I am writing this blog in order to create my own moving and developing online version of a visual Journal. The sketchbook for me is the highlight of a project, from the research and the links forged, through to the journey of an idea, I am happily filled with a sense of excitement and purpose, I revel in the unravelling of information and in the development and articulation of the idea and spend hours filtering through sources in order to explain my intentions and let others know the map I have created in my own mind. The sketchbook process allows me to absorb my environment and contemplate my world, it allows me to grow and changes my path every time. To challenge myself in this final year I am endeavoring to try a new way of sharing and archiving my journey, putting aside the pritstick and Scissors, pulling up my chair and putting on my glasses this will now be my Sketchbook.
So here it begins a diary of the idea, growing and moving as I go forward with the project. It is what it is. What it will become ... I have no idea and to you the viewer I make no apologies.

Joseph Derby

Joseph Derby
Cottage on Fire at Night, oil on canvas, ca. 1785-1793

Sunday, 7 November 2010

Apocalyptic monsters - Creating an army

Continuing fantasy worlds ...


Many of the post apocalyptic fantastical landscapes I have discovered are inhabited in some way by a form, sometimes human form, sometimes fictional. In my research I am pulled into two directions, there is the element of sci fi that naturally runs through ideas of the end and then there is the natural landscape that invokes ideas of the sublime with creation and cataclysm. Creation has historical attachments to a time before science and technological development, a time where the imagination created fact from description and writings. Cataclysm has in a postmodern world become a futuristic idea embroiled in hyper reality, science and rapidly progressing digital advancements. 


 Kris Kuksis Imminent Utopia

Zislaw Beksinski