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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 - Print Making Workshop

Today I did a bunch of monoprints. I tried to keep them simple and not think too much about the drawings. The first few have an almost charcoal look to them which gives them a nice organic look.

These pieces were slight failures.

I forgot to remove the first layer of blue ink on the first piece, causijg the lines to come out blurred.

For the second piece, I wanted to imitate how cuts or scars look, but when I layered the blue and red ink, the blue ended up dominating instead of mixing.

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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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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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Update

I completed folding the zines I had to leave to dry. I’m extremely happy with how these turned out and I think zine was an extremely beneficial workshop to have taken part in and I throughly enjoyed it and will definitely use this again.

It was interesting to see how different colours can change the mood of the zine completely with yellow feeling electric and fun and blue feeling more calm but communicative.

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Reaching for music

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

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Yoko Ono - Mend Piece - Artist Research

I was suggested by tutors to look at the exhibition “Mend Piece” by Yoko Ono that took place in London from 25 August 2021 to 2 January 2022. 

For the exhibition, visitors were asked to sit at a table with broken ceramic pieces and other items (scissors, glue, twine and tape) and asked to respond to the instructions of Yoko Ono. 

Mend carefully. Think of mending the world at the same time. - Yoko Ono

This wasn’t her first time doing such an exhibition as she had done a similar one in 1966 (Meding Pieces I and titled Yoko at Indica: Unfinished Paintings and Objects). All works of the exhibition were created through the result of visitors actions. 

Yoko Ono is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist. Especially with this piece one notices her attempt to call out for a move of piece and fixing that what is broken. Having also taken the Japanese concept of Kintsugi as an inspiration for the exhibition. 

As it takes a different approach to the concept of Kintsugi and also involves others in fixing and mending things, this one especially caught my interest and responds well to my own idea to try out different ways how to fix the pieces in various ways.

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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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Erwin Wurm

Erwin wurm is an Austrian artist who works solely in Vienne and Limberg in Austria and occasionally in New York. Erwin has multiple different collections, but the two that have the most connection to my theme is his fat car series and his one minute sculpture series.

One minutes sculpture

The idiot I - pencil and felt-tip,2003

4 bananas - ballpoint+paper,1999

Erwin's one minute sculpture's was a series that was created in 1996 and continued on until 2007, this series being people or himself posing with an everyday object, often within an art space. When Erwin was coming up with these images and sculptures he would make them spontaneously, with no thought going into them. The images are usually very pornographic, violent or off-putting and are very beyond the paradigm of the actual uses of the objects.

"I am interested in the everyday life. All the materials that surrounded me could be useful and the objects, topics involved in contemporary society."

This is a quote from erwin and how he had decided to make this series, and how he wanted to make it stand out and be completely different to anything he's ever seen, still ongoing with the series but only photography more so than his sketches.

The second picture here is known as 'The Idiot II' based on his sketch from 2003. The first picture to the left is based on his sketches from the one minute sculptures.

Fat cars

Fat car - 2001

Curry bus - 2015

This is wurms series known as a fat car, and from the name you can tell, he was making it out for the cars to have a fat effect on them. Wurm thinks the creation of sculpture is adding and detracting materials to an object. He achieves this by layering clothes over each other to create fat or inflated objects.

The first sculpture of the fat car didn't turn out to be what wurm wanted. It didn't achieve the shape or size that he had wanted. He admitted in an interview how he wanted to mix some biological and mechanical systems. The opel designers that tried to create the sculpture for him to begin with never got to achieve the smoothness or anything for him, so he ended up sculpting using only the chassis of a real car. He used polyurethane and styrofoam framed with lacquer to create these sculptures.

Random add-ons

These are two different pieces that were shown in two different exhibitions, both portraying human bodies being morphed together with different objects that are used every day like a box and also a purse.

This artist was one of my favourites to research now that I have my theme set clearly for what I want to do, going along with keeping my real life objects but mixing it together with relations in my life.

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ASSEMBLE- Pump it up workshop Day 1. Today I was really excited to do this workshop as I had already bought balloons and tights to make some sort of sculpture representing sex or an orgy. I wanted to show bodies entwined without being explicit. So basically a series of tubes intertwined.

Im trying to do the same thing but in a garment. To get height on the shoulders I’m using stuffed tights and playing around with the shape. I haven’t fully decided what the full garment will look like.

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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 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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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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Lino print i am working on based off mainly the patterns in the official Ghanaian and African attire.

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Workshop

Day 2 of the zine workshop.

Today i blocked out The areas I wanted to be orange by using tracing paper and a dark and a light market. Fiona explained to us the colour theory’s of the machine. It only sees in black and white and how a lighter marker will create a less saturated orange (in this instance. But is the same with any colour used in the riso)and a darker marker would create a more saturated orange. So I decided to play with using a pink and light grey marker and a black marker on the tracing paper.

When I was choosing the colours I wanted to print onto I chose yellow to try accentuate the happiness of a night out which I feel made it very vibrate.

I also chose blue on the spur of the moment and was unsure if I would like it but when it was printed it worked really well with portraying a night out and I was surprised that I really ended up liking the blue with the print.

I have to wait for some prints to dry and then I will fold them like I did with the first print.