A WORLD OF MY OWN

by Katrina Kocialkowska

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"A World of My Own" a celebration of the power of thought by Katrina Kocialkowska

Exhibition - My initial ideas and inspirations

HUMAN SPACE THOUGHT

My ideas are all in the subject of the exploration of human's mind in relation to the space. I would like to design not only the exhibition but also the space or metaphorically speaking the platform for the performance.

I am very much inspired by the way Kubrick designed his film sets for the Space Odyssey 2001 and would like to work in a similar way with my project.

I am planning to crate my exhibition space as a CAD model and rendeer it in a Artlantis for the 3D realistic effect http://www.artlantis.com/

This year I am in a Film Platform. We are working within the subject of expanded cinema. I also like to use elements of this in my project. My aim would be to both use the idea for the exhibition and then to film it so it can be shown to the public in a cinema theatre. That way I get to design my space without having to worry about the expenses involved in the rent of the space, materials and also it gives larger room for the creativity.

I will film the space and the experience in a way that the viewer would see it and then show it to a large audience so they can achieve the same viewing experience without having to go to the space. It will be a very interactive kind of experience.

RED BLACK WHITE

Recently I have been quite unconsciously surrounding myself with those three colours. Just a few days ago I went to the Shadow Catchers Exhibition at the V&A museum. As I was holding one of their flyers with the exact same colurs on it. I started contemplating on the idea and realized the meaning and importance of the choices I made and what it really meant to me.

RED - life, strenght, blood, power, intensity (the power of thought)

BLACK- the unknown, dark side of human's mind, things we might fear

WHITE - the infinity, purity, space, air

ME AND MY MIND

My space in a way is reminisent of a bubble. A spiritual space that we create around our bodies without knowing about it. It will be pure, translucent, open...

There will be also contrasting elements of objects and suprise introduced as well. Just as in a real world we get obstacles every day on our way.

I will be playing with light, shadow, phonogram photography, film, moving image and sound.

3D SPACE DESIGN FOR V&A LIGHTING EXHIBITION

EXHIBITION - SPACE DESIGN

SIMPLICITY, GRACE AND VISUAL CLARITY

PHOTOGRAMS BY Floris M. Neusüss

The essence of photography lies in its seemingly magical ability to fix shadows on light-sensitive surfaces. Normally, this requires a camera. Shadow Catchers, however, presents the work of five international contemporary artists - Floris Neusüss, Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller and Adam Fuss - who work without a camera. Instead, they create images on photographic paper by casting shadows and manipulating light, or by chemically treating the surface of the paper. Images made with a camera imply a documentary role. In contrast, camera-less photographs show what has never really existed. They are also always an original because they are not made from a negative. Encountered as fragments, traces, signs, memories or dreams, they leave room for the imagination, transforming the world of objects into a world of visions.

Adam Fuss and the art of Photogram

ADAM FUSS

(English, born 1961)

from the series, ‘My Ghost’, 2001

Unique gelatin silver print photogram mounted on muslin

88 3/4 x 58 3/4 x 2" (225.4 x 149.2 x 5 cm.)

Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund , 2002

Adam Fuss made this work with little more than smoke and light. It is a type of photograph, called a photogram, which is made without a camera. Fuss has been exploring early photographic processes and camera-less photography for many years. To make a photogram, light sensitive paper is placed behind an object which, when exposed to light, results in a shadowy image. In this piece, he has captured the ephemeral tendrils of a swirling cloud of smoke in a one-of-a-kind print.

This image is part of a series called "My Ghost," which this British-born photographer began in 1999. The series, as with all of Fuss’s work, is about life and death, birth, love and loss. It is his personal meditation on grief. In this quietly intimate series, pictures of smoke, christening gowns, butterflies, and flying birds give visible and metaphorical form to the intangible spiritual presence of a deceased person. So, in a sense, this elegant image of passing smoke can be read as a symbolic embodiment of a human soul.

- Jennifer Bayles, Educator for Special Projects

Adam Fuss artist, NY
(intervied in 1999 at Fotomuseum Winterthur by Tim Otto Roth)
The aesthetic of me not being there
One doesn't have complete controle over the individual picture in the way one steps back. The force that makes the picture, the actual construction of the picture is not made by the hand it is made by the law of nature, the form that the nature takes. But one creates the situation that allows to take place. So there is a great degree of taken the helm. But there is also a situation where it is beyond, it is like another world. So there is no way you can do that. I like the aesthetic of me not being there, of the being no helm, of the looking like that there is no one there...

http://www.photogram.org/concept/statements/adamfuss.html

The Grass View

King of the wood is a photographic portfolio of my encounter with a deer in its wild environment. My goal was to capture his individuality, gracefulness, sensitivity and the message of purity of purpose.