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Sweet & Spicy Wintertime - Master List

These will be updated for each and every one entered in the event. Stay tuned wanted to share my writing list and the characters I will be adding for it. This is for the sweet & spicy wintertime fan fic 18+ NSFW. So please stay tuned and I hope you enjoy through the month of December what I write.

Touching Under The Blankets (Impey Baribicane - CR)

Canceling plans to snuggle and fuck (Dazai & Chuuya - BSD)

Cold skin, warm hands - (Chuuya - BSD)

The recipe says "Add a pinch of love" (Ichiya - VB)

Hot cocoa tastes better when shared (Ikki - Amnesia)

Gift wrapping distractions (Dante Falzone - Piofiore)

In front of the fireplace (Shin - Amnesia)

Long winter nights spent awake (Akutagawa -BSD)

Quickies at the holiday party (Nicola Francesca & Leo Cavagnis- Piofiore)

Naughty Christmas wish (Herlock Sholmes - CR)

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Basquiat: Boom For Real exhibition at Baribican Art Gallery, Curated by Dieter Buchhart and Eleanor Narine 💥 "he ate up every image, every word, every bit of data that appeared in front of him and he processed it all into a bebop cubist pop art cartoon gospel that synthesised the whole overload we lived under into something that made an astonishing new sense." - Glenn O'Brien following Basquiat's death in 1988

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EVALUATION OF ARTIST RESEARCH

Installation:

I started my research by looking at artists that came to my attention from class presentations as well as suggestions made by tutors. In terms of my installation, I started looking at Andy Warhol’s ‘Time Capsules’ and Song Dong’s ‘Waste Not’; both collections presented at exhibition in their own right but of course very different in their arrangement. With Warhol’s ‘Time Capsules’ being presented as more of an organised mess, whilst Dong’s being organised into categories of objects and laid out meticulously in the gallery space where the exhibition was held. After completing this initial research, I then went on to independently look for other artists who worked with collections. This led me to Danh Vo’s ‘I M M U R 2′ exhibition which featured the vast collections of late artist, Martin Wong. The curation and presentation of this piece was extensive and took the form of shelving, cabinets and frames on the wall. At this initial stage in my research, I felt that this type of layout was how I wanted to have my objects displayed; although I was keen to continue looking at a variety of artists’ work to consider other types of curation and layout. 

As my research progressed, specifically whilst looking further at Warhol and Vo’s works online, I came across the exhibition ‘Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector’ which is an exhibition that took place at The Baribican Gallery in London in 2015. It featured the collections belonging to a range of infamous artists including Andy Warhol, Danh Vo, Howard Hodgkin, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Martin Parr; amongst others. Luckily, the library had a book which features photographs and text of all of the items featured at this exhibition. This book was extremely helpful insofar as the photographs included displaying a variety of examples of curatorial layouts that could be achieved when grouping each type of collection. For example, some were laid out on the floor, some on shelves, some in small groups of items displayed alongside others of the same category, and some arranged in a cluttered yet organised manner on a table. This got me thinking about my current ideas for how to display my installation and what the most suitable/interesting display would be. I felt that although shelving would work, it might make the piece more interesting if I was to use a more obscure method of presentation. 

In my search for a new type of layout for my piece, I recalled the Cabinet of Curiosities (Wunderkammer) concept that I noted from Huma’s ‘Collecting: Organising as Context’ presentation. I did some further research into this and found that these cabinets were used historically to tell a story about the world and its history through the careful selection of specific objects. This got me thinking about how I could develop my piece further and make it even more personal to me. In the context of how a cabinet of curiosities tells a story about the world, I thought I could use this concept to create my very own cabinet of curiosities that tells a story about me and my history. I thought that this fit my original idea of ‘Identity of the Object’ very well but just allowed me to be much more personal. This led my research on to look at Mark Dion who creates installations using cabinets and collections of objects. Although his work is not a personal venture, I felt it was important to look at his work in depth in terms of curatorial inspiration. He also used a variety of different types of cabinets which got me thinking about the type of cabinet that would fit my story the best. I also looked at Huma’s cabinet of curiosity piece ‘The Miraculous Lives of This and That’ which was helpful to bear in mind when considering the layout of the objects. It also helped me to consider that the type of cabinet I would require was to be of a much less grand nature so that it would feel more personal and intrusive when the viewer interacts with it. 

In terms of research that explored art of a personal/autobiographical nature, I looked at Tracey Emin’s ‘Exploration of the Soul’ and ‘My Photo Album’. Obviously Emin’s work is generally very personal but I felt that these two works were particularly similar to what I was attempting to achieve through my piece. When considering the types of things that I would include in the piece, I was a little worried that if people were not aware of the context, they would not be interested in engaging with it. However, these two works of Emin’s very much approach her life from an inward point but are captivating and have proved to be successful. I therefore decided that as long as an aspect of context was provided to the viewer at the exhibition, the piece would work because it would show the absolute personal nature of my outcome. This will likely need to take form in my artist statement. 

Painting:

I already had a pretty good idea of the outcome that I wanted to achieve from my painting when I started my research which helped me to direct it pretty easily. As I wanted my painting to be of abstract quality, with my face being obscured, I started to look at artists who have done similar work. 

I found Kwang Ho Shin’s work first. He uses oils and charcoal to create abstract portraits which obscure and distort his subjects’ facial features. I loved the vibrancy of Ho Shin’s work and felt that this was something I wanted to achieve within my own painting. I also loved the blending techniques which he uses which led me to consider how I would achieve the same outcome. Kim Byungkwan’s work is another that I looked at whose style is similar to Ho Shin’s in terms of distortion of the facial features of her subjects. She uses acrylic instead of oils however and her paintings are of a much more detailed quality. On balance, I felt that Ho Shin’s style was more suitable to the type of abstract painting that I wanted to create. I also felt that the use of oils produced a much more bold and eye-catching effect. I have never used oils before and so am keen to push myself to try something completely new.

In terms of abstract layering techniques, I looked at Marty Poorter and Adrian Ghenie who use unconventional methods to create texture and depth to their paintings. Poorter uses different types of paints and, what appears to be, paper to create interesting layers in her work; something which I had not considered doing until this point. In this regard, I plan to experiment using different paints together to see what outcome they produce. Ghenie uses knives and pencils to blur and blend his oil paintings to obscure his subjects’ faces and create an abstract effect. I therefore plan to try out using different tools to test out what works best when blending different types of paints.

The final artist I looked at for inspiration for my painting was Marlene Dumas. I came across her work by chance by finding her book in the library which led me to consider a different type of abstract painting for my work. I loved how she keeps a similarity to the subject but distorts their appearance by changing their facial features slightly and losing specific details. This got me thinking about how I could combine two different types of abstract painting in my own work; incorporating both the styles of Dumas and Ho Shin/Ghenie’s. This is something that I will need to consider further as my experimentation progresses. 

Overall, my research has led me through an interesting journey of discovery whereby my idea has evolved and solidified into, what I hope to be, an achievable final piece. I have explored many different avenues within my theme without steering too far away from the specific outcome I hope to achieve. This has ensured that my idea has stayed refined and has not caused me to branch too far out from my original brief; causing no confusion as to the conclusion I need to reach. 

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BARBICAN TIME FRAME

The Barbican time frame is a proposal that allows different way of living with a greater diversity of inhabitant inside the barbican by using the frame furniture that can allow the owner of the units to share their bedroom during the day with someone who wants to have an office space. It is not a proposal that forcing the owners of the room to do they daily routine in the specific period of time but instead their have they own choice to renting out their room or not.

On each day, owner of the room can select whether they want to rent out their room or not and the renter can see which room in the building is available by using the “Barbican Rooms” application.

The renter can also find out which room is available at the time by the electronic billboard at every barbican’s entrances. the billboard will also show the map of the barbican and the location of the room that you are renting. 

To clearly show the life inside the barbican, I illustrated life of Brian, one of the owner of the baribican, in the day that he went out and rented his apartment for the office activities.

7.00 - Brian woke up, he remember that he has a meeting with his friend today.

7.30 - Brian finished his morning routine he kept all of his personal belonging to the barbican box, flipped his bed, and ready to leave.

9.00 - The renter came in. His name is Dan. he will share Brian’s apartment today.

9.00 - 17.00 - Dan’s co-worker finally shown up. “You never come to help me setting the room!” Dan said.

12.00 - 13.00 - It’s now the lunch time. Dan invited Emili, who is also renting one of the units for the office, to come have a lunch together.

17.00 - The renting time is out. Kevin left early again today. Dan had to clear things up alone by himself.

17.00 - 18.00 - Brian came back home with his friend. As everything is flipped up, they used the free space for indoor activities. 

23.00 - 7.00 - Brian is back alone on his bed. “What a day.. But really? what actually went wrong?” Brian thought in his head.

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31st December 2015

2015 has been a great year for Whalebone Films, here is a brief run down of our year:

- We went to Ghana with WaterAid to make a short film about their water projects there

- We visited Jordan and Lesvos with Save the Chidren to cover their refugee work.

- We went to Nepal with Oxfam to make a film about earthquake recovery work.

- Chloe did a month long artist residency at the Macdowell Colony in New Hampshire.

- We finished our first film for the Guardian (going online early next year)

- We made a short film The Long Haul about a lobster fisherwoman which is premiering at the London Short Film Festival next month.

- An All-Encompassing Light continued to get screened at festvals around the world and won the Audience Award at the Imperial War Museum short film festival. It was picked as One to Watch at the London Short Film Festival by the BFI.

- We made films for lots of lovely organisations including Barbican, the National Theatre, Space, BBC3, Channel 4, PACT, Bush Theatre, University of the Arts London, True TUbe, Only Connect, MACAT, Go-Ahead,  Restless Development, and BBC Future.

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I went to the Rain Room at the Barbican on Sunday. I queued for 4 and a half hours to see the installation by Random International.  While preparing for the waiting helped I could have done without it. I’d never get to experience something like that probably ever again though and it was super cool. 

The Rain Room allows you to walk through a space where water falls in droplets like rainfall, however sensors pick up your movement and stop the rain falling as you move through; giving you control of the water movement.

Barbican 

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Milo 

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The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk @ the Barbican, London.

Part 4

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The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk @ the Barbican, London.

Part 2

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The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk @ the Barbican, London.

Part 1