#pzzlmnt

16.03.16 | Barbican

Today, if not only for a change of scenery, I went to the Barbican centre again. The space itself is quite overwhelming. It’s clunky and dense and so not aesthetically pleasing that it somehow becomes it’s own endearing aesthetic. I appreciate the dulled hues and lack of saturation that encompass the whole centre, alongside the dark, sturdy bones of the building. The whole ‘feel’ of the place is similar to what I want for my zine. It’s enticingly strange and out of place. 

15.03.16 | Storyboard

01.03.16 Exhibition Poster [Revised]

01.03.16 | Mood Board (Textures)

I am currently trying to create a catalogue of my work within the pzzlmnt artistic movement. I’ve never even begun testing layouts before, I’ve always sort of just taken that for granted in any display setting. 

I’m going to go down a zine type path, loosely following the style of fanzine publications, like ‘sniffin glue’ but with a load more colour and order, because that’s what, I believe, best suits the movement aesthetic. (+ some fancy paper textures because that’s what I’m into.)

This is my first go at a mood board for the kinds of papers and textures I want to use within catalogue. I want layers of clashing, bright and bold repeat patterns and blocks of colour accompanying the images. The movement itself aims to shove it’s work down your throat and be nothing if not bold, so that’s what this needs to be. 

02.12.15

Standing on a tube wearing a white mask (our initial plan) wouldn’t have been appropriate in light of current events, so we settled for standing around Brixton wearing the ‘Think’ mask, inspired by the Barbican Charles and Ray Eames exhibition, for the Pzzlmnt artistic movement (adhering to the collective aesthetic and core values).

We were thinking real-life versions of the facial subtraction images that fall into the movement [ Examples: 1, 2, 3 ] that we could put into public spaces, evoking responses from people other than just gallery goers; normal people. Everyone. We incorporated the elliptical imperative ‘Think’,  telling you to consider something, but you’re unsure of what that is. 

What am I thinking about? What is this telling me? 

People tended to stop and stare, laugh, take pictures, but no one bothered to ask us what we were doing. 

--.11.15

We got a couple of the details wrong (I definitely told my group that we were meant to do it differently, but what good is an ‘I-told-you-so’?). Still, I think aesthetically this exhibition poster captures our movement to some extent. (Our movement focuses on the heightened interest and consideration created by a lack of awareness; a curiosity to learn more when only some of the information is divulged.)