#tunsian

[sherinebensalem]

FAS3000 - Final evaluation

I was tasked with a brief titled ‘The story of you’ where I needed to create a sketchbook and write a blog about my creations throughout this module. I started by mind mapping my ideas and the different themes that I could use for this brief and ended up with the theme of key Tunisian landscapes that are important to me. I am half Tunsian and I grew up in Tunisia for 10 years, so it is a place very dear to my heart, for the people who live there and for the beautiful landscapes there. I thought this theme would be good for this brief as it is something I’m really passionate about and I’ve always spoken about how beautiful Tunisia is, so it was an opportunity for me to show this.

My research was made up mainly of pictures I had taken, primary research, when I’ve been back to Tunisia to visit family and friends. These pictures were of places that I loved to visit like the beach or the colosseum. I have many fond memories of these places so it felt right for me to use these in this project. I’ve always loved to swim since I was young and my first time swimming was in Tunisia so the sea is really special to me, and whenever I’d meet up with friends we’d go for a swim and sunbathe in the summer. When it was winter we’d walk around or in the colosseum to just feel the history surrounding it.

For my secondary research I looked into many different photographers, collage artists, textile artists and painters, to help inspire me along the way while creating samples. These artists have been used as inspiration to help either my narrative, my use of colour, my collages or the techniques used while creating samples. Artists like Hugo Barros were really helpful while I was collaging in my sketchbook but other artists like Agnés Decourchelle were helpful with my overall narrative and how to express it visually. 

With these artists helping inspire me, I was able to interpret my primary images in different ways. I was able to collage them, embroider them, print or even weave them. I had many different options for creation and interpretation, I was able to make the meaning behind different pieces literal but other pieces I was still able to make more abstract and thought out, and some pieces were still connected to my narrative but could be up for interpretation.

My primary research was incredibly important in relation to making samples in the workshops. I always had to have an image ready before a workshop so I knew what I was going in with. I would almost always have to have at least one image printed off for inspiration so I knew what I needed to create, but also what I had already created so that my work would not become repetitive. 

Since my two main landscapes were the sea and the colosseum I didn't want to make too much of one and less of the other, so I often had to look back at previous work I had created to make sure the landscapes were balanced out in numbers. I also wanted to make sure that I wasn’t doing too much of one technique and less of the other, for example I really enjoyed weaving so I often gravitated to making samples through weave but I also had to remind myself that I needed variety in techniques while creating these samples.

I am happy to say I have experienced successes throughout this module with samples, mostly, turning out the way I had hoped, but I also had times where they did not so I had to try and be innovative and to use these samples in different ways. In the indigo dye workshop for example, a couple of the samples did not turn out how I had hoped so I decided to cut them up and use them for my wear sample in my final outcome. 

I had to keep being innovative throughout to try and make new things out of bad samples. I found it especially difficult to do this, as sometimes I was just disheartened by a bad sample, but I learnt not to take it too seriously and that I could always fix it to make it even better than the original design in mind. This is why I believe my experimentation throughout this brief was successful, although not all my samples turned out the way I wanted them to, they all were able to be changed to still fit my narrative.

I started off the module quite unsure of how well my narrative would be portrayed visually and whether it would really be understood or not, whether the viewer could really feel what I feel for the place I used to call home. But at some point along the way I realised that as long as it felt right to me then others would be able to feel the same. If I felt I had shown Tunisia correctly then other people would be able to understand the narrative and have the same feelings while going through my sketchbook and viewing my final outcome. 

I think this mindset really helped me to progress through the module and allowed me to be much freer while creating samples, which also helped to make my samples better overall. Tunisian people have a very carefree attitude, so as soon as I was able to adopt that attitude towards my samples, then it started to feel like my narrative was really being portrayed.

My final outcome was an A1 board filled with samples that visually communicated my narrative on important Tunisian landscapes through different techniques such as aqua film, embroidery and weave. Some of these samples I had already created and then used the improvements I had mentioned previously to better them, and then some samples were completely new and made with the intention of being presented on my board. The indigo dye sample I had created was a sample I had already made before starting my final outcome, however I improved it for my final outcome by adding pintucks to it to further elevate it physically and visually. The plain weave of the sky and colosseum is an example of a piece I created with the idea of having it presented on my board. I knew I wanted a weave piece for the board and so I made one. 

I believe my final outcome was successful because I was able to communicate my narrative and have all of the different parts of my narrative connect through the whole board. I could of course, still improve the board further by adding more printed samples, or adding some embroidery to the crocheted piece, but overall, I am pleased with the final outcome and thought the pieces were great examples of important Tunisian landscapes and the placement of the pieces on the board were balanced well.

[miramane-music]

الجبليين - مساكن 💙💙 #msaken #sousse #sahel #grandmaghreb #northafrica #mediterranean #tunsian #arabic #islamic #identity #architecture #heritage #patrimoine #ruins #oldcity #medina #old #monuments #door #decoration #blue #stone #simple #sunny #ancient #nofilter

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SUBLIME CINEMA #610 - HARKA

So rare is it for me to see a Tunisian film that when this new Cannes submission became available for me to view, I jumped at the opportunity. This is a quietly observant film from a director I had never heard of, Lotfy Nathan. 

For many years the African filmmaking infrastructure was based around Nigeria (Africa’s Bollywood), for internal, low budget consumption, save a few cult films and a handful of renowned directors. Now I notice a new young crop of talented filmmakers making waves which reach past the continent. 

[crochetingvideogames]

10/21 on the PQ blanket is Yu! He was a blessed relief after Aigis seeing as he only has about 5 colors with a max of 4 being used at the same time. Pattern by @tonystarkulous

[azraqnar]

Yummy Arabic food

[sitahx3]

It's because we bombed our own airports 😌 sorry you can't be us 😘😘

[akuasucc]

french twitter complaining that a american said that blackfishing tunsian girl is white and they in the quotes saying “shes not white shes NORTH AFRICAN” ok we know shes from north africa and she’s obviously not black so if ur not black then ur white.. when will yall learn the difference between race ethnicity and nationality

[meowmeow-hours]

Trying my hand at tunsian crochet. I regret having gotten bamboo hooks as the sensation of yarn snagging and scratching causes me to physically cringe, but other than that I'm really loving the craft. It also ended up being egg-colored... that was not intentional.

[ericacrochets]

Tunsian Sampler Blanket CAL by KnitterKnotter

Free Crochet Pattern Here

[disabledwarrior]

Tunsian crochet is still weird to me but I do love how it looks smh

[crochetingvideogames]

12/21 on the Persona Q Blanket is Koromaru! I bruised my finger a bit on this one. Pattern by @tonystarkulous

[herorps]

hi can you please suggest actresses of colour that could play 21 - 32 that could pass as a gorgeous, fashionista, former dancer that's very outgoing? preferably a mixture of skinny, average sized and plus sized actresses, please. thanks!

sure! 

sofia carson (colombian) 

moon gayoung (south korean)

ni ni (chinese) 

medalion rahimi (iranian/russian) 

adeline rudolph (south korean/german) 

iman meskini (tunsian/norwegian) 

simay barlas (turkish)

dilraba dilmurat (uyghur chinese)

alia bhatt (indian/german)

jessica sula (black/chinese/white) 

raven goodwin (black)

kang seulgi (south korean) -- a singer

precious lee (black) -- a model 

[frodosfancies]

New produ ts using this gorgeous new stitch coming soon! This is the Tunsian crochet pyramid stitch! https://www.instagram.com/p/CiS2X1rOumG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sit-tnc-fall-2018-blog]

Word of the Week 1: tool tool

tool, or tool tool, means “straight ahead” in English. It’s often used to give directions. In Tunsi, words are commonly said twice. It’s the word of the week because it’s fun to say.

Joke 1: My host mom told me a Tunisian joke about students in an English class.

The professor is teaching conjugation. She calls on one kid and says, “conjugate: to write.” The kid says, “write, wrote, written.” She points at another student and says, “to speak.” The student says, “speak, spoke, spoken.” Then, she calls on a kid with his head down who is not paying attention and says, “sbeek!” (what’s up with you!) He jerks up and says, “shbeek, shbeeked, shbeeken.”

Word of the Week 2: Dar

Dar means house in Tunsi.

Joke 2:

I made this joke up because I love all the cats in Tunisia. It is a dumb joke. 

What does the cat say in FusHa? “Maaow.” What does the cat say in Tunsi? “Meh ow.”

The joke is Tunsians change “ah” sounds to “eh” sounds. Instead of Sebah Al Khair, they say Sbeh al Kheer.

Cait Kelley

[akuasucc]

bra how french twitter insulting americans for saying that tunsian girl is white when they in the wrong like they really think maghreb is a race when its a ethnicity 🤥🤥

[miramane-music]

💙 السكبونة - مساكن 💙 #msaken #sousse #sahel #tunisia #northafrica #mediterranean #tunsian #arabic #islamic #identity #icon #architecture #decoration #patrimoine #heritage #monuments #door #simple #beautiful #art #olf #oldcity #medina #ancestors #love #blue #archaic #ruins #lovemyhometown #nofilter (à Msaken)