Sherry Chen

The work seeks to illustrate the capabilities of digital media as a platform to create art – that would otherwise be difficult to do by hand. The machine is therefore, a medium of creativity.

Multiple layers of the same image (from experiment 2) were created and were rotated and placed on top of each other. Soft light mode was used.

All the layers were set to ‘multiply mode’ 

Used the program alchemy and the repeat + randomise tool (repeated the shape of lines drawn by the cursor multiple times after each additional click)

Wk 5 class activity: colour walk Examined the colour yellow through paddington and the campis

Though the three experiments involving a cardboard box, I have transformed it from a functional and practical object ultimately into an aesthetic, spherical ball which holds no utility and function as it originally did. The destruction of the form of the box into a pile of shavings through the physical process of grating highlights the ephemeral nature of functional objects. This emphasises that within our consumer – driven world, the man - made objects which we deem as important and essential to our day – to – day life are limited in use, and will ultimately, through thousands of years, become nature again – as depicted by the mountainous shape of the shavings. Connected to the previous experiment, the voluntary and dissolving of the shavings in water mimics the natural process of erosion and weathering. The cardboard, or the ‘mountain’ is thus transformed into a formless liquid mixture, which can be seen as a symbolism of the irrevocable contamination of human creations upon natural ecosystems. The final experiment of using filtration to recollect the cardboard shavings into a spherical shape can be seen to posit the circular nature of our relationship with the natural world.

This experiment further demonstrates the obstruction and obscurity of the original form and function of the cardboard box. Although its original purpose was purely functional - to contain and transport - it has now been transformed into art - an aesthetic object.

The shredded box particles were submerged in water in a cup to further emphasise the destruction of its form and function.

Unfortunately some of the cardboard shavings were lost in an accident.

wk 3 Class activity: transforming a stool Magazines obscured and transformed it into a statement about the influence of overflowing media and advertisement

Wk2 Class activity Remade Leib’s “Pollen” through a collection of fine - grained materials

The original box before transformation