, Mark Valentine Sullivan, the haunting, melodic rhythm of the sound track moves the narrative along, while the fragmentary nature of the video - through trains, tracks and visual motion - together, serves as a visual and aural metaphor for memories, and how they recall each other, directly and indirectly, like the memories they reference.

The tracks that guide the course of our rembering, of our remembrances!

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Short sample movie showing an example of an animation technique and the visual style for an upcoming moving image submission and expression of interest.

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the illusion of fact in collaboration with mark valentine www.blurb.com/books/1280772 The ResCollecTiVU is an alternative bi-annual publication and performance series through the RCAH, MSU, and the surrounding community. Showcasing dynamic, inventive, and provocative work of all mediums, including poetry, music, photography, theater, media art, video, sound constructions, spoken word art, graphics, dance, installations, paper play, webart, and sculpture. I was invited, along with Mark Valentine Sullivan, to contribute a series of photographic submissions in the ‘Digital History’ category. The images looked at what it means to digitize memories, collections, historical documents, photos, letters, or voices in an effort to preserve them and their stories. This submission considered the question of documentary, what would and should we preserve, and why. We chose to submit a series of photographic montages, as an exploration into the concept of ‘illusion’ as it relates to factual documentary. How the memory and the image, can play tricks. The sources images were from two eras, but were sandwiched together to create the illusion of a single memory, from two very different sources. The submission was addressing the concept of digital history.
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If a building had a memory, with secrets to tell, what would it say? ‘Slip in Time’ began as an enquiry into the secrets a building might tell, if only we spoke the same language. Video artist, Shari Baker, and composer, Mark Sullivan worked collaboratively to suggest a hint of these memories, dislocated in time. Responding to the space, they used visual and aural artifacts sampled directly from the building, to explore the traces and fragments left behind. Weaving a vast historical and social tapestry of memory itself. The short film, which was created, will be on view as part of the Temple Works torch light tours, running during the Leeds Light Night Festival on October 9th, 2009. The work brings together fleeting moments, captured as glitches in time, half remembered, visual and aural metaphors with a narrative that is both haunting, yet soothing, and somehow, just beyond our reach of comprehension. Immense in its quietness, it is intended to leave us wanting more, just like memories themselves. The project was created as a transatlantic collaboration, with composer Mark Sullivan. Video and audio was captured by Shari Baker and then processed and edited, by the duo. Being passed back and forth during the development of the piece, which ultimately, became a response to each others work, and the building itself. Shari Baker is a video artist and educator who develops video experiences for performance, installation and online media. She collaborates with a wide variety of sound, video and interactive artists, to explore the creative relationships between digital and analogue communication, and the shared language across the visual and acoustic domains. Her work combines both the whimsical and the provocative and has been exhibited worldwide. Mark Valentine Sullivan, a composer working with sound, with photographs, and with multimedia compositions, has performed and exhibited around the globe. He continues his creative research into the relationship between music, language, and movement, between still images and sound, and between the language shared between the visual and the acoustic, and has pursued projects relating to a wide range of experimental practices in music, photography, and aesthetics. He has been closely involved, for twenty years, in schools and a range of communities, fostering imaginative and critical understanding of artistic activity. Bookings essential. Tickets are available here.The event will continue through Saturday 10th - Friday 16th - ticket bookings HERE
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STUDIO47 - August Issue

The August Shoot at STUDIO47 was a LOT of fun!! Here’s a collection of shots from the shoot!

Open publication

Photo shoots by appointment - sb@floemedia.co.uk | studio47

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The recent shoot at STUDIO47 was a lot of fun!! Sam arrived with an arm full of clothes, shoes, and all things fluffy and we spent the day creating a series of personal and promotional shots! It’s fabulous having a dedicated studio space in which to explore ’shooting people’ - faces, bodies and identities - and I’m enjoying noticing what occurs with each new person, as we begin working in this small, artificially lit, creative space. Since opening the studio, my ongoing project: FACES continues - some images are faces, some are faceless, all are about public and private identities, how we see ourselves, and how the world sees us. This is an ongoing study and responds to the individuals who come to the studio looking for pictures. Each new session fuels my fascination with lighting techniques - and the possibilities that this makes available - via various visual dialogues within both photography and video. I find also that the vulnerability of the sitter, and the trust between subject and photographer, is an interesting dynamic in which to work. Within this unspoken ‘contract’, if we find an honest rapport and there is an element of trust between photographer and subject, magic does indeed happen. This image is part of a larger collaborative project working towards a video installation. More from the shoot can be viewed here.
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Ephemeral Qualities of being shoot at phoenix…

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STUDIO47 - June Issue

THE JUNE SHOOT at STUDIO47 was a birthday treat for the lovely Anna Rose!! A FULL day of fun with hats .. hats .. and more .. hats!!! ANNA’s special day was spent in the studio, where we goofed around with light ropes, dress changes and funky old cameras, while nibbling from bowls of jelly babies - yum yum!



The studio is open for private shoots by appointment only. Please visit the website for more information, or email for rates and availability.

Photo shoots by appointment - sb@floemedia.co.uk | studio47

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My fascination with vintage cameras continues, often fueled by beautiful friends and fellow artists! This was a beautiful gift from paolo. The Ferrania Eura (1959), a simple box camera made of plastic and aluminium that produces 6x6 cm exposures on 120 rollfilm. Fitted with a simple meniscus lens and spring-operated shutter. The Eura is most notable for its sleek Italian styling, which appears modern even today. Hoorah! I took this with me to San Francisco in June and shot six rolls! A couple of those shots can be seen here.
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The Ferrania Eura (1959), a simple box camera made of plastic and aluminium that produces 6x6 cm exposures on 120 rollfilm. Fitted with a simple meniscus lens and spring-operated shutter. The Eura is most notable for its sleek Italian styling, which appears modern even today. Hoorah! A beautiful gift from paolo. I took this with me to San Francisco in June and shot six rolls! Scans coming soon!
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