I had a bit of break through with this ://LAMELLA project of mine over the weekend. Which is a good job too since I have been invited to talk about my work alongside Maria Ahmed at Photofusion in Brixton next week. Do sign up and come along if you can. Maria’s work is exciting and fresh, and I have been following her on Instagram for a few years, always loving what she produces.
After a burst of energy a few weeks ago, I left the ://LAMELLA site alone for a little break, allowing things to percolate for a moment. When I returned to it on Sunday morning, the reading I had been doing over Easter seemed to knock the project into a much more robust paradigm. I am never entirely sure what I’m doing, as I juggle images around, placing, deleting, reforming, cutting up, and prompting. However, now when I look over what has been emerging, it seems that the struggle between difference and identity as the foundation for how we see the world and ourselves is key. The tyranny of the grid, individualism, image of self and others are all inculcated within that struggle, but that is the overriding inquiry. I think! Comprehending this allowed me to start editing and sequencing in pretty much the same way I might if I were putting together a traditional photography project. I’ve certainly got more of that to do. And I need to decide how big a part sound will play, if at all.
Will I get to where I need to be, so I can employ ://LAMELLA in my MA show, or will the earlier research which has arrived in its current form as dialogues for one be preferable? I am not sure yet. I’d like to go with the images from ://LAMELLA but we’ll see. The talk has come at an excellent moment in its development, and I imagine it will inform some kind of resolution.
Click on the link to book and I hope to see you there.