Sam Taylor-Wood

Sam Taylor-Wood makes photographs and films that examine, through highly charged scenarios, our shared social and psyschological conditions. Taylor-Wood’s work examines the split between being and appearance, often placing her human subjects – either singly or in groups – in situations where the line between interior and external sense of self is in conflict. Her languid and silent film portrait of David Beckham, for example, which was shot in a single take, offers a serene alternative to this most intensively photographed celebrity. In Prelude in Air (2006) Taylor-Wood filmed a musician playing a piece of cello music by Bach, but the cello itself has been erased. Likewise, in Breach (Girl and Eunuch) (2001), a girl is portrayed sitting on the floor in the throes of grief, but the sound of her tears has been removed. In the celebrated film Still Life (2001), an impossibly beautiful bowl of fruit decays at an accelerated pace, creating a visceral momento mori. Taylor-Wood has also explored notions of weight and gravity in elegiac, poised photographs and films such as Ascension (2003) and a series of self-portraits (Self Portrait Suspended I - VIII) that depict the artist floating in mid air without the aid of any visible support. In her film The Last Century (2006), what appears to be a static image of a group of people slowly reveals itself to be a real, filmed take, timed to the length of a burning cigarette: the film is entirely static apart from the involuntary blinking, twitching and barely-visible breathing of four motionless actors, all arranged around a central figure as if in a group portrait painted by Rembrandt or Caravaggio. Recently, Taylor-Wood directed her first narrative short film, Love You More (2008), with a script by Patrick Marber. Sam Taylor-Wood was born in London in 1967

Although Taylor-Wood is quite a different type of artist and doesn't take pictures of destruction by or in nature... i found one of her pieces of work very interesting. This is called "Still Life" I have added this work below.

My interpretation

I thought this piece of work was very inspiring as it conveys so many meanings. The fact that there is a pen in the corner, that displays how everything is perfectly fine compared to the decaying nature, is by itself very effective... it gives us a contrast between the man made item and the natural world.
Even though this artwork contradicts my idea behind nature being stronger than man made objects... it is very helpful to see the contrasting views and base my work around that.

Below are a few movies that i created as a draft idea of what i would like to look at. These are all still images that i made a movie out of, using Final Cut Pro.
The reason behind doing this, is to build up a library of images and movies that would help me decide on what i want to do with my final idea. So far, i have thought about creating a small slide show of the different small impacts our word goes through... going close up deep into the cracks, then slowly building up to show an image with lots f destruction going on.

THE CRACK

The idea behind this picture is that nature can make the man made concrete ground weaken and break apart. 
I like the concept behind this idea, however it looks quite rough and i would need to make sure i spend more time trying to make them look better using photoshop. (As i edited the cracks on photoshop itself)