the 'breeding' of Sandy the Golden Retriver

I will be able to now walk a dog that I never had chance to meet, but have heard a lot about. This dog has gone from beeing a small fragment in a huge family photo album, to a life size dog once more. Sandy will be going to CDPOM dog kennels in Bermondsay.

Dogs found in my family's photo album.

COMING SOON!!!

Read this photograph

At first glance this image looks like a badly taken picture of a newly married couple, which is true. But once you start to read the photograph you start to spot accidental incidents that have also been captured. Is it the man tarring the roof in the background / is it that the spots of clouds are perfectly lined up with the angle of the roof / or simply that the groom inside the car is giving a happy thumbs up.

Visual Incidents that occur when reading a found photograph.

When looking through my families old photographs searching for the 'legs, torso, plant, door, 6x4' series, I stumbled accross this beautiful photograph. You can clearly see a lady sat comfortably with a tree for a head and a door in the background. I need to do nothing to this image, it is already collaged together.

Quote about Drawing by Valentin Tristain Boiangiu

Sometimes it (drawing) involves a great deal of Narrative. It could encapsulate and transmit huge vistas, large perspectives, numerous planes, hundreds of miles of coverage, wide birds (or satellites) eye views of places, towns, whole districts and even continents. Some other times drawing deals with complex situations full of characters, figures of all sizes, ages, class, race or/and gender. Drawing can be the most democratic situation on earth. Anybody can come together and do whatever in a drawing. The artist is always included through her/his touch, mistakes, fingerprints, physical discomfort, humane clumsiness, artistic expertise or inabilities, emotional insecurities and always exposure. It can be therapeutic, analytical and often a necessity. It always pushes things further or/and constitutes an essential translation between brain and any other form of artistic representation/medium. Sometimes drawing is a plan which is then used to build homes, hospitals, parliament buildings, army bunkers, guns, weapons of mass destruction, clothes, utilitarian, and space shuttles. Some other times it is religious, it has spiritual values. It has the power to tell us things or shows people/characters that couldn’t normally see or perceive. Drawing can design fairies, princesses, saints, god, heaven and hell. Drawing can provide homes for the homeless, lovers for the unloved, company for the solitary. Drawing has the ability to transmit anything, anything whatsoever to generations and future societies, it can even change political systems (look at the Nazis and Communists) the symbols, visual propaganda, logos, emblems of these political systems were first to influence the masses, and to obtain their votes and ultimately change their minds. For example the swastika was already embossed on people’s brains before bread filled a hole in their stomachs.

A DRAWING CAN HAVE THE POWER TO BE A HUGE LIE, SOMETIMES A BEAUTIFUL ONE; OTHER TIMES A DISASTEROUS ONE.

homagenarrative, day 2, 9 - 18mins