Leeds Art Gallery

Ergin Carvusoglu

`Poised in the Infinite Ocean'

A three screen video installation and sound.

Leeds City Art Gallery.

Across the three video screens a story unfolds, a storm rages with flashes of lightening illuminating the dark night. The lighthouse flashes its warning lights. From the narration we learn that there is an old, unseaworthy ship tossing about on the ocean. The effective technique of looping the visual images and narration over and over, never tells us the fate of the ship, the film and soundtrack work together to amplify and evoke a sense of danger.

Paper Making

We've been working alongside Collette and other third year students, assisting in preparations of their final pieces of work for the forthcoming exhibition. This was a good opportunity to discuss development of ideas and influences. Collette was inspired by the fashion designer Hussein Chalayan.Hussein Chalayan.

The Common Place Object

The use of typography and text in film posters and advertising interests me.

Film poster by Saul Bass Saul Bass. A bold graphic use of text and image, that is reminiscent of the decoupe figures Matisse made in later life.

Separations I produced for a screenprint in an earlier project.

Kitchen implements are de-familiarized when removed from their usual environment. The addition of words, associated with their use convey a sense of ambiguity, are they familiar kitchen implements or weapons?

Clouds and Reflections

Photography has proved to be a very useful tool to capture and record initial responses and ideas.

Reflections of clouds in the stream, in these photographs the sky is brought down to the ground. Only a faint ripple on the surface of the water informs you that you are gazing into a stream.

Spaces between Earth and Sky.

Evening light illuminates the cloud with a sense of drama.

I've discovered that working in series on these cloudscapes photographs is the best way to capture the movement of clouds. I wanted to portray a sense that along with the clouds moving that the earth is also revolving.

Reflecting on my own practice

Almost at the end of the first year of the Art & Design (interdisciplinary) course. looking back at my own work and practice over this past year, I can see a development and cohesion of my ideas.

JamesTturrell James Turrell ` ...Light, something most people take for granted, as a material to make art,...light can be seen as a thing, not merely as a phenomenon.'

"The sky always seems to be out there, away from us. I like to bring it down in close contact with us, so you feel you are in it." James Turrell creates Skyscapes installations, apertures allowing the natural light and shadows to play on the interior surfaces. Turrell 's Deer shelter at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park inspired me in the making of Factory Dreams slide show

The Dress

Responding to Collette's request for help, I've been assisting her in the construction of The Dress.

The Dress is a construction of metal and recycled, waste materials.

Collette collects from supermarkets the stubs from the plastic bags at the checkout. The layers of plastic are fluffed up and then dipped in plaster and left to set before being attached with pins to chicken wire.

Fluffing up the plastic,

mixing plaster, dipping the shapes in the plaster, cutting wire pins, tying the solid forms onto the wire and paper making are tasks that I've undertaken.

Science Lab and Pegs

Bev constructing a science lab from cardboard.