#2d project

For my 2D part of the project I have decided to focus solely on photography, since print is not available to me I have decided to focus that part of the project to researching various prints and their methods. 

The place I will be focusing on is the theme of sea and lighthouses, a location also touched on by the previously researched Ian Breakwell. I chose this as the location of my piece as I am particularly fascinated with the idea of lighthouses and the ocean being a piece of symbolism for loneliness. Lighthouses before the 1800′s were usually manned by 2 people, with a few accidents such as the Small’s Lighthouse incident where after the death of his partner and being stranded on a small island with the corpse, went insane. The law was drastically changed after this to include at least 3 people manning a lighthouse. 

By the 1960′s lighthouses were fully automated with the invention of electric lights. The lighthouse pictured above, the South Foreland Lighthouse in St. Margaret's Bay was the first to do so. The lighthouse is isolated, with a mile walk between the closest parking area and the lighthouse itself. 

Woodcutting is a printing technique that uses a block of wood as a relief. A relief is a slab of material that have been carved to create a recess in the surface, and when painted on top allows any area that is not painted onto to become an image. Because of this, all of the areas that are not affected by ink become a line drawing. 

In woodcut, the artist usually use a gouge to carve out the areas that will not touch the surface area the print is transferred onto. The surface of the wood is covered with a roller which allows the ink to only sit where the surface allows it too. 

White-line printing with Japanese plywood.

Woodcut is believed to originate from china from 220 BC, and first started off as a textile printing method before later moving to paper. Later on in the 13th century the method found its way to Europe and became a dependable method for the old masters when paper was introduced to Europe. Being a dependable method of printing, woodcuts were the main medium for creating books and illustrations during this period of time, a stayed in popularity until the 19th century for the easiness to carve the wood and cheap availability of the material. 

“Psionic Rainfall”

A quicker attempt at painting, this piece was done in about 4-5 hours. The idea of Voidy using his innate psionic abilities to channel a serene and cooling shower on a colony is something maybe only he appreciates.

they way I am hoping to work for this project is like the day to day Project, focus on a different thing each day and the work on the one that works best as i am really struggling this week with figuring out where i want to take this project and i found this to be a quite good way to solve that.

Tuesday - I started the project and started off looking at flowers and produced a few pieces and I also looked at body and the layers and protection in eyes

Wednesday - I gathered videos and photo graphs and looked at my mind map again for inspiration

Thursday - I started to look at the Urban vs Rural and how we are slowly killing nature. I researched the facts of how Scotland and England is divided and i looked at maps of them both as well and experimented and researched it

Friday - Edited 7 photos of what i started to look at on Wednseday and Thursday and also edited Videos that looked at how in a large crowd you arent very protected and when something happens everyone pushes and you can become crushed and unable to breath

Going to video more crowds and the concerts I have coming up and edit them.

Also going to look more at the nature side of things, and maybe look at me actually distorting nature, freezing leaves etc

Im also going to maybe look at comfort things when you are in certain moods that help you and protect you from reality and what that holds