Week 5: Monday 28th April 2014 UNIT X

Week 5: Monday 28th April 2014 UNIT X

 I have gathered materials based around my family home and objects my family have collected over time.

 From my grandfathers books, old objects, including a Victorian cherry stoner, medals, and more flooring from my sitting room floor.

I have also taken my own photographs of interesting spaces and points around the house inspired by artists the Boyle family  and photographer Lars Tunbjork whom both focus on ordinary moments of collision and surface texture.

   My Photographs.    

                                                           
                                                               



                                                           

                                     

The Boyle Family (1999) The Boyle Family, Untitled [online] [ date accessed 25th April 2014] http://www.boylefamily.co.uk/

The Hybrid Creative Agency, (2014) Lars Tunbjork, untitled. [online] [date accessed 27th April 2014]http://www.adamsky.se/photographers/lars-tunbjoerk

Focusing on the domestic space and creating a moment a collision in time photographer Lars Tunbjork has a similar concept to mine. his images are object based and sometimes the scale is unknown.

                                                                                                     

                                 My photograph of the historic books I collected from my family home.

From these photographs and using the books to directly scan from I have created more image based work that I will take into digital print, I have created around 100 samples this week this is a select few.

Focusing on moments of collision and history these samples provide an insight into the emotion, history and links into my family life. 

I have up-scaled and tested experimenting with these prints in Large A1 scale, the photograph is of work in progress in my studio. The prints evoke such emotion and historic feeling on this large scale. They are in-keeping with my concept and I am transported to the historic old place in which they originate from.

 

Monday 7th April 2014: Easter Holidays

I have reflected over the weekend and although the concept behind my work is evoking memory and history of the past, through surface pattern and texture. The places I have chosen to photograph are historical but they are not personal to me where as the objects are.

So I now will be focusing on my family home over Easter holidays collecting more evidence and memories to evoke emotion through surface it is a place where I have lived all my life present and past collide, family and preservation are important to me.

Monday 14^th April 2014- Week 2 of Easter Holidays 

 This week I will be creating an online presence collaborating with a graphic design student and creating pattern based samples in Photoshop ready to digitally print on arrival back at uni.
Although these edits in Photoshop are originals of my work I feel I have lost ownership of my work and what my work is all about, by collaborating with someone else.


My work is about found pattern and texture and recreating that moment where as these prints are too manufactured and repeated.  Collaborating has been of great use to myself and I have learnt that I still have to convey my ideas and these prints do not do that.

Monday 21^st April 2014- Week 3 of Easter Holidays
Taking final photographs of my family home, a place where the present and past collide, collecting more objects which have an emotional connection to myself.

Week 4: Monday 31st March 2014 UNIT X

Week 4: Monday 31st March 2014

UNIT X

This week has been a slow week creating collages I have been layering objects and physical samples upon the scanner improving on last weeks samples to be created into a digital print.







 A combination of fabric and paper samples scanned into Photoshop, edited and digitally printed on a crepe de chine fabric. A4 in size, I am working in small scale at the moment whilst I experiment.







I will  upscale and create larger and professional digital prints on fabric and paper to be utilised in my exhibition and portfolio. I have also been thinking about what my exhibition will look like and making notes and ideas in my sketchbook. 



I have been researching a context for my work and as an image maker my work can potentially be used for many outcomes, as I am working in a sheer fabric and the prints are painterly my samples seem to lend themselves to fashion scarf design. 


I have been researching a textile designer  Michael Van Der Ham. 
He is a Central Saint Martins graduate who mixes and collages busy prints creating a tactile fabric. His work is striking and utilises collage in a way similar to my work. His context and audience  is similar to mine and creates fabric fashion scarves for a young female audience.


Liberty of London. (2014) Michael Van Der Ham, chiffon scarf [online] [date accessed 30th March 2014]http://www.liberty.co.uk/fcp/product/Liberty//Light-Blue-Collage-Print-Silk-Chiffon-Scarf/101117

Week 3 : Monday 24th March 2014 UNIT X

Week 3 
Monday 24th March 2014 
UNIT X



I have been in discussion with a graphic design student who I will collaborate with to design a website and business cards and digital prints, enabling myself to achieve an outward facing approach and to reach new contexts and audiences.

My first experiments last week of digitally printed samples did not work as too much started to happen in each sample, it was busy, complicated and did not portray my concept of absence, emotion and memory. This was due to many factors including fabric choice and colour of original samples. This week I have been focusing on scanning in objects rather than flat photographs. Taking 3D - 2D to create depth within the samples.

 I have revised my fabric choice and printed on crepe de chine fabric, the weight of the fabric combined with the scanned 3D objects rather than just photographs creates an illusion of past and object. 

Scans of materials and objects I have collected from my family home. These objects mean something to myself and the emotional link contained within them is something I am focusing on abstracting.
above: old threads and shoe laces.

Below: old wallpaper from my family home I have stitched into, scanned, edited in Photoshop and then digitally printed.

Below: old flooring, placed on the scanner and edited in Photoshop.

Using a more monotone colour pallet rather than many colours like the week before is portraying my concept and combined with a sheer fabric it evokes the feeling of the past or something being old and worn.

For this project in-particular these samples are being focused towards a collection of fashion scarves. I have been researching textile artists whom work in a similar context. Weston Earth.. create bespoke fashion scarves by combining eternal qualities of nature with the latest technology. Focusing on the moment created in the natural rocks and minerals they focus on re- creating that moment on fabric.


Liberty of London. (2014) Weston Scarves,light grey cacoxenite silk scarf. [online] [date accessed 26th March 2014] http://www.liberty.co.uk/fcp/product/Liberty//Light-Grey-Cacoxenite-Silk-Scarf/103265