Susan Derges

Chladni figure, 1985

"I started to make some images where I caused the photographic paper itself to undergo an event. In the first instance it was to vibrate the photographic paper in the darkroom with sound and to allow powder on the surface of the paper to form into a series of patterns that were called 'chladni' figures."

The Observer and the Observed, 1991

Paper sculptures, tributes to literature and the creative impulse

Anonymous sculptures created out of books with notes "in support of libraries, books, words, ideas..." have been popping up around Edinburgh's libraries, and even a cinema. More information HERE. These fill me with such joy. Art being borne of a love of other types of art, for the sole purpose of giving back in spirit. It is such a beautiful (not just aesthetically beautiful) thing to see.

Wolfgang Tillmans

A constant plight of the art student is that everything has already been done before. Exhibit A: Mr. Tillmans. He has stolen my ideas, and made them 1,000,000,000,000X better. Dammit to hell!

Ulf Lundin: From Darkness

(2002) The people that I portray in this series have been sitting alone by themselves in total darkness and haven’t been aware of when the picture will be taken and the flash would lighten up their face. In traditional photography portraiture there is a romantic impression that the photographer should capture the true personality of the person in front of him in one single picture. Here the starting point is the opposite.