reentering darkroom

so last week i was finally granted acess to the unis darkroom facilities..i took advantage of this and hammered out some fresh black and white prints.
I'm used to a wet darkroom so using drypoint is a bit bizzare...no waiting around for your print to dry or endless dipping in tanks. It's rather brilliant.
Anyway the majority of these shots were taken on a 2 and a half exploration around norwich with liam and guy..I used my perferated filter to achieve the effect on some of the photos..hope you enjoy
feedback greatly appreciated :)

Perferated

These shots were taken using a perferated filter which i simply fit into my zoom lense..I had to use a step down filter in order for it to fit. This film is also multi processed ( which means i wound it through the camera twise for some interesting and pot luck results :)
enjoy.

Containment sculptures

My work desk at uni and its weird and wonderful contents. Thanks to Laura for the camera lend :)

My desk

Memento Mori - Remember you will die

Chicks

Ship in a bottle

A work in progress..bones in plaster, im currently growing crystals end results will be posted soon after

Swin flu

 

Orginal photo credits: Daniel Johnson

Locusts

Im now in my third project at uni and have been placed in the sculpture work area. I'm glad to be working further into this area but decided to take a fresh idea and work into it in detail.
I gave myself the title  'containment'
Ive prduced a desk full of works and spent a good few bob in charity shops and the 99p shop
I havent got round to documenting my desk yet but watch this space!!

I'm also looking at the notion of life and death...comedy/tradgedy.
I was back in Ipswich at the weekend for my new tattoo ( comedy tragedy mexican day of the dead skulls :D)
and decided to buy some locusts from a pet shop; my original intention was to just include them as part of a sculpture.. but i took them home moved them into a larger container and fed them some grass...I decided that I will use them as part of a sculpture but I want to keep them as pets and let them die or natural causes...they would have just been eated by lizards anyway..I find their colours and markings visually pleaseing and They are good to draw too.
So anyway here are some photos I took using rosies DSLR last night...enjoy

^Escape artist^