When I visited the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, I saw a particularly interesting piece by Tacita Dean as part of her Woman with a Red Hat exhibition. The piece below is made completely from blackboard and chalk. The detail that has gone into the shading of the chalk is incredible. Also, I have been inspired by the way that Dean created each smaller blackboard and then pieced them together on the wall to create the finished piece, like a jigsaw puzzle. I could use this in my work by photographing something in sections to get finer amounts of detail and then later piecing the individual photographs together for the final result.

I was also drawn to a film that was projected onto the wall, shown below. Dean was able to shoot two different scenes onto the same reel of film by covering one half whilst exposing onto the other and visa versa. This technique is easy to do nowadays with the advances in digital technology that we have, however, at the time this was done, this was not possible to do so easily. I am fascinated by the fact that Dean experimented and figured out how to go about this using the tools that she had to hand which were limited.