- Thesis Outline

What do you want your thesis to be about? Introduction (500 words)


Three strands of thought could be considered in my practice. Researching the photographic medium, but also the idea of 'seeing' in itself, making the (gay) cinematic language my own, and LGBT issues/identity. In the thesis I would like to investigate further on the above mentioned lines of thought and by doing so reflecting on my own practice. 

In the first chapter I will do this by looking at my past and current work, the chapter will be divided in three parts. First I will talk about my photographic practice and work. Then I will address my use of video and my interest in gay cinema, and lastly I will formulate how these two overlap thematically and aesthetically.

In chapter two I will look at the broader context of my work, how it relates to other practitioners/writers. This will be divided in two parts. In part one I will look at the photographic medium, and the artists in that field that I feel related to, for example Wolfgang Tillmans. In part two I will look at gay cinema, what gay or queer cinema is and how it developed and by doing so looking at artists that have inspired me (Kenneth Anger, Gregg Araki etc.).

In the final chapter I will make a conclusion/reflection on the development of my process throughout the year.

Chapter one, past and current work (2000)

Photography:

To understand my current methodology and work I have have to look back at my previous graduation project. In 2012 I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht where I studied Visual Communication with photography as main focus. 

For my graduation project I made an installation and photo book dummy with digital and analogue photo’s, incorporating self-portrait collages together with found footage from strangers’ family albums, microscopical images created in collaboration with a cancer research institute in Utrecht, pictures of the sun, the moon as well as abstracted images of taken in the surroundings of my own family’s home. The starting point for this project consisted out of the idea of de-baptization and photographing holy water under the microscope.


Images from graduation project