June 2010
4 posts
William Eggleston
David Geeting
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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...
