Kate Hudson / Themes in Contemporary Art (2022-2023)[SEM1]

WEATHER

as we attempted to record the strong winds on our calton hill trip, i found this the most interesting part of the task, i began to think of other ways this could be done or other processes that could be used to emulate and transfer ‘weather’ to another person. after class today it started to rain heavily, so much so that my window was making noises and the rain started to seep through the wall and drip down a corner of my room. it is a record that there was a storm and that something needs to be fixed.

the idea of something situated in a place it doesn’t belong to reminds me of Olafur Eliasson’s Beauty, 1993. i saw this piece in 2019 at tate modern where an invisible structure allows water to fall like rain with light refracting from it creating a fixed rainbow effect. this is experienced by walking through the installation with its contents attaching to clothes and skin, seeing or not seeing a rainbow from different angles. placing these ‘natural occurrences’ within a gallery space gives the occurrence an added surreal element, allowing us to look at something differently and also how we engage with the material. how much does the visual provide within this piece? when does the visual end or how? from carrying out pressings on calton hill, you can see the markings on the paper and imagine what they could feel like therefore what the actual object, or form it was produced from, feels like.