Rationale:
Artist statement
This body of work is about creating an exhibition and producing work relating to a venue of the exhibition. I as was part of a collective called Salford shutter UP who as a group decided that as our venue is next the river Irwell and we wanted to do exhibition on crime and evidence we would looked at “The Pusher” and evidence photography. There have 80 deaths in the canals around Greater Manchester in the past six years 28 of which are unsolved. There is rumours that a mysterious serial killer known locally as the Pusher is to blame but the lack of evidence associated with this mysterious serial killer this is unknown. The Pusher received this name as it is believed that they are pushing people in predominately men in to the canals around greater Manchester. But the mystery is if the victims were pushed in the water why wouldn’t they escape or there would be evidence of a struggle or the victim trying to get out of the water but there isn’t. So this inspired me to create a crime scene with macro style images on what evidence I would expect to so at this crime scene after the event has happened. I focused on hand prints and footprints as the handprint has been use throughout our marketing to promote the event so I used as inspiration. There is some evidence to do with certain canal deaths that being linked to The Pusher I didn’t want to recreate the very little evidence that has been found as that would be too personal to the victim’s family and if they had come to our exhibition and saw this work I didn’t want to offend anyone. I decided to try out different prints using canal water to make them to tie back in with “The Pusher” and the venue. I created four images that would pose questions to the audience to what happened in this pusher inspired crime scene.
My images are mix of hand and foot prints all took by the canal banking relating back where these murders have happened.
The first image is of a single foot print facing the canal banking, I decided to create one foot print as I think this adds more mystery to the image and doesn’t look obvious that someone has just stood there as there is only print. It poses more question like where is the other print. Who was that foot print the victim or the pusher?
The second images is of a single hand print this could be viewed as the victims as he is pushed into the water but because you can’t see the water’s edge it could also be “The Pusher” creating a signature to say he has been here and he is claimed his next victim.
The third image is two handprints on the banking but look as if the victim has tried to escape but couldn’t. The watery prints are not perfect so they don’t look staged. I wanted them to look like someone in the water had created the prints by trying to get the water. Therefore poses question if the victim escaped or didn’t? The picture relives nothing making the audience think.
The final image is of a hand and a foot print together, both the hand and the foot are facing away from the banking so at first the footprint indicates that The Pusher has been as the foot is heading away from the scene of the crime. However the hand print confuses that theory as it is so close it could be the victim trying to grab the pusher but misses. The confusion should pose question to audience which is what I want my work to do.
Artist statement
This body of work is about creating an exhibition and producing work relating to a venue of the exhibition. I as was part of a collective called Salford shutter UP who as a group decided that as our venue is next the river Irwell and we wanted to do exhibition on crime and evidence we would looked at “The Pusher” and evidence photography. There have 80 deaths in the canals around Greater Manchester in the past six years 28 of which are unsolved. There is rumours that a mysterious serial killer known locally as the Pusher is to blame but the lack of evidence associated with this mysterious serial killer this is unknown. The Pusher received this name as it is believed that they are pushing people in predominately men in to the canals around greater Manchester. But the mystery is if the victims were pushed in the water why wouldn’t they escape or there would be evidence of a struggle or the victim trying to get out of the water but there isn’t. So this inspired me to create a crime scene with macro style images on what evidence I would expect to so at this crime scene after the event has happened. I focused on hand prints and footprints as the handprint has been use throughout our marketing to promote the event so I used as inspiration. There is some evidence to do with certain canal deaths that being linked to The Pusher I didn’t want to recreate the very little evidence that has been found as that would be too personal to the victim’s family and if they had come to our exhibition and saw this work I didn’t want to offend anyone. I decided to try out different prints using canal water to make them to tie back in with “The Pusher” and the venue. I created four images that would pose questions to the audience to what happened in this pusher inspired crime scene.
My images are mix of hand and foot prints all took by the canal banking relating back where these murders have happened.
The first image is of a single foot print facing the canal banking, I decided to create one foot print as I think this adds more mystery to the image and doesn’t look obvious that someone has just stood there as there is only print. It poses more question like where is the other print. Who was that foot print the victim or the pusher?
The second images is of a single hand print this could be viewed as the victims as he is pushed into the water but because you can’t see the water’s edge it could also be “The Pusher” creating a signature to say he has been here and he is claimed his next victim.
The third image is two handprints on the banking but look as if the victim has tried to escape but couldn’t. The watery prints are not perfect so they don’t look staged. I wanted them to look like someone in the water had created the prints by trying to get the water. Therefore poses question if the victim escaped or didn’t? The picture relives nothing making the audience think.
The final image is of a hand and a foot print together, both the hand and the foot are facing away from the banking so at first the footprint indicates that The Pusher has been as the foot is heading away from the scene of the crime. However the hand print confuses that theory as it is so close it could be the victim trying to grab the pusher but misses. The confusion should pose question to audience which is what I want my work to do.
This images were viewed at the exhibition with the audience looking down on the images so it looks like they investigators gathering evidence.As the area around my images is set-up like a crime scene with yellow numbered markers which were used in the same as in a crime scene to plot evidence. Also i had ruler markers and i wanted at first the crime scene tape was placed across the crime scene at first i wanted the tape to be straight across but actually this works just as well as it still across so no- one can cross it just like a crime but it is more inviting to the audience.
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