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Venus of the Velodrome

Concept idea for a short film, part I.

Vintage Vacuum

Three concept images to illustrate an experimental short film project involving vintage fashion and vintage vacuum cleaners in destitute surroundings.

Vintage Vacuum - Series of short films.

A perfectly made up woman in 1930s to 50s vintage fashion & styling uses a vacuum cleaner from the same period in derelict or unusual surroundings. The main theme is the startling contrast between the perfection of the vintage model and the run-down, chaotic surroundings. The use of the vacuum cleaner seems like a desperate attempt to create order in this chaos. The question if everything was simpler and better in the ‘Old Days’ springs to mind. This clean-up operation of the derelict surroundings can be seen as a symbolic act - but is it not ultimately futile? Why try and keep up appearances when the world around us is in turmoil and falling down? Stereotypes and established social roles are questioned: Whereas 1930s society saw a woman’s place mainly in the home and cleaning how out-of-place does this seem today? Yet aren’t women still the ones forced to clean up the mess men leave behind: Wars, the banking crisis, environmental disasters? 

A wide shot establishes the setting, the vacuum cleaning woman enters the scene from one side with the typical, slow, backwards-forwards motion of hoovering. It is an almost religious, meditative, ritualistic repetitive movement. The woman slowly hoovers through the shot and exits on the other side, the camera lingers on the empty scene. 

This routine is repeated a various different locations: On a run-down council estate, inside a derelict building, amongst the chaos of a busy train station, in a disused quarry, on a rubbish dump, on an oil-contaminated beach, on a scrapyard with burnt-out cars, etc.

(c) knuk 2011

Roadkill

Concept for a repeat fabric print

A recent study showed that insects, too, are prone to a very high risk of roadkill incidence. Research showed interesting patterns in insect/butterfly road kills in relation to the vehicle density. Although the insect community is equally at risk, much of the attention goes to bigger, more charismatic animals.

Concept for Art Car paint scheme

Virtual installations using QR codes

Concept for virtual artworks in areas where a real installation might be deemed too intrusive, this could be a nature reserve or any other sensitive area.

The virtual installation can be used as a means to visualise the project in its proposed location to gain backing for its future realisation.

Concept for large scale origami in Richmond Park

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