This is from a paper bag that i did quick sketches on while Darina (sister in the photos!) was moving in and out of yoga postures. I did drawings this way so that i was forced to do them quickly to get a feel for the movement.

Taking shapes from the body and repeating them making a pattern, piece from sketchbook:)

A couple from the sequence of photos i took of him moving/jumping/dancing around. I like the blurring of the arms as they are moving-tracing the movement. I like trying to capture the body moving in mid air.

Louis Greenfield is one of the first photographers i discovered when i started researching the body and dance. Alot of her photos seem impossible and thats part of why I love them. She captures the power and strength of the body as well as the dancers in a moment.

“I’ve spent the last 25 years of my photographic career investigating movement and its expressive potential. My inspiration has always been photography’s ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see. My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine. What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer, but that the viewer knows, or suspects, really happened. I want my images to defy logic, or as Salvador Dali wrote, I strive to “systematize confusion and discredit reality.” I can’t depict the moments before or after the camera’s click, but I invite the viewer’s consideration of that question."

Louis Greenfield. 

First photo video with music...

From week 1, I started taking sequences of photos to show the body in movment. This is the first video so its fairly dodgey but you get the idea! Meet the crazy ginger! and of course the blues brothers:)

Let's Dance!

"The one thing in life that can solve most of your problems is DANCING" James Brown!

First project-Movement and Motion. And there was the perfect excuse to research my favourite things, Dancing, Morocco and Colour! I wanted to capture the movement of the body in dance and compare it to the movement of Arabic Script. I discovered Louis Greenfield who photographs dancers in motion and is AMAZING. Her photographs almost seem impossible as she captures the dancers mid air, they're great. She inspired me to go mad with the camera! I started taking photos of people dancing, mostly my sister doing yoga and my brother dancing/loosing his mind! I tried to capture every movement so from them i was able to create videos. I love the way Eadweard Muybridge does his sequences of photos to show the motion, I wanted to experiment with the same idea.

Turning the photos into videos i was able to speed up and slow down photos and add music which gave them rhythm. I drew from the body in motion and also from the photos i took. I used the photos and drawings to imitate arabic script, they all have a similar movment and flow.

I moved on to take the shapes of movement from the body in motion. From these i created shapes and hung them from the ceiling. I photographed the shapes as they moved with the wind and also the shadows. I used these again to make videos. As the shapes interacted they looked like they were dancing with each other. I worked alot with the shapes and the arabic script. Also my learning of Arabic looks like it's gunna take a while! Now along with working on the mobiles i've gone back to the quick gesture drawings i did. With these i'm using wire to recreate them in 3D, i want the movements in wire to look like they are just drawings in 3D which is the effect the wire gives. And now it would appear that I am rambling! That ill do donkey. that ill do. The videos and photos will explain better!