Practice - Final Pyramids

'Distorted heights' 2016

  

  

Practice - more pyramids

with my pyramids i want to make a piece that has a close gathering of pyramids in the middle and gradients outwards. i experimented with the idea and created a mock-up using 5cm high pyramids. the piece was successful and achieved the look i wanted. from face on wards it looks two dimensional but as you move around it it you begin to see its dimensions clearly. 

to further develop this piece i started experimenting with the heights of the pyramids. from head on they still look flat but the piece becomes more interesting with different heights as you begin to start having to look around each pyramid to see the next. the pyramids at different heights distort the image of the chandelier even more, making this more successful.

my intentions for my final piece is to make this piece a lot bigger so that the observer has more to look at and overload them almost with shard like images.

Studio - Family photos

in the crit the photos id combined together of my grandparents wedding got the best feedback so i have decided to return to this and develop this side of my practice and move away from flowers to focus more on the generations/family aspect. 

i found and scanned images of family photos of when i was young which were in colour and different to my first collage.

i tried it in black and white to see if it would have the same effect as the first one but because the images are clearly more modern the black and white effect does not work as well. when i present the series i'd like to see the progression through time and i think changing from black and white to colour photography is a big part of this.

Dsineyland Paris, 1999

Italy, 1979

Lanzarote, 1998

Studio - combining flowers

i combined flowers instead of photos to convey different periods in different peoples lives.

i chose to use the birth flower of august to represent my life at this point (new born) and a wilting flower for my granddad.

i like the look of the finished piece because you really have to look through the image to make out the flowers because it is so busy with multiple images.

Practice - Pyramids

The more i look at my collages the more i see their faults. from the side they do not look professional or finished because you could see how they were made. i wanted to try out another way of making my collage 3D by making individual pyramids.

i think the pyramids look a lot more professional however i would want them in more order than the scattered state these are in. also in the crit it was pointed out the differences between them pointing towards are away from you. when they are pointing away from you it looks as though i am presenting a singular image where as when it is pointing to you you can see all the aspects of the pyramid. i want to make them also different height to see how that effects the look of them.

Practice - Colourful sides

I wanted to make my collage have different heights to it but an issue that was bough up with that idea was that you would be able to see the paper below a lot more. I thought a solution to the problem would be to make the paper below colourful so it was something else to look at while you move around the piece. i used the image of the stained glass windows instead of the chandelier because i haven't decided which to use yet.

while i like that it still looks 2D from the front until you move around the collage, i don't think the colours add anything to piece. i like that the windows look like broken shards of glass but i think this image is actually too bright and obvious for what i was wanting.

Studio - combining photos

in the crit an idea someone gave me, in response to my recent flower combinations, was to combine multiple photos together instead of just two.

i started with combining all the photos of my Granddad and Grandma's wedding. the end result is a canvas of black and white unclear shapes. i like how you can only make out images within the piece if you study it closely. i think it would have been more successful if there were less images so they were clearer to make out.

the next collage i created was with just group photos from the wedding. because the photos are black and white it makes the collages have an eerie quality, it makes me think of memories in the mind. 

This was using just photos from the wedding of just my grandpa and grandma.

this collage combines photos of when my grandpa was young

And this was just two photos combined of young and old photos of him

for this collage i used an image of when she was a baby, young girl, her wedding, her with her children and the final nice photo we have of her. i combined them all together to make a collage symbolising her life.

i think the most successful was the first one because it doesn't look like photographs until you get closer to it.

Studio - opacity flowers

I prefer using my own drawings instead of  photos found on the internet as it makes the art more personal. i still wanted to combine the family photo and the flower and experimented with layering them on top of each other, changing the opacity.

I think this series is a lot more successful than the previous because they are my own drawings and because the flowers are not as obvious. the first one (the baby) is the most effective in my eyes as the flowers cover the image. I don't think the rose works as well in the wedding photo because its too busy and full, i think it would have looked better if id have placed it only slightly in-front of their faces or lowered the opacity even more.

Studio - photo-shopped flowers

I tried combining the photos instead of having them separate to make them one image instead of two separate elements.

Jasmine, Cape: I am too happy

Camellia Japonica, White: Perfected loveliness

Rose, red: Love

i wanted to also see what it would be like to move away from flowers and just combine the generations in one photo. i like how its unclear to make out who the little girl is because there's such an age gap but i also like how it looks as though shes just an on-looker because of both photos being in black and white.

Studio - flowers representing the life cycle.

i decided to look at photos of my grandma throughout her life and find flowers which best represented the stages in her life. 

Baby's Breath: Innocence, pure of heart.

Primrose: Early youth.

Red rose: Love.

i find it interesting how flowers can have so much meaning behind them without people knowing it.

Studio - week 4 crit

In the crit last week i got some really good feedback for my idea of looking at flowers in relation to a humans life span. a question which was asked was whether or not i should move away from flowers and look purely at the human side of my work however, i love working with flowers and it has become a crucial part of my own practice which is why i think i will carry on with working with flowers.



Georgia O'Keeffe was a name that was mentioned because of the symbolism in her work. because i'm looking predominantly at women's lives (flowers are feminine) id like to create some work that looks closer at the flowers forms.






Mary Kelly's Mother and child work was also mentioned. her work shows the relationship between her and her new born son in media other than just photographs. id like to experiment with text pieces to do with my mum and the relationship she had with her own mum and the one with me as a child and when i was growing up.

Practice - lucas simoes

I appreciate Lucas Simoes' innovative way of making work 3D by building on top of an image and cutting into it to reveal the underlying layer.

Practice - Abigail Reynolds

Reynolds was a suggested artist for me to look at and i'm glad she was. i'm intrigued by her collages that incorporate the old and the new contrast. i also relate through her work because she uses a lot of triangular shapes within them like mine.

Practice - making collages 3D

 I wanted to try and find how i could make my collages 3D so they were more interesting than just being flat on the page. i thought of how you make cubes in primary school by making nets and applied the same theory.

I cut the pieces quite large for the first attempt so it was easier to work with but this actually made it harder to work with when i was trying to put it into a collage. this resulted in it not looking as neat as id like when it was looked at face-on as i normally like the collages to be compact and busy with little spaces in-between.

When you're looking at the collage from the side you can see that its 3D and ho i've done it without looking too un-neat. 

On my second attempt at a 3D collage i made the pieces smaller so they could fit together a lot easier and i think it looks a lot more successful. i like how face-on it almost looks flat until you move around the collage. 

i used the image of the chandelier intertwined with a photo of the alter with a stained glass window so i could combine the twi images i was most interested in.

This collage took a lot of time to create so i need to look at easier ways to create it which are less time consuming so i can experiment easier and quicker.

Both collages look very similar from the sides because they were made using the same technique. however, id like to find a way that makes the work look more professional and clean from the side. 

i intend on experimenting to see if i can make the points stick out more which will mean ill have to cover the white bits. i'd like to see how it looks with the same image around it or a different contrasting angle.