Exam review

Exam Review

What are the themes and starting points you have followed? (breadth of ideas)

The themes and starting points that i followed throughout the exam unit are;
-The five senses
For this I experimented with the inside of the body and bringing it to the outside of the body:

I did both digital and Darkroom experiments for this idea and I also used embroidery to enhance my images.
-Spaces

 






I used photoshop to fill in the empty spaces in my photographs. I did this by taking photographs of things typically associated with outdoors such as grass, bark and flowers, I cut around parts of the photo with the lasso tool then I dragged them onto my photographs of empty spaces found indoors and filled in the spaces. 

How have your ideas changed? (development of ideas)  

When I started experimenting with these ideas my ideas were pretty much as basic as they could be but once I tried out different things I got more ideas of how to make my ideas better and more interesting.

What experiments have you followed and show best experiments (records of experiments)

I folowed a few YouTube tutorials inspired by artists thata inspired my work and experiments;

-Skull experiment;

-Double exposure;

• What experiments have been successful/not successful and why? (understanding of materials and their potentials and limitations)

I did an experiment using stencils and sunlight, this was not at all successful as the sunlight wasnt strong enough. I would like to try this again once it's sunny again. To improve this experiment I will use diffrent types of emultion to cote the paper giving it a better chance of working. I will also follow a different set of instructions just incase the once I followed before were not right. Here are the stencils that I cut by hand, I used skulls and the human body as it relates to other themes and experiments that I have explored:

• What experiments, techniques and materials do you want to develop further? (refinement of ideas / experiments)

I would like to do more Darkroom experiments like handmade negatives like these;

I would also like to re-do my Anthotypes experiment as that didn't work when I first tried it.

What artists have you looked at and what artists have you found yourself, which ones are you following now/most, show visual clues/work (connections to the work of others)   

The majority of my work has been highly influenced by Matthew Cox' work, I have looked at much of his work but the project that stands out to  me the most is where he stitched into x-rays completing the picture to show what was on the outside of the bones. This is the direction I would like to see my work go in. 

 

Exam plan - what do you want to do in the 2 weeks when we come back before the exam? THIS MUST BE DETAILED.

I plan to experiment with my final idea by making an exam mock up, I will make a practice cyanotype and begin to try a few things out with it. 

Research for final outcome-Mary Shelly's frankenstein and genetic modification. Experimentation

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Marry Shelley's Frankenstein is about a handmade 'monster'.

I plan to use this idea in creating my final outcome, I will do this by incorporating pages/paragraphs from the book that contain a lot of descriptive words about the monster. I also plan to make a 'monster myself' by photographing the 'perfect' eye, hands, lips etc and putting them together. 

Genetic Modification

For these collages I cut out the 'perfect' eyes, lips, hair etc and used them to make one image, technically this should have made a 'perfect' person but instead it looks more like a monster. relation to Frankenstein research and inspiration. 

Patrick Hickley

Here are two of Partick Hickley's hand printed cyanotypes, he did these on watercolour paper and then hand stitched in internal parts of the body on top of the image. This heavily relates to what I plan to do for my final piece because I am also working with cyanotypes and stitching.

Patrick Hickley is currently a student living and working in New Zealand.
I am inspired by his work because much like Matthew Cox' work up until now I haven't seen or done anything like this before.
I like his work because it is different and I like how the bright red thread stands out against the background. I also plan to use red thread for veins in the body.

Fruit modification experiment

For these experiments I used photographs of fruit and photoshop  I used the lasso tool to select the part of the image that I wanted to move to the second image. I then dragged it into the window of the other photograph and duplicated it and arranged it so that it gave the desired effect. I enjoyed doing this experiment because after my first attempt i got the hang of it and it became very quick and simple to get the desired outcome that i was aiming for. the first image was harder to create as I wasn't completely sure of how to do what i wanted but after that it was easy to do. I could improve this idea/experiment by using more interesting and unusual fruit to make it look more interesting. I would like to use this technique again and maybe use some different objects or even photographs of people to improve on the outcome.

I got the idea for this experiment from the idea of genetic modification and changing something to make it 'perfect'. After reading an article about this I searched for artists that used this idea in their work. I came across a photographer called Elena Kozlova who merged a lemon and A lime, Shown below:

This inspired me to do a similar thing but instead I decided to use the inside of fruit.
My initial idea was to make people think when they looked at the piece because its not something you see everyday. I think that my experiment turned out well and I could develop this by merging more than two fruit or by merging fruit with other objects.

Formative Assessment

Final outcome ideas

For my final outcome I would like to go with my theme of skellingtons and inside the body. I would like my final outcome to have a diagram like feel to it.

Idea#1

My first plan is to print out a photograph I have taken of a skelington, then photocopy it onto acetate and annotate different parts of the body with actual pictures of the body parts. finally I want to embellish in a few organs and veins with thread and wool.

Idea#2

My second plan is to have three different portraits that i have edited in photoshop like the one below.

Presentation ideas

Main ideas:

• Anatomical diagram with embellishment and photographs 
• Three versions of three different edited portraits with skull tutorial using photoshop mounted together 

Tools/Equipment:

• Acetate
• Red and Blue thread+needle 
• Photo-paper
• wool