Aoife van Linden Tol first video of making my work.

I was very excited to have made my first video piece for the exhibition Emblem - Deconstructed and Destroyed: A homage to John Latham. The piece simple documents the process and gives an insight to the viewer as to how I made the works.
As with John Lathams One Second Drawing series, the receiving object is marked within a fraction of time, a moment of instant physical change. The precarious balance between control and chance giving each piece a unique expression of time and visual interpretation.

Filmed on the evening of the 20th of October in the woods behind Trinity. I created a series of works from vintage books I had collected over the past few years and various black powders. I was delighted to have one of my favorite photographers Alex Welensky, as camerawoman. She was able to capture my process with slightly abstract views giving the piece a wonderful mysterious atmosphere.

  There are five examples run one after the other and runs for 11minutes. It is not really intended to be watched all the way through, although it can be and many people did so at the opening, rather something that runs continuously in the gallery space and can be watched as and when.

I think I need develop the sound for the piece. The bangs themselves are important to include I feel but audio still needs some resolution. There were many wonderful sounds such as banging the nails in one piece, turning the book, the clinking of the jars of black powder and the sound of the black powder being sprinkled onto the paper.  Much of this is lost due to the  background noise, something to do with the architecture amplifying the sound from the road and the Weatherspoon's opposite! I look forward to working on it further and to making new films...I've got the bug now!

Here is the Link: http://vimeo.com/30903934