As so far i am really keen on the idea of multiple images, and or playing with the idea of text and images, and while i cant seem to find many on superstitions.
My first thought on multiple images or text was Sophie Calle.
Sophie Calle is a french photographer, instillation artist and writer.
Looking into some of her work i see alot of different techniques and different experimentations.
Her book 'Exquisite pain' Follows a conceptual documenty approach to her journey though japan, and a journey through pain.
"i left for japan on october 25, 1984, unsupecting that this day would mark the beginning of the 92 day countdown to the end of a love affair. Nothing extraordinary- but to me, at the time, the unhappiest moment in my life, and one for which i blamed that trip itself. I got back from France on january 28, 1985, from that moment whenever people asked me how it went, i chose to skip the Far East bit and tell them about suffering instead. In return i started asking both friends and chance encounters: 'when did you suffer most?'- i decided to continue such exchanged until i had got over my pain by compairing it with other people or had worn out my own story through sheer repetition.'
The book starts of a collection of images she took while traveling and away in Japan accompanied by text taken from letters sent or photos of letters recived along side her own work, its a collection and documentry. however each image has stamped on it a day, a count down to this big 'event' she classes as 'unhappyness' the day in which her lover ends it with her. Here it adds a new dimention to the images, while we know that while she seems to be enjoying the experiences that she has the reader is always aware that this big event is coming that will make her unhappy and even voids or makes you sort of miss the connection to the images in some way. As well, the addition of the letters and text makes the seemingly mundane images of some of the photos another dimention. Once we reach the 'D-DAY' as it is, the book changes slightly. one page contains the image on 'the day of unhappyness' at the top section and under it we have a peice that she wrote about that day, the number attached goes up as if 'days after' and the right hand page contains text from a number of different people about there suffering. as the days go on the text that calle wrote about her sufforing becomes transparent and the text slowly disappears as to suggest that her sufforing was fading away to nothing. Even the contents of this book is interesting and uses a grid like set up with thumbnails.
I love calles use of repetition and the way she uses it to compair to the stage in which she was oblivious to the inpending sadness.
this unusal stance is great for my work and explores different ways for me to connect images, and use repetition in an unusal way. it also shows me a not so obvious way to use text, often the text would contrast the images.
I also like the repetition in some of her other works. In her book 'M'as-tuvue' she has a section classed as 'games and ceremonies' which features repetition heavily.
These selections of fun photographic games and ceremonies included images of repatitious graves. instillations of her birthday ritual, and most interestingly she had a friend set her rules of what she had to do in specific cercomstances, instruction to her life as it were, and which she documented. This i really like. the documentation of a specific idea or concept is what i really like about this. its something different, and when i struggle sometime for inspiration it maybe a good idea to take part in some sort of photography game like this? Some of the other games she took part in were relatied to a book her friend wrote in which the character maria was based on her, she did a few projects based on what 'maria' was like and did, and tried to copy it, this is where her images of the 'chromatic diet' came from.
many of sophie calles little projects are very inspirational to me. And i just love some of the ideas ive got from her work.
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