Saturday 22 June 2013

The Blog Header Chronicles (Part One?)

I'm sure I have very few regular visitors.  If you are a regular visitor you may have noticed that the header for my blog has been changing on quite a regular basis. 



It started on New Years Day 2013.  
I decided to change my Blog header.  
I incorporated an image of myself making artwork.  
I soon realised this may seem a little bit self absorbed.
So I tweaked it slightly. 
I decided that my photograph was perhaps too big and in your face.  
Also I felt that it needed more going on in in the rest of the image.
Soon I realised that I could keep evolving my Blog header throughout the year
Changing the header once per Blog entry.  
That the original image could fall backwards
New boundaries could keep creeping in around a shrinking image.  
Each image could then be saved and eventually put together into an animation.
How long this animation is eventually going to be I have no idea 
but I do enjoy the premise of it.  
At the moment my artwork is going through a transitional phase
I'm producing much more thoughts than actual artworks.
I'm going through ideas - looping endless pitiless ideas
None of which are written down anywhere but they are fairly sticky
They tend to stay around if they are good.  
Or at least if I think they are good.
Back on topic - which is my Blog header.  
My blog is called Obsessive Static Polarities and Recursions. 
I've thought that by New Years Day 2014 I may finished developing my banner 
Closing it off into a recursive loop - so that it will eventually come back onto itself.
I will hopefully actually be able to make the heading of my blog animated.  
Not sure if it will let me do this hopefully a GIF file will work.
Would a big flashy animated Blog header be really annoying?
Do I want to be annoying?
Also how would I go beyond that?  Where could I progress to?
Do I just stick with an animated header forever?  
Although my artwork is quite recursive I don't revel in recursions.
I just obsess about them.
Recursions are the most terrifying thing ever.  
I love the idea that there is some kind of final end.  
That one day it'll all go dark and we won't have to do anything anymore.
I want some opportunity to put a spanner in the wheels of everything.
This would allow me to just jump off for a moment and view everything at standstill.  
Rotations ceased - everything stopping and me just stood on the edges of everything.
I would probably be stood very still  - there's not much to stand on at the edge of everything.

Look above.  Up there.  To the right of the above image.
You can't NOT have noticed I've appeared in my blog header again.
Wearing my red suit and looking my most swish.
My most narcissistic and self absorbed. 

Failure in my initial attempts not to be self absorbed 
I've looped back on myself and there I am - I'm staring right at me now
Frozen on the edge of everything.
Is that progression?
YES. 
It's a progression.  
In the first photograph I had my head down and I was working hard. 
In the new photograph I'm preening myself and standing idly around 
Next to a badly integrated door.  


TO BE CONTINUED (forever?)

2 comments:

  1. I love this project, and your work is really interesting and fun. I'm looking forward to seeing what is next.

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    1. Glad you enjoy my work. Your website is great http://www.karenhyams.com like your photography it's very visceral and bizarre - I like abstract photography.

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