Week 7: Monday 12th May 2014 UNIT X

Week 7: Monday 12th May 2014

THE COLLECTIONS SO FAR AND CREATING A NEW COLLECTION.

Working towards the ending of unit X i have been focused on creating  3 collections based on colliding moments of history with objects I have collected from my family home. As previously featured I have been creating image based samples for my first collection using my grandfathers books. These are steeped in history, from how old they are, the handwriting and marks, the books have lived through generations to tell a tale.

For my second collection I have used pieces of parquet flooring from my family home, my mother and father dug each piece of Edwardian parquet out of our sitting room floor 30 years ago and it has been stood in the garage ever since. Similar to my grandfathers books each item or collection of items I have chosen contains history and a past. Each mark left in the pieces of flooring has been made by someone. It has been my inspiration to make them beautiful again in a new way colliding the past and present, revealing and concealing each mark that has been made.

My third collection I have collected some old tins again from my family home, these tins are from custard powder tins to old type writer ink tins. I have been working with these in a similar process, scanning in, moving and arranging. Using the tins on the scanner became difficult I began to read the object as a whole image and it was not having the desired effect. (see image below)

I had to rethink my own ideas and concepts of the project to make this new collection work. Rather than scanning in the whole object, i began to scan in part of the tin and created collisions with several tins. (see image below) It became an image again like collection 1 and 2 focusing on the history, marks and cracks that had been created. with some more developement work this was to be my final collection.

Inspired by artists like Candy Jernigan and her artist book EVIDENCE. She creates a new book a collection of found objects. Her object choice is very different to mine, she collects waste bus tickets, road kill, anything that is deemed as rubbish. But the same idea occurs in both of our work, the idea of transforming an old or unused object into new works of art. colliding the  past and present.

The Daily Scrap book.(1991) Candy Jernigan: Evidence. [online] [Accessed 11th May 2014] http://www.thedailyscrapbook.com/entry.html?id=93

In addition I have been working on some Business cards for my Exhibition, this is a sideline project and something I will refine and  I will professionally print them  in the build up to degree show. Below I have some simple examples of ideas of what they could look like.