Chaology / Drawing Light by Tess Hurrell (November 29, 2009) 
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I, like most magazine editors or publishers I’d imagine, spend most of my time stuck behind a desk reading emails, considering or editing texts, opening or sealing letters, looking through books and reviewing portfolio submissions from photographers and artists. Most of what I review, sadly, is not up to much – either being technically or conceptually underdeveloped – but occasionally I get to see new work, which is accomplished on all levels and this is what keeps me here at my desk and happy. This week I am pleased to present some projects - by photographers based in the UK - that have recently made me excited about being involved in photography.
Note: When I say that work is technically accomplished, it is not about the practitioners' ability to use a camera – I am not a techno or stylistic bully – but is about the use of the camera in a way that suits the subject matter being explored. This may be the worn and torn remnants of a personal archive or the beautifully lit and photographed result of a studio project.
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On Chaology. This series grew from a fascination with the visual power of the photographed explosion. These silent and still forms are created from images of explosions caught at a point of expansion.
Source material includes the received images from Hiroshima, nuclear tests, the space shuttle disaster, burning oil and white phosphorus bombs.
The sculptural forms are created from cotton wool, talcum powder, paint and pipe cleaners.
Chaology is about the ironic beauty of these formations; the impossible fragmented time that the camera allows, and my distance from the reality of these mediated events.
The physical creative act is an important aspect to this work, merging the contradictions of human nature: the instinct to both create and destroy.
Drawing Light extends an interest in perceptions of space and sculpture within the photographic image. They are a series of constructed light abstractions, that represent an imagined and metaphysical space within a realist framework.
Within a makeshift, workshop environment light sources, objects and reflective materials have been playfully experimented with.
Gordon MacDonald is head of publications at Photoworks and editor of Photoworks magazine.
Tess Hurrell (1975) lives and works in London, UK.
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What is it?
Snow?
Cotton?
I kinda like it, but I don’ t love it so much.
X-X-X.
Oh,
this makes much more sense than the previous “work”.
I particularly like the one which looks like the Space Shuttle explosion… Not sure it’s meant to look like that but… nice interesting effect. Simple.. but nice.