WEEK 10: Monday 25th November 2013 Live Project samples:

Week 10: Monday 25th November 2013

Week 10: Monday 25^th November 2013

The images from Stockport air raid shelters are describing colour, pattern, and composition not the place. I also need to clarify the type of emotion I want to provoke in the viewer, initially I decided on Horror, watching films and creating compositions using colour and ideas found in horror films. From my research and development of ideas this week, it is the idea of the ‘unknown’ and ‘uncanny’ these are the emotions I want to provoke through my installations, photography and collages. 

 I have personally been visiting places around the city that I have never been before. 

 I recorded my thoughts and feelings as I was on the 50 bus to Salford Quays, and as I was on the bus to the Airport. 

There are still things I need to clarify and decide before Christmas, Is it Manchester city spaces I am interested in representing as a place? Alternatively, is it my personal spaces at home that are the places that are the closest to my heart? Mostly what is it that I want my audience to experience? 

Week 9 : Monday 18th November 2013

Week 9: Monday 18^th November 2013

 I visited the Air Raid shelters in Stockport; I need photographs to work from as I am still using my original photographs from the Victoria baths. The Air Raid shelters are a perfect place to photograph for my project, lots of old corners and spaces create a sense of emotion and history.

 I have focused on colour, texture and tone, creating a photograph that has an unknown scale and the place and space is unknown which leaves the audience guessing thus creating an emotional response.

Week 8: Monday 11th November 2013

Monday 11th  November 2013

Continuing to work with collected materials from light bulbs, insulation tape, and electrical wires. My work is very inspired by artists and ideas of Kurt Schwitters. He was one of the first installation artists using found objects as materials, he created the Merzbarn in his parents home and  interestingly he was part of the Dada movement whom enjoyed to challenge art and create unusual concepts. Schwitters work was nothing like the art world had seen before (see image below) he was ahead of his  time and many concepts of installation and reusing materials are present in contemporary work.  I have become fascinated with their themes and concepts from the unusual materials, shapes and combination of image and text.

Schwitters, K. (1923 -1936) Merzbarn[online image][Accessed on 13^th November 2013]
http://www.merzbarn.net/hanovermerzbau.html

Week 7: Monday 4th November 2013

Week 7: Monday 4^th November 2013.

I have been experimenting once again with cardboard I have collected. 
The cardboard has the right properties  from, re useable, strong and lightweight. I have also collected different sorts of tapes; red and yellow electrical tape to FRAGILE tape. I chose these to embellish the boxes, as they all provoke danger and horror and are practical for joining the boxes together. I am very pleased with my outcome this week, the 2D photographs of my 3D work are really working and the boxes I am using are creating a space that pushes the boundaries of what textiles and installation art can be.  This week I have also spent some time in the library finding new contemporary installation artists from, Gedi Sibony and Jacob Kassay.  The images of their work, is enabling me to see a future beyond the cardboard and maybe it is time again to start a fresh with some new interesting materials, that evoke a different emotion from anxiety and horror.

Week 6: Monday 28th October 2013

Week 6: Monday 28^th October 2013

With a long project it is normal to experience peaks and troughs, last week was definitely a low point within my project.  I have been looking at the idea of creating danger or uncertainty within my work. I have been looking and drawing symbols that represent danger. It has become clear from my samples so far that I am a space maker and an image-maker.  My major project is now moving in the right direction, I have researched new ideas surrounding danger from watching films to practitioner research, which is the input, I needed to expand my work and evoke emotion.  For the next few weeks I need to produce exciting practical work that has the right meaning and connotations, this will be done through, material knowledge and samples.

I have been inspired by Antoni Tapies and his political paintings, although my concept is very different to his, he provokes emotion through image, colour and layering of paint.

Tapies, A. (1976) Cartography [online image] [accessed on 20th October 2013]https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/antoni-tapies-2025

Tapies, A. (1958) Grey Ochre[online image] [accessed on 20th October 2013]https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/antoni-tapies-2025

Images of my own drawings using, paint, tape and found objects.