Below are photographs taken in the photography suite in the LSAD on the 10/02/2012. The photographs were taken with a wite backdrop as a starting point for me to both learn how to use the photography facilities within the university and also to enable me to play about with different compositions against a neutral backround to explore all the possibilites and get some imagery to display at my Friday pop up session. The photographs were taken within a small time frame but was a useful way of getting quick results. The photographs show a collection of discarded wooden and metal objects that I collected from a scaffording yard JPS on the Dock Road Liverpool. They each are objects that had a specific use in the past and were part of the shipping industrey in Liverpool in some way or form. They had been outdoors for years ageing and weathering. I am interested in the environment and the way we live in a consumer driven environment and how almost everything we own is becoming disposable. What I am trying to do in this project, I suppose is to rescue these objects and transform them into something new and appreciated or desired. As I have taken these raw materials out of their home/environment/context, anywhere new I place them will give them a new meaning than the one they had before, if any, so this is the point I am at, considering what story or interpretation I want to give them.

I would like to put various found objects and materials together to create figurative pieces so that they take on individual personalities/charaters/roles. And I would like to display them ideally in a dark surrounding, an intimate place where people can come to respect, admire and contemplate the figures, sort of like a shrine or temple. This idea is heavily influenced by an exhibition I have been to by Chris Ofili and also by my interest in the Hindu religion and philosphy and the difference between Western and Eastern cultures.