2015

Piece 1) Untitled, 3x A4 sheets paper, watercolour, acrylic.

Words are arguably just as ambiguous and open to interpretation as images, but this piece uses words and language as a way of reducing the ambiguity- and ‘ruining’ the purpose of Rorschach tests.

Artwork #2

Piece 3) Untitled, edited screen recording of skype conversation.

from ‘Moving On’, 2015.  [Final piece 2]

Top: Moving On (Relationship detritus II) Bottom: Moving On (Weekend detritus I)

EXPERIMENT 1: Assessment 3

Theme: Documentation

I want to document something that is unexpected for myself. Something where I cannot see the process of my work, only the results. In this experiment I initially wanted to draw a series of animal cruelty images, but after being blind folded by my brother and having loud music blasting in the background, I lost my initial goal and just allowed the work to direct me.

The feelings during the creation of this series of blinded drawings was strange, not a good strange but something close to fear and stressed. I did not let my pen leave the paper and only stopped when my brother decided to change my paper.

The result is very strange, I expected to have created a bunch of lines that looks like nothing but it turns out I did a series of blinded drawings on horses, elephants, deer and seals.

Experiment 5: At this stage I’m feeling as though I have experimented quite a lot with the physical leaf, I wanted to take a bit of a different approach and experiement by digitally editing my physically ‘edited’ leaf. So on illustrator I traced the negative space that I created by cutting my leaf, and I was left with quite an abstract image which I quite liked. 

Its at this stage I’ve started to think about how I could transform these experiments into a solid concept for my final three designed objects/artworks.

Considering that I have chosen to use a natural object at the root of all my experiments, I want to make a statement regarding the environment for my final concept. 

I have focused a lot of the destruction of leaves and cutting them apart. Looking back on my work it makes me think about the destruction of nature in the world. And usually the reason for this destruction of nature occurs due to societies need to create industrial buildings and cities. The way I have cut select parts out of my leaves makes me think about the way that we select blocks of natural land and replace it with infrastructure. 

Experiments—Third Photoshoot