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avocado jewellery experiment
I decided to make little clay avocado themed pieces. Weâre making an avocado themed fashion shoot tomorrow so I think these will be nice as part of that. After painting both the toast and the avocado I think I like the avocado a lot more and I think it will make a nice necklace for our model who will also have green eye makeup/etc
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seeds
My dad was collecting avocado seeds moths ago for their nutritional benefits or whatever and I remembered that I took these photos one morning because the sunlight had looked so golden and majestic. Could be interesting to include something like this in our publication.
publication progress
our group assignment begun slowly as we decided to run with the first idea we had- memes but however struggled to make anything artistic out of that idea and nothing really happened between the start of the assignment and now. We brought the issue up within the group and decided to change our topic for our publication and weâre now working on an avocado themed publication inspired by the recent controversy on millennials spending too much money on smashed avocado at cafes when they could be saving money for a house. We spent some time in our lesson brainstorming ideas for our publication and weâre intending to create satirical pieces about money and avocados. It will be a publication that is saturated with avocado imagery.
Front cover?
Orestis Seferoglou -Â Uniformity
Artistâs statement:
âUniformity: the quality or state of being uniform.â¨â¨
The desert as an open space has multiple roles and states. The basic characteristic is uniformity. From every point of view the desert has almost the same image. The desert is transformed into a modern city on an exponential growth. The desert is reformed into an artificial oasis.
West Bay is a newly developed neighbourhood of Doha, in the state of Qatar. It is considered as one of the most prominent areas of the city being the latest district to be built. Some of the tallest skyscrapers of the country are found in this area. The city, as seen from these buildings, loses its small details the higher you get. A reshaped part of the desert that still maintains its uniformity.â
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Week 10 Instruction Activity
assessment 2 final
concept statement assessment 2
In continuing my research on the binary question explored in assessment one I decided to go back to exploring the gender binary as I had intended to for assessment one. My first angle in tackling this topic was inspired by a historical text about witchcraft and witch hunts. I was interested in the way that women had been associated with devils and accused of having sexual encounters with demons and being controlled by them to do evil works. Triggered by the news of a friendâs crisis I soon moved onto the topic of sexual assault and rape culture, for me I had so much anger about what my friend had endured and how real of an issue this became in having personal connections. Where previously this had been an issue which I cared about it didnât feel real until I was consoling someone after she had experienced sexual assault within a queer context, thus feeling alienated as they themselves were closeted and unable to tell anyone but me. I was struck by a sense that this occurrence, especially when within a queer context, is extremely isolating and stigmatising. I think society as whole generally expects that a man could be a rapist and that a woman could be a victim, a result of many archetypes resulting from the gender binary. People donât tend to expect women to rape men, men to rape men or women to rape women, which can make things increasingly painful and lonely for any victim who is part of the lgbt community.
My process begun with writing emotional poems about this occurrence, only one was posted as the rest were quite unrefined and incomplete. I researched poets who had written about their own experiences. I also looked at Jenny Holzerâs use of visual poetry, using skin and condoms as a background to exhibit her poetry. I looked at photography by Sarah Lucas and Martha Rosler's Semiotics of the Kitchen in a broader context of art related to the gender binary. I also looked at Yoko Onoâs Cut Piece and Marina Abramovicâs Rhythm 0, both fascinating ways at investigating human nature and trust- pushing their own endurance to see how far people would go when given the options and not held accountable. I was also reading Olivia Laingâs The Lonely City, a book which explores art history and the psychology of loneliness. Though not directly related to sexual assault the theme of loneliness influenced certain choices in my art making practice- the description of blue and ice being the aesthetics of loneliness lead me to paint the edges of my glass shards blue.
In reflecting on this I gravitated towards the concept of trust being very fragile, something built up slowly but easily damagedâ especially if that trust happens to let someone down within a community which they felt was a safe place. I spent some time thinking about metaphors, thinking about breakable things which could draw comparison to the idea of shattered trust. I experimented with breaking a ceramic jug, painting the pieces in various cool colours (predominantly blue) and gluing it back together- inspired by Zoe Leonardâs Strange Fruit in which she had sewn empty fruit skins closed as a way of dealing with grief and loneliness.
I ended up going with the glass shards for the final assessment as I felt that glass had proven to be more fragile than the ceramic jug and the glass shards I had ended up with were literally impossible to piece back together. I played around with these shards, painting them blue, arranging them to look like sculptural pieces and photographing. After printing some photos I decided that the display of photos and glass shards needed to be more overwhelming. So I drew some interpretations of my glass shards to accompany the photos. in addition I decided to hang the shards from the wall using wire- a symbolic material in itself connoting control and constraint. I also felt like the risk of using wire would be fitting as the shards could fall to the ground and shatter into even smaller pieces- it would all be part of the metaphor, broken trust breaking apart even further.
bibliography
Olivia Laing - The Lonely City
Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1965
Marina Abramovic, Rhythm 0, 1974
Zoe Leonard, Strange Fruit
Jenny Holzer
I forgot to post this when I was looking at her work last week, I was recommended to look at her art when I was interested in using poetry for my work. I drifted away from that idea pretty quickly because I ran out of poetry ideas. This was cool to look at though, the presentation of her poetry adds extra meaning to an otherwise ambiguous out of context phrase.
for this experiment I decided to glue the ceramic shards back together, I found that it was difficult to fit all the pieces together and so I left 3 pieces out intentionally to symbolise the difficulties faced when trying to recover from a trauma such as sexual assault. While I think this is visually interesting I think I like the glass shards more, particularly the fact that it is impossible to piece them back together due to having lost much of the vase with shattered parts like this:
as a result the remaining pieces that seem more together cannot fit together and I think thats a much more powerful metaphor in looking at the nature of trust and actions like sexual assault making trust irreparable.
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Zoe Leonard - Strange Fruits
This artwork doesnât deal directly with my chosen topic, however it is a result of immense sadness and grief- being hit by the death of David Wojnarowicz during the AIDs epidemic Leonard begun to sew fruits back together. In looking at the topic of sexual assault as an occurence which is also painful and depressing I thought it could be interesting to glue one of my broken items back together.
Experiment 5: continued. After drawing onto the last set of three trees, I decided to get more images of bark and use a brighter pen to highlight the intense effects people are having on the environment. I also decided it would be interesting to have the pen build up its coverage over the images. This shows how over time our environment is getting worse and the pollution is over powering the natural environments.
I like the the use of the gradual eraser within this work, and more so the meaning behind the use of this effectÂ
Major Project (Assessment task 2)
Concept statement:
In my continuation from the previous task in which I spoke about the Syrian crisis as I understood it from the personal experiences of my parents, I sought to investigate another nearby issue which my father has also shared grievance with me over; the severe restriction of food supplies to the Palestinian people in Israeli-occupied territories, particularly the Gaza strip. Israelâs response after Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006 is best summed up by the alleged quote from Israeli official Dov Weissglass: âThe idea is to put Palestinians on a diet, but not make them die of hungerâ. While he may deny having made this remark, the âRed Linesâ document, compiled by the security establishment and Israeli Ministry of Health which reveals the necessary amount of food trucks to enter Gaza to meet the minimum standards for caloric consumption, creates grim contrast to the amount of trucks actually being allowed into the strip. On average, only 67 of the necessary 170 supply trucks were allowed in daily from 2007-2010. Additionally, products such as hummus and fresh meat were forbidden, and large amounts of food were often left to spoil in the sun during points of their transference.
Before I made a solid decision to explore this concept in depth I had personally become heavily inspired by the kitschy aesthetic of internet gifs, particularly those with transparent backgrounds that allow the user to paste them like animated stickers over blogs, pictures, movies and more resulting in the accumulation of unrelated, excessively colorful gifs that detract from the original subject and give the whole scene a very distinctive, trashy, aesthetic. While experimenting in their use for concealment over various political videos I discovered the world of spinning 3D food gifs on Tumblr and was immediately fascinated by their allure; food made useless through its unattainability yet given a new context through its contemporary aesthetic. I immediately made a mental link between these intangible existences of food to my fatherâs descriptions of the restrictions placed on Gaza which further increased my interest.
The growth of the 3D modelling industry has been accompanied by the emergence of many new aesthetics. In relation to 3d food products alone, their depictions range from the aforementioned bizarre, blocky, spinning gifs of mundane snacks to luxurious, highly realistic scenes that are as fantastical as the images seen in that of cooking magazine spreads. In this field there exist transformed notions of the Classical artistic depictions of still life; the appreciation of the simple natural forms, as well demonstrations of skill, wealth and extravagance. I immediately set about learning how to use the modelling  program âBlenderâ in order to create my own scene, seeking to communicate a scene detached from reality in relation to the revelation of all the food products that had failed to materialize within Gaza.
The process of creating the final scene was very difficult, new challenges and possibilities presenting themselves as I gained a better understanding of the technology were constantly transforming my ideas. For example, the process of texturing and coloring all my models was more complicated than I expected and had varied success on different objects; I painted many of my own textures in Photoshop and found some of my models rendered with surprising realism while others became plastic like, or due to some unidentifiable error were incredibly distorted. I incorporated this into my final work by leaving the glitches on some objects untouched, and covering other objects (including the forbidden meat product) in âloadingâ images to further this sense of withdrawal. Following this there was the challenge of setting the lighting and angles for the scene; I created four different images, each with slightly varying angles and lighting set ups. In the end I used a combination of low, subtle warm lighting in combination with a cold aqua shade cast over the table to achieve a natural and realistic yet solemn effect.Â
My project does not explore remedies for the injustices occurring in the Israeli occupied territories; possibilities of resolution there seem scarce unless the occupation is ended. Instead, my artwork serves as a memorial of sorts for the promises, and basic human rights that were left unfulfilled. The lighting of the scene suggests a setting sun; the ending of one injustice upon its revelation that may well filter into another violation of the Palestinian peoplesâ quality of life. The Palestinian âdietâ has since been unraveled and an authority of Qatar has offered millions of dollars in aid (the first time this has occurred by a head of state since 1999) but we must wonder what further documents and objectives exist in secrecy to punish and discourage efforts for freedom, undeniably a deliberate intention of Israeli authorities considering Gazaâs history of contaminated water supplies, power station bombings and prohibited farming areas. Change is happening slowly as more people recognize the Israeli occupation as an invasion, yet for now, like the loading textures in my artwork suggest, we must wait.
glass breaking experiment continued
I took more sculptural photos but using the mirror with the cloudy sky as a background and I quite like these too.
glass breaking experiment continued
in photographing these shards I decided to play with the shards to create a sculptural feel. I really like the aesthetics of these photos and I feel like the blue adds an emotional feel to the pictures.
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glass breaking experiment
I decided to continue experimenting with the symbolic representation of broken trust, this time with a glass vase. After I broke the vase I painted the edges where the glass had cracked blue in an attempt to make these shards evoke emotion.
ceramic breaking experiment continued
to take this experiment further I painted the shards in various shades of blue/purples/greens to make give the shards a sadder appearance. I then experimented with photographing the shards using a mirror and I think this last picture incidentally came out looking as if the shards had been thrown in the air/are falling and I like how it ties into the general depressing nature of sexual assault/rape culture.
