#ass3

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Assignment 3: Chiaroscuro

Composition

As the course materials instructed I created a still life with various objects and folds of fabric. I took multiple photos of the arrangement. 

Going through the photos I selected six that I felt would make good compositions.

I selected these as:

They have a good balance of light and dark suited to a chiaroscuro composition.

The objects fill the frame but leave space where the folds of fabric can be seen.

I preferred compositions where the skull was in a 3/4 profile as it is more recognisable as a skull and softer than a full profile. 

From this selection I chose a composition I would further develop into the final print. In order to help me to visualise the potential tonal layers I converted the colour photo to a high contrast black and white and a black image and monochromatic version. 

Drawing

I began the drawing process using a grid to help me to block where the objects are in relation to each other. My first drawing focused on the outline of the objects however after trying to add tone to the drawing I realised that the outlines were hindering the shading. 

I started my drawing again, however this time only looking at the tones in front of me, ignoring the objects themselves. Using three shades of blue, the white of the paper and black I worked through the grid systamatically just marking the spaces I could see. This image was much more successful than my initial drawing. 

Developing for Print

Printing

I decided that I would use a reduction method to create the print as I was concerned that the level of detail would be difficult to match over four plates and that the registration in particular would be very challenging. I wanted to experiment with different colour variations and settled on using the primary process colours, traditional sepia tones (often seen in chiaroscuro prints), black and grey and a blue toned print. 

The process was slow and frustrating as I struggled to visualise what areas to cut and which to keep as I progressed through the layers. I find reduction prints quite stressful as knowing that I can’t repair any mistakes without starting again from scratch increases the pressure!

Final Prints

(Please note, these are photos of the prints and I will be updating the images when I have access to a large scanner next month)

Although I do like the shades of blue overall, the lightest shade unfortunately came out too light causing the composition to have a starker appearance.

Like the blue tones, there is not enough contrast in the lighter transitional tones within the grey composition. The colours work well together however and I feel the overall composition is striking. 

Despite the sepia tones not being a colour scheme I personally enjoy, this is my favourite of all the colour variations as it is the most effective. I am glad that I experimented with colours I wouldn’t usually choose. 

The final process print I intentionally offset the colours in the printing process to allow all the colours to be seen in the final print. The end result appears oddly sinister. The red and yellow resemble neon signage which paired with the subject matter creates a sense of unease. 

Within my learning log I have removed the annotated story to protect the content from potential plagiarism. 

CONCEPT

Knowledge has a beginning but no end. This encourage us to learn more things and develop new skills. As elderly get older, their movement tend to slow down and they only want to chill and relax. In the model shown, the stones are stacked up coiled around with metal wires.

Hence, this represent the step of started from the bottom to top. Adapting and trying new things are hard but slowly through it, you will get there. Whatever happens in middle will be the ups and downs. At the end of the day, you will get to where you wanna be. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

968 is an adult daycare rather than a nursing home.  It is designed to provide care and companionship for older adults aged 62 and above who need assistance or supervision during the day.

We offer relief to family members and caregivers, allowing them to go to work, handle personal business, or just relax while knowing their relative is well cared for and safe in our hands.

OVERALL BOARDS WITH ME

PRESENTATION BOARDS

SPACE MODEL

GROUP PHOTO

REFLECTION

I’ve learnt that time management and research are a huge part in our understanding of design. The more you research, the more ideas you’re gonna get and explore. I’ve step out of my comfort zone and the outcome turned out great (sewing/ pottery area).

Time management is also important because it  is process of planning and with that, you can finish one task and at a time without stressing out yourself. I was so lost in the middle of the process but at the end I got my head on straight. 

Images taken of the room in effect. Photo taken by Cindy

Concept Statement:

The design idea behind this collective event project moves forward in bridging a reflection of ourselves and the intricacies of our ways into the world of desire and the matters of lengths and paths one might take to encounter that desire. The event investigates the idea of desire making sense to one but not to another. Through the multi-faceted presence of a room, it was witnessed by all that when three opposite perspectives are contained and released in one area that there is no telling in how each side makes its way into its desired place. Where along the way the class has somewhat witnessed the after-effect of the remaining rope bouncing off across different sections of the room. For this project, the class was forced to navigate themselves a place in the room to fit in almost amplifying the case of how one might be able try to forcefully fit themselves in an area amongst the readily made choices by an individual who carves their path to their desire; much like staking a claim for your birthright: it is something that is so instinctively you, no matter how typical that desire is; whether that be in the form of money or happiness. The destruction of the language one has produced that makes sense to them as they move to their desirable. The chain of cause and effect taking place is sometimes not being realised along the way. It made for an intriguing experiment to understand that desire as allowed by the perspective is able to bend over will without complete sense to reach the endpoint. 

More excerpts of the room installation focusing on Cindy and Patrick’s walls

Our group put the room together through the process of filming and editing through Adobe Premiere, manipulating imagery through Adobe Photoshop and overall materials acquired from art and craft stores produce the messy room of energy as it reacts in a contained room in its continuous loop to reach the desired. The integration of coloured tape as it surrounds its respective desire with Blue for I, Red for Fiona and Green for Cindy represents the target point for the perspective to make way and achieve with the coloured tape presented in a manner that almost envelops each of the walls’ images to serve as to what is important in the moment. The spaghetti yarn stretched across the negative space going left and right captured in this frenetic energy assumes a physical image of each personas’ path making its way to the desired where emphasised on is the careless nature that we take with us as we become self-obsessed creatures focused on the sole importance of that one fundamental thing in our eyes: home, true love and the past. 

As we enter into the final phase of the project as it becomes realised as a final event, we look into pieces that are standing as pieces of influence for the making of this collective event. A particular series of photographs by Jeongmee Yoon became a certain contemporary fixture in the formation of the rooms central ideas. Yoon designed these photographs in correlation to the notion that colour had and still has an influence in the upbringing of people in reference to gender. The photographs as displayed below elevate the boys and girls and their gender-ness in their respective rooms as assigned by colour; unsurprisingly blue for boys and pink for girls. Regardless of the gender-centric conversation that arises from the photographs. Our group was particularly fascinated by how Yoon has displayed the children in prideful splendour of who they are: their room with their miscellaneous objects that define who they are. Almost mimicking the role of colour to be used in our event to display our paths in the opposite where disarray instead of clarity is being explored.

Jeongmee Yoon’s ‘Pink and Blue’ series of ongoing photography

Our group was enamoured by the look of pride that these children had to display themselves and what defined them and that quality is definitely something we’d like to amplify within our event where that would in turn translate further into the idea that the desirable makes sense to the one that desires and with pride they follow the specificities of the path to that desire in full confidence to take charge into it not realising that every else is confused by the mess that to be made when one is hell-bent on their fixation with that desire and achieving it.

A particular point from the Week 11 slides on desire went full circle in bringing to our group a refined and a realised idea of what we want to do for the collective event.

“...desire drives and inspires us; pushes us to deconstruct and obsess. Desire forms us as creative entities. The desire of ideas, concepts, materials, and methods can drive projects into unpredictable and profound territories.”

The notion of desire as assimilated with the words drive, push and transport into different points is something that became synonymous with our previous point about the idea that this particular push and path into that desire (or how that desire pushes one to another) might help us arrive at points and ideas that may seem inconclusive, undefined and quite frankly confusing other than to that person and so to put our final concept in one sentence:

Desire makes sense to that one person but maybe not so much for others

So moving on with this concept, we have finally resolved to reaching such ideas with a reflection of ourselves projecting some of the desires that are bubbling up to propel us into different zones that are only in full clarity to our mindset. Fiona, in particular, decided on the desire to find her other half one that is the opposite of her ex-boyfriend while Cindy focused on the lost remnants of her childhood innocence as attached with the spitting image of puzzle boards; something that she used to love as a kid, however, ruined by a sad memory of a family feud while my desire is connected to an ever-broken image of home and how I’ve never really had one to call it due to the nomadic lifestyle of my family and our moving of houses almost every year. The race to reach these three desires were something that we were invested in due to them being something that we have dealt with for long periods of our lives almost seemingly impossible to reach yet continue to aim hard for in the long run. The idea that  capturing three of our determined paths to reach that particular desire and map that out through every corner of a room is something that we, from the get-go, understood as something that would resemble people in the middle of a game of Twister: all bending a few backs and some bones to reach the winning point.

During a typical Wednesday ADAD class, we moved forward by filming some scenes of us walking across places around Paddington campus walking to an undisclosed destination which we thought would strongly capture the notion of our endless endeavours with our particular desirables. As a group, we discussed the particular usefulness of colour coding throughout all the imagery to be plastered across the corners of the room’s walls. This became our way adding simplicity in displaying each persona’s way of movement within the room and also amplifying the concept of our desires being contained in a room seen as making its own way almost as if the path being made is 

Excerpts of the film taken of each of us walking around Paddington to be repurposed into separate colour coded films of us to add onto the visual imagery of the three different paths