Still can't upload my videos..grrrr!!!

Harriet Hoff
harriet.hoff@yahoo.co.uk
07787882170

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these are just work in progress remember!!

playing in the photography studio

ive been playing in the photography studio as i said earlier, except now, blogger is letting me upload the images. im learning to use the camera and lighting...im a photography virgin! 

franco B 'Belgrade"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liNlb7fTL7o

franco B

i was recently introduced to the work of Franco B by a fellow student... i found the piece 'Belgrade' really powerful and inspiring but i dont think ill be bleeding for my art!!!  check you tube link Franco B

I've been in the photography studio playing....



Harriet Hoff harriet.hoff@yahoo.co.uk 07787882170 Sent from my iPhone

untitled

'untitled'

a performance piece about the masks we wear, the rituals we (women) perform and hidden identity.

im also interested in exploring the question of 'is it important to the piece that i perform or can i use someone else?' so im looking for willing victims at present....

my continuing string obsession

The creative flow has returned, I've been filming again, it seems I am more and more involved in performance, it challenges me more than any other form I've tried so far, well for now! Looking at the female form in my practice at present and doing a bit of Reading up on feminism... A vast topic I'm finding! Have a bit of an obsession with string too which has featured in the last few performance pieces I've done.

Harriet Hoff
harriet.hoff@yahoo.co.uk
07787882170

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reading 'THE' art book....'ways of seeing' by john berger, id totally recommend it.

1st day at uni today, filled with anxiety and excitement.

checking out this Josephine King exhibition this week at The Riflemaker gallery, london...

http://www.riflemaker.org/s-now#jose

Hmmm.... It seems not?!

Just testing to see if I can email images from phone to blog?????

Having a bit of a brain block time... I'm sure my tutor at WMC would have said to just go DO something rather than THINKING about doing something!!

Exhibitions I've been to this summer:

-Tate Britain. Mike Nelson 'Coral reef'
And Francis Alys 'guards'

-The Photographers gallery. Sally Mann 'The family and the land'

-National Portrait gallery. Bp award

-Tate Britain. Kathy Noble 'Fragments'

-Wellcomme Collection. 'Skin'

-Tate Modern. Francis Alys 'A story of deception'
and 'Exposed' voyerism, surveillance and the camera.

Didn't make it to the whitechapel, got distracted in Oxford street, opps!
Try again tmmrw

Thinking of heading over to The Whitechapel gallery today, lots of good stuff on. http://www.whitechapelgallery.org

Good box Bad box.

I was working on a project about home and comort. As a part of the
project I wrote down every address I've ever lived at... 42 in total
so far (i have shares in a removal company!!).
I wrote a memory for each address on a piece of paper. I put them into
2 boxes, one with GOOD memories, the other BAD.
I decided to carry the BAD box around with me for 24 hours to see what
it brought up.
What did it bring up? A bit of a bad vibe really. I was physically
carrying around the baggage of the past.
The box has since been destroyed...Good!

Good box bad box

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'Vulnerable'


This is last in a series of about 10 photos...you cant get what its all about without the other 9 and as usual i cant find them...clever!! 
note to self: get organised.


But it was again about the vulnerability of the female form. When i look at it now it seems quiet literal but the way it was installed was very important. The photos were printed on bog standard paper 3x4inches each. They were pinned to the wall with a single dressmaking pin. They were placed just above a radiator so they actually fluttered as the heat rose. Really i should sort out my images andjust show you rather than twittering on...

number 4!!!!

hmm number 4 of 4 is the wrong way up and i am so useless with technology, so i cant post number 4...you'll have to use your own imaginations and create your very own number 4.

The body

'Untitled' 3 of 4


see previous...

The body

'Untitled' 2 of 4


see previous blurb!!

The Body

'Untitled' 1 of 4


This was a project on the body. Its about vulnerability and the female form (something that crops up a lot in my work).
I used photocopies and photography. The final prints where full colour A3 prints.

The Bed

'Untitled' 
(dimenstions approx L:2m x W:1/2m x H:2m)


This was my second project at WMC. An installation around fear and abandonment.
I made the bunk-bed from scratch as it had to be a scaled down version of a bed. 

So now I've sussed out how to blog a bit I can begin...
I'm hoping I can work out how to upload images as I want to use my blog as a space to show my work ( I'm an art student) and see how I grow in my practice throughout my degree.
I have just finished and passed with flying colours an access in art & design at The Working Mens College in Camden. It's been a great journey and I've learnt a lot about art & about myself.
I previously worked as a fashion stylist but got so fed up with the industry that I quit & took some time out to plan a fresh start.... I only did the access course as a bit if theraputic fun...well it seems I have talent, I flew through loving every high & low and recieved merits & distinctions. So I applied to several uni's to do a degree in fine art... And blow me down I got accepted into Chelsea School of Art & Design, wow!!!
I'm very excited about starting uni although a bit anxious as I'm not a spring chicken anymore but hey I am definatly young at heart, I'll be fine!!???!!???

Haha I now know how to email to my blog, yeahhh