More Ideas...

• Exploring ritual spirituality as a means of counteracting displacement... deriving a sense of hope from the 'waste land' whilst simultaneously learning how ritual can embrace spirituality, and visa versa.
• Playing with my particular metaphor of ritual process, and how it embodies a sense of transformation and change... suggesting a transcending of the wasteland, or the possibility of eventually being able to do so?
• Considering how the use of the alphabet letters incorporate a sense of play in their use of navigating the wasteland... expressions of hope and journey towards self- reconciliation? The messages they express however need changing to lighten the mood and to steer my work away from religious satire and criticism... I don't want to dictate a fear of displacement to the viewer, just to show an exploration, delibiration and then movement towards more optimistic possibilities.
• I want my rituals to embrace spirituality, but perhaps I need a sense of spirituality to embrace my rituals (an inherently my fears of displacement)
• Also perhaps need to conceptually define the mechansim of hope that will carry me on the next stop...
• Consider Sartre's 'reflective consciousness', and Heidigger's notions of the Imagination rendering us homeless, (in our sense of being and belonging) and Kant similar notion of the imagination being nomadic.
• Remeber properties of artist's works (such as Brian Dettmer and Nathan Coley) and how they use texts as objects and enable them to become something else... CONSIDER THIS IN OWN WORK... what kind of objects can they become? Will also carry on using fire as the ritualistic metaphor and medium for appropriating and transforming text... melted letters experiments... how do I further and develop these to take my project to the next level?  

POSITION STATEMENT... MARCH 2011

• Less literal literary allusion to the 'wasteland'... return to the T.S.Eliot and pick out my original instinctive choices... 
• 'Hope' and 'Wasteland' are cyclical processes... CANNOT HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER... there is always an essence of hope in the wasteland, and aspects of wasteland within our hopes...
• not continuing the idea of the letter pyre... will experiement with the laser cut quote (having letters/wax melted over and around them) on a smaller, more singular scale
• Video editing can be simple and succinct... the content holds the most visual power, and not the editiing effects...
• Also make a video consisting simply of the blurred, distorted shots [visual representation of the in- between; the wasteland]
• CONCENTRATE ON VIDEO RATHER THAN GETTING CARRIED AWAY WITH IDEAS OF INSTALLATIONS
• Sound as an integral expression of the notion of the wasteland, correlating with movement, representation of literary [T.S.Eliot] wastelands...

• IDEA OF MELTING ALPHABET LETTERS AND WAX MIXES INTO WOODEN LETTER MOLDS... CREATING MY OWN FORMULATIONS OF HOPE AND THE WASTELAND...