#assemble project

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assemble project: barrier photography

tuesday:

I used the photography studio to photograph my barrier piece as I knew it would cast interesting shadows.

Playing around with different lighting setups and colours to take lots of pictures. Finally selecting these few:

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Week 5 LSAD 14 - 18 /10/2024. Brief 2 "Assemble"

Workshop 4 - Filoconstructions (Textiles and Form Studio)

I love flowers, seriously! Following the theme of "garden party" I decided to sew a summer hat decorated with embroidered flowers and decorate it with fabric flowers.

This is a collection of my flower photos <3

In this workshop I embroidered flowers that will be sewn to the hat. I created floral decorations. I also prepared a form for cutting out the fabric for the hat. I will come back to this workshop :)

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Monday, 14.10.24

Camera and Lighting Workshop

This workshop was really enjoyable and interesting. Being able to explore lighting as well as different visual effects done through physical means instead of digital was very enlightening.

Some of the materials were difficult to use in order to create impressive effects, so it took a lot of shots to get a desired result, but it was definitely worth it each time.

It was very interesting to see how much lighting can affect the mood of an image, and I can't wait to explore it more within my project.

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Using my photographic research on tribal masks on Friday i decided to try make my own using clay.

This process was quite hard for me as i am not that experienced with clay and i do have long nails but that wasn’t really an issue once i got the hang of everything.

My plan for this mask is to underglaze it with blues, reds, yellows and greens as they are the main colours which are used in African culture.

I plan on scraping in designs using the known method of sgraffito which is the method that is originally used for these masks i will be posting the development of this mask when the time comes.

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Reaching for music

(Photography) done in Camera Work and Lighting for Art and Design workshop

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Glen Martin Taylor - Artist Research

Glen is a ceramic artist based in Ohio (Instagram @ glenmartintaylor), He incorporates destruction into his creation process with the Japanese art form of kintsugi. But instead of using golden veins to hold together and repair the objects, he turns to various objects (wire, rusting metals, blacked soldering alloy, etc.). It embraces imperfection, the often ugly, the messy, and the passage of time it takes to heal, and it portrays this in his works. 

‘It feels like I’m opening my wounds to find the healing and all the meaning in the suffering.’ -Glen Martin Taylor

I admire the multiple ways he can find to mend an object, embracing it’s story and showing everything it has been through. There is a balance of beauty and horror in his pieces, it feels honest. It gives a resemblance to life, how it truly is instead of how we want it to be or how we dread it to be. 

Life is painful but there are moments of love and kindness, it all is combined holding onto each other with whatever there is and sometimes those binds aren’t pretty.

I especially felt myself drawn to the piece named 'Ocean's Edge', using seashells as the main component to fix the gap in the vase. Sea shells are often a symbol of fertility in other words life and with life and time we shall fix and heal. His approach and version of Kintsugi align quite much with my own project.

find more works of him on his site

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Updated my board with Primary research pictures that I took for the miniature rooms!

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25/10/24

Made this drawing today with Indian ink and white posca marker on brown paper. I went into this with no clear plan for what I was doing, I very much just went with what I was feeling and drew what came to mind. I tried to be quite loose and natural with the forms and I splattered some ink around the page to add another messy feature.

I like this a lot but I think some thicker brushstrokes would have brought a bit more dimension to the piece. I might cut this up and use it in a collage in future if I need to.

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Assemble

These are images I’ve gathered that show factors of a night out where people assemble…

Before

During

After

These are the interesting things people don’t see during gatherings.

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Photos of different old phones from different decades to be used as reference images for my work in the Clay workshop this week.

I had previously ripped these phones apart and down to their base components all of which I saved. I have loose buttons or keys, phone cases and casings, pieces of plastic housing, internal electrical components like batteries and circuit boards, and finally different phones and screens.

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assemble: monday workshop: photography

For this workshop we were tasked with taking 3 types of photos; a passport-like photo, a photo at an angle playing with light and finally a more experimental photograph.

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Week 4 LSAD 07 - 11 /10/2024. Brief 2 "Assemble"

Workshop 2 - Clay plus workshop

On the first day of the workshop we had the opportunity to learn how to work with clay, creating different structures according to our own design.

In the following days we continued working on Assemble projects. My theme is "garden party", so I prepared some decorations that are in the garden. My idea is clay pots with floral elements and a hanging basket for flowers, for which I used string as a pendant.

Decorate this stone using the decoupage method with a colorful tissue.

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08.10.24 - 10.10.2024

I covered the plaster pieces with a layer of dark red acrylic paint. Once that layer was dry, I dry brushed a layer of lighter paint over the details to make them pop.

I also poured latex into the mould, which I made during the plaster workshop. The eye model will be painted at a later time.

The plaster pieces were sealed with a layer of shiny finish, which is yet to fully dry, hence the white spots on the pieces.

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progress of my paintings so far

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A mind map reflection of my thought process throughout the idea of the word “Assemble” and how music came to mind

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Kintsugi

I have come to interpret the given prompt “Assemble” with the concept of fixing things, more specifically with the concept of Kintsugi. A traditional Japanese art of repairing broken things with gold- often ceramics. Golden veins holding the once broken pieces together. It is a lengthy process which can traditionally take months to complete. This is because it is not only simply fixing an object but also a symbol of humility in front of time. Investing the needed time and therefore respect to mend it. A sort of communication between you and the object. The act of Kintsugi is of honouring the broken objects story. It is a sort of rebirth. One where one moves onwards instead of trying to regain what once was even if it has its scars. After there is perfection in imperfection and the incomplete (the philosophy of wabi-sabi) The traditional kintsugi reassembles all the broken pieces like a puzzle and connects them with sabby (a water-flour mixture similar to mud which is made with a lot of time and effort) And golden laquear. [Other Kintsugi methods are the “piece” method and the joint-call kintsugi method]

The process of traditional Kintsugi - The Process of rebirth by Ai Moliya

The broken pieces are first polished (no more danger, no more pain) before being connected with sabby

the sabby leftovers, used to mend the object, then get cleaned up before one adds the gold

Then the gold lacquer gets added and finally, we have the finished Kintsugi piece. The rebirth of a bowl in this case.

I chose Ai Moliya (ai.moliya on Instagram), a kintsugi artist, graphic designer and fine artist based in Germany, as she displayed very nicely the process of Kintsugi in one of her posts as one can see from the images above, ideal to explain the process of Kinstugi (the post is pinned on her Instagram and titled "Prozess zur Wiedergeburt" aka the process for rebirth)