Black Glove - Jan 19 2008This is from a series of fotographs that I started to take last year as part of the 'lost souls' instalation, it was intended purely as a one off and appeared in the February exhibition at the Kendal Warehouse Gallery - colour charles and black exhibition. At that time there were only around 7 gloves that I had found discarded around the streets and prompted an idea that these items, like homeless persons, had once been cherished and now, lost or discarded lay around the streets, a glove, an umbrella, shoe or even, on occasion, a shirt or jacket. Like all homeless persons these items had all been seen and ignored by the hundreds, if not thousands of people that walked past them in the street.
my interest in this has somehow become a habbit and now number around 70 in total, not all collected but all fotographed and await, like a homeless person, a place in life, for these lost souls an audience to be listened too.
Now, Jan 19th and the continuance of my research and marketing continues, the latter a much more painful process for the 'blowing of ones trumpet' is something that I am not akin to and find much difficulty in self promotion albeit a most important aspect of my career as it stands at present.
the first two weeks of the year have been fruitful though extremely tiring, last week clocking up over 90 hours of graft that left me physically and mentally tired, nay exhausted, my eyes stinging and aching from long hours working in front of a computer monitor not nearly as restful as a canvas, my head spinning even but, it proved to be fruitful with 3 other blogs underway with intent to showing all of the pages of my sketchbooks this project itself has to be reassessed as the software seems unable to manage such a rapid download of so many images, for this reason there are only a small percentage of images on the first site which comprises of images from my 2007/8 book, so far I have downloaded the second half of the year and will make attempts to get the first 6 months down this week, these can be seen at http://charlessketchbook.blogspot.com/ i feel sure, ever the optomist, trial and error, success and failure but most of all dedication will prevail and right itself one way or the other.
each of the blogs is linked to each other in addition to being linked to both the onemillionproject website onemillionproject.synthasite.com/ and my facebook pages.
The website is coming along a treat with deletions and additions in small part all coming together to make something that is starting to look quite worthy.
I have made a good start on local self promotion aswell and can now start to see the fruit of my labors as my mailing list now reaches 172, many are subject to confirmation though at around 90 per week even a small percentage over the coming year will provide a good start to 2010.
Also this week I took my first step of the learning curve that is film-making, it is something that captured my imagination in college though only now feel able to entertain as a serious professional venture and have decided to start right at the beginning with stop motion animation and, as tatty as it is, it allows a starting point and allows for more than a bit of optimism!!!!! it is probably one of the shortest clips in animation history comprising of 23 frames and 6 seconds. off to purchase some plasticine tomorrow!!!
I forgot my excuses for the movie............................. I have none it is just c*** but allows me to utilise one of my favorite motto (and most used)
from little acorns..................
Monday evening ends as Tuesday morning arrives were do the days go, coffee time having just struggled through emailing 40 Limited Edition prints, not a greatly exciting task though one that is most time consuming and draining with average completion times of each individual taking between 11 and 7 minutes per e-mail, still, the first 40 done for today and a numb rear end for the effort.
