Video link: http://claireweetman.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/watermark.html

Watermark was a 90 minute intervention on Barbosa Park, Istanbul on 29 March 2012.  Claire painted water onto a course of adjacent paving stones, drawing a line that follows a prominent route taken across that space by pedestrians. The water dries and the line documenting the movement of the people fades and disappears, echoing the temporal nature of people's presence in that place.

I've used the skills picked up at Salford as part of the AA2A scheme to edit this excerpt together, along with the video editing facilities there.  Think this is going to be a really useful thing for my practice as it develops in the coming years.

Unable to embed a video here, so go visit: http://www.claireweetman.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/spread.html to see what i'm on about

Spread is the third in a series of animated drawings onto mountcard.  They take inspiration from Richard Serra's verb works, where he created sculptures in response to words such as 'to roll', 'to crumple' or 'to cut'.  This series started from an animation skills workshop I attended whilst here at Salford on the AA2A, and the 3 works so far have all been made here in some way or other - either physically made here, using the copystand available from the photography studio, or edited using the DV suite.  Spread was made whilst I was out in Istanbul at the end of March, and I've been trying to get to grips with FInal Cut Pro at Salford today.  Still not quite got the hang of it - struggling with ratios and formats, but I've learnt so much just by getting on and doing it - that and the technicians are on hand to give guidance and starting points.

I'm going to continue the series by taking some of the words from Serra's list, but also include words that have an inherent feeling of movement in them too, then create a series of drawings using cut away mountcard.  So far I've made 'descend', 'curve' and 'spread'.  More to follow over the process of time.  Longlist of future words includes:

scatter, pair, surround, lift, follow, fall, shuffle, jump, loop, grow, criss-cross, ramble,

The past 2 fridays I've been attending a workshop at Salfor Uni on Stop Frame media.  Led by the most helpful technicians Craig and Steve, I've been picking up tips on setting up, lighting, image sizes and this week have had my first foray into editing with Final Cut Pro and DVD studio pro.

I spent a couple of hours last week with limited materials and equipment producing and photographing the work, and here's a rough edit of what I've produced http://youtu.be/3Oo_NZfFW60

I've had a fun afternoon today playing with movement and markmaking with 4 students from Salford University.  Hoping it's going to be the start of an exciting part of my residency.  We've taken some of the ideas from my Motus Immotus work and started experimenting with multiple performers creating a drawing.  It's been fun to work with others in this process, and we've got a bit of a plan for what to do next including a drawing on mirrors, a test performance/intervention in the dance studio and hopefully something more public.

An intervention in progress

I've been working at Salford University as part of AA2A for the past 4 weeks, going in on regular Tuesdays to realise a piece of work that I've wanted to make on a larger scale.  And it's been useful.  I'm not sure its entirely successful, but it has brought me to a new idea about how to use the process and a link to some of my more theoretical research.  I've taken a break this week to reflect on the work done so far and to plan more work to come.

So here is the process I followed to create 'Tearing Space Apart (Salford I)'

• A wall is covered in newspaper
• The newspaper is torn off the wall and methodically numbered
• The wall has co-ordinates marked along its edges
• Fragments of newspaper are placed on the wall at randomly allocated co-ordinates
• Each piece of paper is drawn around a number of times with pencil according to its catalogue number
• Lines do not cross
• The fragments of paper are used again, this time they are outlined using powdered graphite according to randomly allocated co-ordinates
• Ends

And some images.  Video documentation to follow.