#assemble project

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Assemble Workshop - Zine Publication

Today I started the zine workshop, we got a tour of the publication station and learned about the sustainability behind the risograph.

We then were tasked woth actually making our zine so that it can go through the risograph tomorrow.

It was really great to mix in some collage with drawings or varying simplicity. The layering also allowed me to add some depth to my work.

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finished piece.

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Workshop: Cyanotype

For this week I choose to do the cyanotype workshop which I enjoyed quite a lot. The process of preparing the sheets and printing were quite interesting.

Some images of Gemma showing us the process.

For my print I decided to focus on institutionality and the family structure within it and on how much importance it holds in its honorifics and how sometimes despite actively calling my cousins and close family friends Akak and Abang I sometimes forget that I am also regarded in the same way to younger family members.

I was quite alright with this until I cut the edges off it honestly. But I think it worked out quite well in the end when I added the lino print cutout of my flower. Although I do wish I did the Lino in red. I might do another sheet just to try that.

Small video on one of the processes.

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Today I brought home my plaster cast and did my own makeup routine on the piece to replicate my going out look / routine

It was surreal to see this when it was complete and I was extremely happy with how it turned out. I put it on the wall next to the bare faced one and my wax one which showed the contrast between a bare face and one with makeup which represented exactly what I wanted it to.

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ASSEMBLE zine

I started my journey into zine-making by planning my zine pages out. The inspiration for the piece was based off of old furniture catalogues and instruction manuals for furniture building. As to keep with the theme of the piece i decided then to create the piece in isometric perspective, while keeping the front and back pages to a more eyecatching graphic style. I also was basing the furniture off of my own personal taste and as so named the zine ‘Adakea’ as a portmanteau of my own name and the furniture brand. Also based on my self all of the writing in the piece is based on my own sense of humour and quips about my own taste and habits.

I started by designing my zine in a light yellow as to not be picked up by the Riso machine, and then going over it in a darker pencil colour. To create the orange accents on the final piece i used a paint marker to create graphic blocks of colour that would pop in the final piece. If i were to go back and do this project again i would use a darker colour as i am not fully satisfied with the opacity of the orange accents on the final booklets.

When put into the RISO machine The piece gave me a few test prints before the machine had fully reached the opacity it would start its finished prints at.

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02/12/24

This Monday I have continued on the textile workshop from the last week, as I did not finish my works.

I embroidered the rest of this pattern that I based on the sewing machine. It took me a bit too long, and the process would be faster if I would use the sewing machine for the stitches, but I like how it looks embroidered. Later I plan to add some more watercolours to enhance the contrast.

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Workshop Week 8, 11-11-24

Christ its week 8 already

This week I did the print making workshop. On Monday, the day I write this, we did mono printing, with acetate sheets covered in oil based ink. First we covered the sheets with paper, and traced out our print on top before removing the paper. Then we did the reverse: removing ink off the sheet, then running that and a piece of cartridge through the press. We also explored colour and texture with wall paper

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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 3 - 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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The display

all pieces in one spot and right across from it all my other items (the 3D ones) displayed nicely.

A summary of my assemble journey.

Starting with making mindmaps and a zine to help me narrow myself down to finding kintsugi and its meaning. Creating things, breaking things as well as remaking and remaking and remaking certain things. And in a certain way creating something new out of something else is also a form of fixing/repairing/healing so in other words kintsugi.

This project both pulled me out of my comfort zone, challenged me and allowed me to try out new things. I think personally the toughest part must have been the fact that there was no final goal, there was not one project we decided to do and then try to finish and rather we had to explore and explore what the word "assemble" meant to us. With it also being such a broad term it was easily a quite tough one to work with. I am glad to see it coming to an end and to see all the fruits of my efforts.

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Assemble - A Retrospect

During the course of the past 10 weeks, the Assemble Project has allowed me to experiment with materials I usually wouldn't have the chance to use.

The different workshops forced me to think differently, and step out of my comfort zone.

However, as much of a learning experience this was, I am very glad that it's over. I think it's quite strenuous to work on a project without an end goal, but I did manage to get some finished pieces out.

Im pleased with my project, I think it looks quite uniform, a limited pallete greatly helping to achieve this. I do think that my original idea did get lost a bit, but I am content nonetheless.

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Learned to bind a mini book and all need to do is 150 copies of these :D

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Assemble: Display

My display for the Assemble Project.

Close ups and different and set ups below;

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I tried to set up in different parts of the room but ended up hating it as it was too dark and the space was just too big.

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Today I also brought home a sheet of paper which I set up on my wall and used charcoal to create this piece. I was annoyed that there was a part of my wall that made some parts much darker when I shaded over it which obstructed my piece but I think with my shading it indicates the way the piece truly is. I was thinking of using hands to be pulling the face apart but as I finished the hands I thought it would be interesting to actually have No face.

My thought process is that it would be the hands that express the feelings of the piece. And leave the area where the face would be blank. I think I achieved this perfectly. I added some distressed shading to frame the emptiness of where the face would be.

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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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28/11/24

On Thursday I visited other Discipline departments, Fine Art this time. I was really happy to visit the second and third-year Painting studious and I found it really inspiring, as I can't wait to go to painting discipline myself. I took a few photos of students' studio spaces I liked the most.

After that, at home, I continued to work on my project. I covered the pattern with hands on it with deeper blue.

I am a bit unsure whether I should add embroidery to it as well, or just paint the hands with acrylics, as with the sewing machine pattern it took me a while to complete only a small part of the embroidery.

As an experiment, I made a time-lapse of me doing the embroidery, and it turned out really funny, so I decided to share it here as well.