Assignment 5 planning (part 4)

Follow on thoughts re what else I could use to focus or rather limit the scope of my project. Having spent last weekend at the Brighton Biennial and been exposed to some fantastic art, I think the scope of my assignment just expanded rather than contracted....

I'm specifically thinking about John Maclean and his project 'Hometowns' - extract from Night Contact programme:

Photographing the hometowns of ones art heroes. If every image we make is the result of an accumulation of other images, should our artistic influences be a source of anxiety, or a source of ecstasy? Hometowns, takes a reflexive view of the subject of artistic influence. It began life as a line in MacLean’s notebook — 'Photograph the hometowns of your heroes’ — an idea for a layered investigation into the places which influenced the artists whose work has coloured his own. Two years later, that line has become a sixty-five-image photo-homage to a unique group of artists who have been mentors-by-proxy, and an endeavour to untangle the strands that connect Maclean to their work.

Hometown of John Gossage
© the artist 

Hometown of Raymond Moore
© the artist 

This leads me to think about 'found art' in the form of archive photographs of my hometown, combined with my own photographs to develop a 'memory of...' series.