Day 15

29/5/2013

T. was born on 14 May and the past two weeks have been something of a dream... Time is measured according to his age in days and returning now to my blog – to life and thoughts before Day 0 – is quite a jolt.

I'd spent the day before his birth in the studio, experimenting with my pyramid maquettes. Work was difficult, having to sit down to take photographs; slow and clumsy manoeuvring my props. The few images I shot are perhaps more like documents of sculptural / installation pieces than video stills – the projections and surface textures are hard to capture on camera and it seems important to be able to move around the objects to view their different facets. (I think of Sinta Werner's large format slide works Broken bits of pieces.) Or perhaps they are assemblages to be filmed, miniature sets to explore with a roving lens rather than a static camera. (I think of Charlotte Moth's Study for a 16mm Film)...

Studio test, video projection over tetrahedron maquettes

1 Comment

Lolly Atherton

13/11/2017 10:33:30 am

how did you create the pyramid maquettes, what materials did you use?
Brillant work and look forward to your reply

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Michaela Nettell is an artist and filmmaker based in London.

I work across moving image, photography and installation, creating works that explore the potential of projection and collage techniques to affect relations of space, optics and memory.

Recent and current works explore relationships between man-made and natural forms, particularly in the urban environment. My ongoing 1964 Series documents incidences of non-orthogonal structures in post-war city architectures, making reference to Frank Lloyd Wright's 'organic architecture' and the hexagonal plan. Colours and patterns of beehives and the honeycomb recur in my work and I often limit my palette to black, white, yellow and blue – Austrian ethologist Karl von Frisch's Colours inside an apiary.

www.michaela-nettell.com

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