So – having managed to bag a solo exhibition, I need to think about what I want to include.
I’ve got quite a lot of freedom; as many images as I want, whatever size I want, any theme/content I want.
What I want to do is shoot some stuff specifically for the exhibition – it isn’t until January and they only need the final mounted work a couple of weeks before, so I have plenty of time.
However, I want to have a narrative for it and I’m not getting any stunning ideas at the moment.
I’ve only had two ideas so far.
The 1st has been around the idea of things being in plain sight and yet ‘hidden’, either because we don’t notice them or we stop noticing them because we see them so often. I was thinking about things like the person painted on the side of the house in Cannes, which nobody seems to pay any attention to but that in the photo I took of it, it jumps out amid the jumble of the old town.
I was also thinking about those little gems you find on buildings, or benches, railings and the like. Little pieces of architectural interest that people don’t seem to have the time to see.
I’m not sure I could hang an entire exhibition on it as a theme though.
My 2nd idea was some kind of representation of time – a day in the life of… Or even just a representation of how different times of the day/night are ‘owned’ by different people. I was thinking about things like when I hear my neighbour come home at 2am (he is a taxi driver), or my other neighbour who works shifts in a bakery. Or the kids on their way to school, or the people in suits commuting to London on the station every morning.
I think I like this idea because I am sometimes surprised by the kinds of people I see when I’m in a known location at non-standard (for me) times. It’s fascinating seeing how the train station changes depending on commuter rush-hour, school run, office workers, shoppers, teenagers and people not working, etc. And then how it all changes back again as the flood turns back the other way.
Hmmm, need to think a bit more.
