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inside cover
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contents I feel it and it is
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Align
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Mimic Flood plan Remnant
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Submerge
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Horizon
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Element
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Swell
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Experimental video
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Remnant
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I feel it and it is
refined plaster each 200 x 300 x 400mm 2011
‘I feel it and it is’ is a series of three refined plaster casts, Alex, Hazel and Jenny, attempting to capture the negative space created when a body is contorted into the foetal position
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Align
cord, cotton 2000x1200mmx1200mm 2012
For three weeks we drove across Germany; Cologne, Dusseldorf, Kassel, Hamelin, Berlin and back. By our side all the way were pylons, strung out across the landscape as far I could see. Wires transforming tangled webs of grey metal to elegant strands outstretched over dense green forest. I tried to capture this basic element in Align, providing the viewer with the same sense of clarity the pylons provided in passing.
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http://www.hazelstephenson.co.uk/#align
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Location photographs Germany, 2012
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Mimic
mixed media installation dimensions variable 2012 “A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” -Henry David Thoreau
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http://www.hazelstephenson.co.uk/#mimic
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Location photographs Seven Sisters Country Park, 2013
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Experimental photos and drawings Antwerp 2013
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Flood Plan
mixed media installation 2500 x 2000 x 500mm 2013 On a bleak train journey along the east coast main line, after several days of heavy rain I became enthralled by the role reversal in the fields that shouldered the tracks. The hedges which once acted as boundaries, were now the only defining lines of the saturated landscape. They no longer appeared as borders but a maze of grid like pathways. Flood Plan is an automated installation, intended to speak of the transformation of an object in the occurrence of a flood.
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http://www.hazelstephenson.co.uk/#flood-plan
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Remnant charcoal, ink 300x300mm 2013
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From above the remains of the town stood out like shards of something that was once whole
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Submerge
refined plaster, wooden frame 1500x1000x100mm 2013
Submerge is a continuation of the ideas founded in Flood Plan in an abstratced form, exploring the effects of flooding on mountaneous landscapes, causing simple mounds to resemble something all togther more human
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Horizon
fabric, dust sheeting, wooden frame 1500x1000x400mm 2013
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Location photographs Isle of man, 2013
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I arrived in Portland, the most beautifully desolate place I have ever been, surrounded by nothing but white stone, cloudless skies and searingly cold blue sea. For five days the sun scorched the landscape, evaporating every drop of water once held within the rock. Heat and chisel were the only things that seemed to be able to affect the environment. Speaking to a local I learnt the effects fire can have on limestone – turning it into a potentially volatile substance, quicklime. With this in mind I set about building small stone kilns; constructing them in a similar way to which one would a stonewall. The kilns were small, stable and reasonably well insulated. I collected dry wood and seaweed from the endless pebble beach and loaded it into the kilns. I added in my pieces of stone, which I had carved to resemble the sun, and lit the kilns.
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Portland stone 150x200x150mm 2013
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Several hours later the fire burned itself out and the kilns became cool enough to dismantle. Each of the stones that made up the walls were partially masked in a metallic black blanket, as were my suns.
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http://www.hazelstephenson.co.uk/#element
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I carved a second design- this time a concave half sphere, into which I poured a small amount of sea water. I set the stone and its contents upon a high up rock and left it in the baking sun. By the end of the first day the water had completely evaporated, leaving behind a layer of tiny shimmering crystals. Each day I returned to the rock to replenish the sea water, only for it to be evaporated once more.
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Swell
experimentation 2013
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Screen shots from experimental video 2013
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http://www.hazelstephenson.co.uk/#experimental-video
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http://www.hazelstephenson.co.uk/#swell
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Refraction
mixed media installation dimensions variable 2013
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http://www.hazelstephenson.co.uk/#refraction
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