Small group tutorial with tutor on 5th February.

Chosen unedited images.

Discussion about our exercise on the theme 'Consumption'. I shot images of discarded items left on Dollymount beach. After viewing these images we moved onto a discussion of how to show the work; I was interested in a gallery context. Initially I had thought of displaying images in perspex cubes or boxes. TM suggested a move away from this. How else to present? 

TM's  proposal of printing the work on bags, key rings or t-shirts was interesting in that a move away from expected forms of showing work can lead to an expansion of how the work is perceived and also developed. I liked the idea of printing on paper bags. TM's suggestion of an exhibition in which work was printed in these ways and then presented to the viewer, perhaps as gifts to take away was refreshing and compelling. I often find myself bored and losing interest in photography and the limitations that seem to surround the way it is presented; the idea that there are more provocative forms of presentation is compelling to me. 

TM asked for ideas of how else I could print the work, I suggested a cheap, disposable paper, similar to the waste paper that is left behind itself. TM asked how the presentation could be expanded further and proposed bringing in the waste materials into the gallery itself. I found this session very interesting in that it got me thinking about possibility of expanding, developing and presenting work, Afterwards I thought of printing the work on cheap paper, crumpling it up and forming a kind of heap or sculpture on the gallery floor; or asking audience participation, in which they are invited to either print or take a page and discard it on the gallery floor. I found it refreshing that opening up our conservative thoughts of presentation can lead to further development.