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HOMELESS PRINTS

PRINT ELECTIVE..

Im really enjoyin the print elective so far.. Our brief was on the space around us and the idea I came up with to do was how we create our own space by ignoring things that make us feel unconfortable eg homeless on the street ect.. Iv just started printing today and have cum up with a few more ideas to do with the prints.. I will post pictures soon..

SCULPTURE ELECTIVE..

I am just after finishing our two weeks of the sculpture elective. We were given a brief saying that we were to explore the vital signs and the 5 senses. However on the first monday of the elective we did big mindmaps on the floor and everyone in the  contributed words to these mindmaps. At the end of the class we were told to pick words from these mindmaps and work from that word. I chose the word 'to fold' from touch. We then were told to play around with materials and to start making things and Mike Canning emphasised that this was a labratory and not a studio and we should start making sculptural experiments.Above are some of the basic folds I did.

I used pieces of cardboard to make up triangular shapes that i saw in the folds and stuck them toghether in a way that i thought looked good. When i was cutting the shapes I didnt realise that there was green on the back of the cardboard. However, I liked the effect the green had when I pieced it all toghether.

I liked the shape of this fold that i did and Mike wanted me to work on a much larger scale, so I decided to do a bigger version of this.. I got 9 pieces of A2 cardpaper and stuck them toghether to make one big piece to fold and make something out of..

Making the big piece out of the nine sheets didnt work because it was too hard to fold. so I ended up having to cut them back into individual sheets to fold them. I decided instead I would make a large piece that would go up the wall infront of my desk. I glued bit toghether and manipulated the paper to work in a way that I thought looked good. It didnt turn out as I hoped but I was happy with the end result..

I made these V shaped folds in the first week and I was just experimenting with the different types of foflds I could make.. I had an urge to pour paint down inbetween the cracks and see what would happen. I used blue and red paint which made purple when they met in the middle. It was just little experiment..

I bought a few sheets of acitate and cut them into triangle shapes and cellotaped thaem toghether in the patterns of folds. This was my favourite thing that I made during this elective and unfortunately I didnt discover it until the last day of the elective. What I liked about this was that the triangles could move freeely in different ways to make different forms and shapes..

STOP MOTION CUBES..

CUBES..

I came up with the idea of making paper cubes and on each side of the cubes I could put a different part of the face. The ide was that it would almost be like a rubics cube or puzzle. I drew five portraits altoghether of me, friends and family and made 9 paper cubes. I cut the portraits up and put them on the the sides of the squares .. I was happy with how it turned out and it was pretty fun to rearrange the cubes in different ways..

NEW STOPMOTION MOVIE (jelly cubes)

  

MORE GROWTH AND EXPANSION OF BULIDINGS..

I have been working lately with expansion and groth in cities and how they contantly are changing. Recently I have made a 3d piece made of the same wood sticks that I have used before.. I am working with the idea that more and more houses and buildings are are being built and that these living spaces are essentially just a box or square shape and that we all basically just live in cubes.. I stacked these square shaped boxes on top of each other in a pattern and basically just ballenced them in a certain way that i liked and thought looked interesting..

I cahnged a few of the squares around for the second bit of the pice and put some of the smaller boxes in larger ones just seeing what I could do with it.. I thought this would be an easy piece to create as it is quite simple but it was actually quite hard and it took a while to get them to ballance correctly..  it kind of reminded me of playing jenga :)

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!! Theo jansen