Im back working at the pottery for the time being earning some pennies for spending in London at New Designers . First things first though I should probably write about/ post pics of the Degree Show. This could be easier said than done as most of it was a blur to be honest! Anyway here goes…

My concept for Degree Show didnt change much from the ideas I spoke about in the last post, the idea being that I would focus on process. My process began with the creation of sand timers, from the sand timers I created fast sketches (designs), the sand from the timers was used as a raw product for my outcomes from which I created cast rings.

Because I’m not very good as explaining it without visual aids, have a look at the blurb book I created to go along with my show…

This year, I thought that it would be good if I could somehow intertwine themes that have been present in my work for a while such as; time, impermanence, unusual/unconventional materials, Rhino etc etc.

Basically I have come up with the idea that, for degree show my work will be time based. (How apt when it would appear that we have none!). So far I have created my own time pieces, in Rhino, which I have had rapid prototyped, by Shapeways a company based in Holland. These sand-timers, and the time contained within them, then form the basis for my designs.

* Finished timer with silver sections *

It was fairly cold over the Christmas break too, luckily the frost makes such nice patterns.

Santa’s grotto under the DoJ stairs filled with shiny things!

The idea with this camera is to capture 8 continuous frames each taken a fraction of a second after the other creating a series of images in a time scale from top left to bottom right. In these examples I moved the camera and the subject was still.

Anyway this was just a trial run with this little beauty, I’m hoping to capture some good movement and ‘moment in time’ sequences with this camera in the near future. I think a shot out of a train window when going over a bridge, passing all the support structures would be a winner with this camera… to be continued.

I as you would suspect I have been quite busy between the last post and the present. There has been a dissertation, Goldsmith Boards, Christmas sales, a trip home and back and of course Christmas and New Year.

Some of these events I documented on my film SLR so there is my excuse for not uploading pictures more quickly! (I have no excuses for not typing though, apart from being lazy!) I hope to get some of this stuff posted asap, so i guess you could say watch this space

I shall try, from now on to update this a bit more frequently, if not for the sake of being a better ‘blogger’ but for the sake of getting the mince that is my brain in order…