I was reading the article that Carole Evans wrote on the website titled "A Fine Beginning", discussing the beginning of Arnatt's work and how he was influenced. She comments on how his work is "humorous, playful, observant" and how he has never ventured further than his own door to take his inspired works of art. His work looking into rubbish dumps was the work that inspired me most to photography decaying food as an initial idea for this project, as he made mouldy, discarded food appear beautiful by using natural lighting (I presume) and close up images of the contents of the tip.
Arnatt has always been someone I recognised as using photography in his artwork, as he refers to himself as an artist and not a photographer, and photographs the things that people call "not worth photographing". Discarded food, bricks, boxes and dog poo are some of the well known objects that Arnatt became artistically obsessed with, leading to an inspiring series of work that brings the beauty back into forgotten things.
As a sort of homage to his unforgettable work, I have decided to begin by emulating his work in the studio as a beginning. At this moment in time, I have so many ideas formulating in my head that I have no time to think and distinguish the good from the bad, and the unrealistic from the achievable. I think to gain more knowledge about what I want to do for my final major project, and show at the final show, I need to experiment as much as possible by emulating famous photographers work with my own spin.
http://www.afinebeginning.com/keith-arnatt/
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