#ideas development

02/03/22

Animation:

I used the skills I learnt from my animation workshop in order to create my short duck animation, my talented friend Ciara @k00276252 helped me with the layer tool in order to create the moving element of the duck swimming and was really informative about animation! Collaborating with people is lovely, I really enjoy learning and making art with other art students, and I think this is great as animators work together in studios so it helped me experience this.

I used layers in Photoshop to create the background of the Grove Island canal, and used file export to place the image. To create the illusion of ducks bobbing along the canal, and I slowed the time rate down to 0.20 seconds per frame!

NINE INCH NAILS - THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL

GRAPHIC DESIGN - IDEAS DEVELOPMENT

TRACK 12: REPTILE

EDIT: I’m after being informed by Andrea (https://k00234566.tumblr.com/) that the worm I found is actually a New Zealand Flatworm, a particularly invasive species not common to our part of the world that should be reported when found. Thanks Andrea! I knew it was up to no good...)

As our protagonist’s plea for someone to end his suffering go unanswered, he naively attempts to salvage some shred of his former self, or perhaps even find a way out of what he already knows deep down is inevitable, his destruction. 

We can assume from the opening lines that the woman this man encounters is not the same as was hinted in ‘Piggy’ or ‘Closer’, but more than likely a prostitute:

“she spreads herself wide open to let the insects in she leaves a trail of honey to show me where she’s been she has the blood of reptile just underneath her skin seeds from a thousand others drip down from within… oh my precious whore”

The images of ‘honey’ and ‘insects’ always stood out to me in this song. I decided to get a little on the nose with it and take a jar of honey out to the field across from my home. I dripped the honey on to different surfaces to see what kind of effects I can get. I was happy with the way the colours and textures of the rusted gate and aluminium pan complimented the honey, but I wanted to get some insects involved if I could. 

I turned over as many rocks and pieces of garbage as I could, and succeeded in finding many different ant colonies around the place. However the pictures of them I took on my phone were underwhelming as they were too small to make any sort of impact with the camera i was working with. 

Then I lifted a rock and found one of the weirdest things I have seen in recent memory. What appeared to be some sort of worm that looked like an eel started slithering out from under the rock. Perhaps I just don’t get out enough but I have never seen a worm that shape and with the strange off-white border around it. 

I decided to take some pictures and while the worm made it’s way, a nearby slug suddenly shared my curiosity and started following the worm. I caught a few pictures of their encounter and then let them on their way. 

Inspired by David Hammons I used what materials I had available to me and began experimenting with blowing as a way of mark making. 

I have refined my concept from “Ritual Movement” to “Mapping Sound”.

Ideas development that I haven’t already posted!

Conceptual and Ideas Development has helped me to catch a glimmer of a thought... and run with it!

When I think of Biophilia, I think of how humans are just subconsciously drawn to animals. It is in our DNA to want to be near them, in some form or another. This bond has been proven to be beneficial in a therapeutic way, and I have experienced this first hand.

I now feel that when I think of a word I can create a whole world of possibilities or ideas.

ideas development; Sketchbook work including layering opaque, transparent, and translucent paper.

Based on work I have looked at by Idris Khan I printed out the ‘stick object’ on different papers of varying transparency. From a single image, in Photoshop, I duplicated layers, rotating each slightly to give a ‘blurred’ or ‘fading’ effect. I also lined up mini-images of the object which looked to be a lot like barbed wire.