Friday, 20 January 2012

SEMESTER 2 - SCULpTURE & PRINT



The 3 Electives I choose are

Sculpture & Combined Media
 Print
        Graphics Design/Visual Communications

Each for 2 Weeks as part of Semester 2.


SCULpTURE:
The Brief:

{Experimental}

Investigate youre relationship with youre 5 senses or Vital Signs.

We mind mapped in studio & took it from there



I choose the road of 'Touch' & looked at  'To Dissolve'.. heres how its going so far..

WEEK 1:

I sliced an orange & hung up a piece to let it be for a few days & to document the process of 'rotting' or 'dissolving' - How something can change its form/shape/texture over time .. through dissolving etc

Day 1


Day 2


Day 3


Day 4


I dissolved a Berocca into a cup and recorded the process - all in aid of helping me & opening my mind


A few sketches in my pad:


Looking at the bubbles formed when something is dissolved


Using expanding foam (note to self.. it gets REALLY sticky)

Once dried I started experimenting with it



Dissolving:


Bubbles:


Creating cast like shapes for slices:


Creating an explosion from the dissolving of a tablet like form:


The process of dissolving a tablet:


TO DISSOLVE:


Sketch on my studio wall - changing form/shape from dissolving etc


Looking at the different sizes of shape formed from bubbles;


Dissolving on the tongue:



Trying to dissolve an orange slice with Coke
 (NOTHING HAPPENED BUT IT PHOTOGRAPHED WELL)
I enjoy looking at the bubbles




Dissolving the dried expanding foam with Coke
(nothing happened again but it photographed good)



Getting right into it ......  Heres my tongue! Not the nicest photo I know but I absolutely love the texture on the tongue



 Thats me 'Dissolving' on my tongue

All again just mere experiments


Seeing this on the ground got me thinking about creating the shape of my tongue... so I looked around at getting Alginate but 3 Pharmacies & 2 Dentists later there was none to be found. The Materials Store in College only has Alginate which is used for the body & not inside the mouth.. its not safe.


So I chewed a 2 Packs of Hubba Bubba & heres what I got.. I nearly puked towards the end.! haha!

I would like to be able to get those textures from the tongue (kind of like fingerprints in a way) & document them onto some sort of material. Im sure Ill figure something & I know these are all just experiments for now.


My Big Tongue with Dissolving taking place on it!



Gotta go research Artists & magazines now. More work to come up in a few days, I might try create a HUGE tongue, a piece resembling 'dissolving' or even a video piece.

Until Next Time.... Chow :)

So I looked at 'dissolving bodies'... like the cavemen/icemen who have been found & their bodies still there after thousands of years.. they seem to be flat & carcuss like .. so i got thinking about how the body dissolves over time & how I could show that through my experimentations

I created this mummy dissolving expanding figure using expanding foam & its enclosed in a white painting suit..


Once it dried I took it outside to nature to photograph it from different angles

HERES WHAT I SHOT:












Work ready to be assessed:

{My sketchpad & research pad}


{AT MY STUDIO SPACE}







{In the corridor outside the studio,
dissolving feet lead up to the photographs}



Dissolving head:
 Dissolving outwards:

So I went from looking at bubbles & foam formed from dissolvents, then onto the tongue & then onto dissolving bodies. I had no clue what the journey ahead would be at the start of this 2 week project. I am very happy with the process & materials used. I enjoy learning & my mind has opened, I am thinking alot more since I started the project. I would like to study Sculpture. I do realise that theres alot of work & research with this elective but I'm willing to give it a go :)

Next week ... PRINT


P R I N T:

The brief was to show our personal space/enviornment through Dryprint & Monoprints. To explore, how we engage etc

I thought about the space in my room & the space inside my head! then I looked at the space around my head... that 'space' bieng my hair... my dreadlocks! heres what happened:

Some Sketchbook work >




Original scanned image I worked from:


I put my head in a scanner and got these images:













I looked at the tones, textures & detail of my hair & what they would look like as prints

Photoshoped versions of the scans using the 'photocopy filter' >


                             How the heck was I going to create prints from these... I started etching on
                                                       acitate & got some dreadlock like images



(Print below looks more like tree roots)


 I used an old scarf & rolled it onto paper to get the effect of hairs etc



1st try


2nd try....  I was happy with these prints. To touch them you could almost feel hair



Middle part of my wall here... I tried to make an etching of 3 images combined to create a long image of dreadlocks (it didnt work out properly but there was no harm in trying) To the left is the work of Alice Maher,
 titled 'Coma Berenices'
.. I'll get to her work next


My space







An artist I looked at who's work helped me is Alice Maher

Alice Maher was educated at the University of Limerick and Crawford College of Art Cork. She was awarded a Masters degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster and shortly after a Fulbright Scholarship to San Francisco Art Institute. Her work involves many different media including painting, drawing, sculpture, print, photography and installation.

Her detailed charcoal works titled

 'Coma Berenices'
'Andromeda'
'Ombres'

(the knots of hair are so realistic & the long hair of  'Ombres' was the inspiration for the 3 piece long etching on my wall of my hair)






'Ombres' reminds me of 'IT' from the Adams Family.. haha!



Cover of my research notebook


Mini project as part of the Print Elective 'CLUTTER' - Take 2 - 4 photographs & choose 1 and create it using monoprint or dryprint. Here was my chosen image:

PEGS!




 I am not that sure if I enjoyed Print & I know I didnt put in as much effort as everyone else but I gave it a go, I highly doubt I will get offered a place in Print, it was a great learning experience for me & I appreciate having to get to do this elective.

Next week Visual Communications/Graphics Design :) Im looking forward to it