May 2010
22 posts
My Final Piece.
My final piece communicates the song Hidden Place with my fantasy world of dreams. I drew the imagery in the shape of the sound frequency lines I worked around in my first try out of this method. Not having a frequency line made the piece flow better, like a story. I chose this method of having the imagery on a long piece of paper, as I wanted the viewer to see certain...
Before I did my final piece, I did a short test piece, as I hadn’t tried out drawing vertically.
From the mock final pieces that I have made and explored, I have decided that it seems most appropriate to make my final piece in the form of a long train of paper, much like the 6m one I made on brown paper, except I will be making it vertically in order to hang on a wall, onto the floor, and will not use frequency lines - the imagery will be drawn in the movement of the long line. I have decided...
I decided to buy a map of Greenland (instead of Iceland, as the geography of the map suited better) as I had this idea that it was shaped like a fish, and I would draw fantasy imagery filled inside it..and would have the background much more like a real map. So I traced the outline of the country against a window, (I didn’t have access to a lightbox) and filled with imagery as planned....
The other day, I got an OS ordinance map of York from a charity shop. I wasn’t sure how exactly to approach the task I had set myself (to make imagery with a map), so I drew a few images I had made in my automatic drawing books. Soon I found myself finding imagery within the lines of the roads ect, so I started to fill the page with this. I didn’t however finish this, as I felt it...
From Björk (2001)
The beginning page in this book, is exactly what I was trying to explore at the beginning of my project; the part where I am lying in my bed, waiting to fall asleep and find myself within the world of my dreams.
The abnormally sized hands made me recall back a scene in the movie The Science of Sleep (2006)
Scene in The Science of Sleep, inwhich Stephane dreams he is...
John Bevis
Pisces
Gemini
1740s
From You Are Here: Personal Geographies and other Maps of the Imagination
What I like about these pictures, is, apart from the illustrations, the way it looks as though music has been influenced into the work; dotted on a graph.
I (accidently) managed to mirror it instead of spin, which I corrected on my laptop: for some odd reason, Tumblr is displaying this...
Adolf Wölfli, General View of the Island Neveranger, 1911
West Coast of Europe, or the Atlantic Ocean, 1911
Pages from: You Are Here: Personal Geographies and other Maps of the Imagination
Katherine Harmon (2004)
I love the intense detail and flow of these drawings..the repetative circular shapes, minute patterns and faces really appeal to me. There is a sense of chaos, but seems to take...
WatchOver the last two days, I have built, out of paper maché, a sculptural piece. Being the next progression to my project from the 6m drawing I made on brown paper, the idea was to continue this into moving image: I made the scupture out of various characters out of the automatic drawings I made earlier in the project; some of these things/characters were changed a little, in order to complete the...
The Digesting Duck
Jacques de Vaucanson
1739
I started to look at satelite images of the lines that make up the landscape of Iceland, the country where Björk made the Vespertine album, as I am exploring maps and the like, in order to use this as the basis for my final piece.
The Antarctic continent from space. I see a mean fish with a big hooked nose.
After looking at a few sealife books and watching ‘Encounters at the end of the world’, a documentary of scientists working in the antarctic, I created some quick fish sketches. I chose to not draw images of fish I had seen in these books, and the documentary, as I wanted the pictures to be a spontanious automaton of my mind.
idea for final piece
A few weeks ago, I came across this image on tumblr..the image of a long map on a wall. This, along with other parts of my research, has made me come to the conclusion that my final piece will be like a map; it will probably be in the shape of a fish, with a detailed picture story within the shape..the story moves along within the fish, and the fish swims along the paper. My piece must convey a...
I like the idea that we are all animals. I always pick out human characteristics when I look at animals (and the other way round sometimes). Looking at a black cat, they walk around in a very elegant way, light as feather. They blink. It’s something about that blink that reminds me of someone else blinking. Not just anyone; it blinks in a certain way different to it’s other cats. It is...
Mexico's Underwater museum
Every year, thousands of tourists flock to see the coral. Because many of the tourists are unexperienced divers, alot of the reefs suffer damage. The underwater museum, was set up in the hope to attract tourists, and let the reefs recover. The sculptures are made from PH neutral concrete, which is hoped to attract algae and other marine life. I like the idea that the people are helping the...
I recently watched ‘Modern Masters: Matisse’. I felt really connected to Matisse’s work in ‘Jazz’, a book he created after almost dying, due to a long illness of bowel cancer. In this book, Matisse stated that all his work before his illness felt tight and contrained, and that what he made after his illness, constitudes his real self: free and liberated. In...
Over the course of a day, I worked into a 6m length roll of brown paper. I first drew in a thick felt tip pen, the frequency line of the song whilst listening to the song..coincidentally my pen stopped at the end of the song, right at the end of the paper! The next stage was to draw out images in relation to the lines. I worked from the automatic drawings I made earlier; wizards, fish, swans,...
Where my project next takes me..
The other day, I did 2 large scale automactic drawings whilst listening to Hidden Place.
I started the first piece, by using a large graphite crayon. I closed my eyes, and just let my hand move the crayon in relation to the movement of the music.
On the 2nd piece, I used 3 different colours of crayon, each different colour representing a different layer of the song (e.g vocals, underbeat,...
This week, and last week, I have been exploring the world of automatic drawing; I started, by using Caran d’Ache Neocolor; Wax Oil crayons. I started using them, as automatic drawing has a very child-like sense to it; there is loosened control, fluidity and carelessness. They look more like colour pencils on paper, but the thick ended nibs, bring out the childish ways.
After completing 2...
