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My painting inspired my the black metal movement.

I created this using the brown paper provided by the school as well as black and white acrylic paint.

I wanted to create a atmospheric piece and felt that I’ve done and I’m very proud of my work.

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Another primary source drawing

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Fellow classmate and good friend of mine asked me would I draw solid snake from metal gear solid and to say I was overjoyed was an understatement. Its relevant in more ways than one outside of our assignments as working on this reignited that sense of determination and joy in my flow. It took time which is honestly where I'm happiest personally. Not the quickest at what I do generally with Art but I've learned to use that as a strength. This piece was created on bristol board using various pencils and fine liners. I love how smooth bristol board is to work on as it offers a slight sheen to finished work but is very durable for layering most mediums.

UPDATE: a second request so I drew up another one!

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Week 4 LSAD 10/10/2024. Brief 2 "Assemble"

Zine publication with Fiona

I feel like I touched on Japan a little in this work. I realized how important energy-saving technologies are and how unique it is to work with a risograph that saves energy and is eco-friendly, knowing that my creative result is part of that process. I also think there’s a small hint of Japanese minimalism in my works.

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Marina abramovic

(artist research)

I found the work of marina abramovic quite interesting to view and to experience.

Her work " The artist is present", is a spectacular performance piece where she sits and stares at whoever is willing to sit and stare at her.

I love the idea of art being able to stare back at us, making us feel a mixture of emotions.

Eye contact, can be so hard to maintain as well while interacting with people, even though it sounds so simple to do. So I love this element of her holding her gaze determinedly, provoke different reactions from the person opposite her.

Her work, "Rhythm 0" is also a disturbingly spectacular piece too.

She let people do whatever they wanted to her body, for many hours, with acts becoming more violent as the hours went by.

She put herself as an object (like how women can feel) and represented, I feel, toxic masculinity and how power and lack of boundaries can become very dangerous.

Overall, in my opinion, she is excellent at creating an uncomfortable feeling within people, something of which I feel resonates with my own project work.

(Some work found in book, "The artist body" by Tracey Warr and Amelia Jones.)

EDIT

My use of the word uncomfortable was not intended to be negative. I was conveying how I feel her work is very deep and is heavily thought provoking.

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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

10/10/2024

Filoconstructions

Below I have pictured my final finished piece of embroidery from the Filoconstructions that I worked on during the week.

This was a really interesting process and something I hadn’t tried before. I really enjoyed working with a new medium and had a fun time playing with the textures I could make by layering and stitching in various different ways.

For this design I decided to create a piece using symbols, I wanted to use natural symbols and therefore have made my piece which displays a scared heart (a religious symbol from Christian faith) in an anatomical fashion, a beetle (which represents the sun god in Egyptian myth and religious practice), the flower (which is a symbol in Thelema) and I added a fern to balance the contrasting complimentary colours used in the piece and to add one final natural element.

I am fascinated by the shift from the worship of natural elements and things we intrinsically connect to as natural beings into the more far removed supernatural plane which religions develop towards particularly when being large organised faiths. I wanted to showcase how we as natural beings project these supernatural ideas using symbols that we can relate to from the natural world. Seeing how removing the gods from the natural world as they move into a more esoteric space effects how we as humans perceive these religious icons and also the world and life around us is fascinating to me and I wanted to explore this complex idea through a simple symbolic design.

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Movement Project - Artist Research, Q Hayashida

Q Hayashida is a Japanese manga creator known for her works such as Dorohedoro and Dai Dark.

In one of her rare interviews, Hayashida reveals that she is a mixed media artist who uses whatever media she ‘feels like in the moment.’

The chaotic, sketchy, raw and colourful look to her art works harmoniously as she depicts her gory and dark but funny stories.

I love her usage of gouache, watercolour, ink and pen, majority of the time mixing these media together in the same piece creating a layered texture reminiscent of grime, reflecting the apocalyptic settings often found in Hayashida’s manga. Matching her colours, line weight and compositions to fit each scene and its tone is highly impressive and a source of inspiration for myself since I first read her work Dorohedoro many months ago.

Her character design is also equally interesting. Dorohedoro’s cast including the protagonist, Kaiman, a man with a lizard head searching for the sorcerer who cursed him, mypersonal favourite being Jonson, a giant realistic cockroach and plenty others, diverse, well-written and designed human characters. I can’t forget the monsters, each with unique personalities highlighted by their designs, brilliantly adding to the horror aspect of her works.

Lastly, my favourite technique Q Hayashida uses to instil discomfort, is her use of repetition and massive spaces, infinite crowds of monsters showing the viewer how powerlessness feels and drawing giant empty settings, such as a department store where the protagonists are stuck in devoid of all life, which perfectly matched the unease the characters she wrote were feeling.

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Experimental Animation

I’ve always been fascinated by animation. I hope to work with it in the future. My excitement was quickly tempered by biting off more than I could chew.

I’ve always loved characters and character design. I thought that animating facial expressions would be a fun way to experiment.

This proved a bit difficult for me. I had trouble keeping in model throughout the key frames. I plan on retrying this animation in the future. Building up the structure a different way.

Changing my plans I decided to use paper craft in my animation. This way I could stay model easier and not accidentally shrink the focus.

Cutting out hands I used the stop motion app to create movement.

In the future I would like to try using more layers. To recreate the ghost effect in my cyanotype print.

the only thing I wish I had done, is to do this class sooner. I have many ideas for how I could incorporate animation into my project now.

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Attended the Laser Cutting workshop today, and had a lot of fun!! As much as I enjoy working with my hands, I have to admit I feel very at ease working behind a computer screen. We made a little template snail in Adobe Illustrator, and then cut it out with the laser cutter.

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Finished Ceramic Cat House

After the final firing my cat house was finished, and I’m so pleased with the results.

I added my two cats to the ceramic piece, and a trail mapping out their movements.

The wire cat and trail, represents loona, my kitten.

And the wool represents ponyo, who’s 10 years old.

I wanted this piece to convey the abundance of energy the kitten has compared to my older cat.

Loona jumps over, around and under the structure, whilst Ponyo just strolls over to hollowed out section to sleep.

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14/11/2024 - Assemble Project

Since my progress review, my project has navigated in a different direction completely. My assemble project, as my tutors advised me, could be about costumes, Halloween, props, masks and festivities. I have taken on these themes in my project already, unbeknownst to myself, with my own Halloween costume being a main giveaway to this subliminal theme. I feel as though I will be able to have more primary sources and possibly more ideas by altering my main concept to this.

I have figured out that, in a way, anatomy still ties into this change of theme, as the body is still a huge part of the making of costumes and garments. The fit and overall finished look of a garment depends on the wearers anatomy and their body.

I really take inspiration from Tim Burton's style of character and costume design. It is whimsical, quirky, weird and absolutely beautiful in my opinion. I love his style. The body and the faces of characters are distorted in this style, with extreme contrasts from what would be considered normal.

Taking Pastor Galswells from The Corpse Bride as an example, he has a comically large hat, very incredibly pronounced chin and nose and a very exaggerated hunchback. He is ridiculously tall and stick thin, a body that is completely out of the norm for people to see.

The costume design is simple, a long scarf-like shawl, a tall cane, tall hat and floor-length robe.

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

Zine publication with Fiona

It was fantastic workshop, I really enjoyed the process and the publication station. And now I know more about Risograph printing.

Risograph is a machine (looks like a photocopier, but!) that prints fast and in layers, with each color printed separately.

Riso printing inks give an unique texture, resulting in a hand-printed and tactile finish. The inks are soy-based and non-toxic, which means they can take longer to dry.

Risograph printing is also eco-friendly and sustainable. It uses these inks, which are better for the environment. The machine uses less energy since it doesn’t need heat to print, unlike regular printers. It’s great for printing in bulk with little waste, making it a sustainable choice for artists.

For my project I wanted to make a simple graphic story.

*Into the Dill Spirit* is a narrative that explores the life cycle of a plant, focusing on how it is born, takes shape, grows, and gathers energy. This story gives my private viewpoint on the natural process of growth and energy assembly. The use of dill as the central figure represents a common, everyday plant, making the complex process of energy transformation feel more accessible. Here I also convey the idea that dill’s inflorescences resemble a form of assembly.

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Artist Research

Osamu Watanabe

“The magic of sweets”

Osamu Watanabe is a prominent artist who has transformed the art of sweet decoration into a captivating art form.

In 2000, Watanabe ventured into a new artistic field that he developed known as ‘Fake cream art’. This distinctive style uses artificial food materials to craft decorative and edible-looking treats inspired by various themes.

Source: Whitestone gallery (2024) osamu watanabe Available at: https://www.whitehouse-gallery.come/blogs/artist/osamuwatanabe Accessed: 4/12/2024

Watanabe’s incredible creations really inspired me when i began my search for artists to relate to my assemble project.

I had been focusing a lot on a single theme in my artwork (cake). I realised when looking at Watanabe’s work that it was important to experiment more not only with colours but different desserts not only cakes but ice cream, cupcakes, fruits all sorts of different delicacies.

This helped me when coming to the end of my assemble project as I branched out more, researching how different desserts were assembled, making note of it and interpreting it in my own style.

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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.