Friday, 20 August 2010
Scale project final project of the year.
The Scale Of Communication
Between Life And Death
Last project of the year based on scale I decided to take a step back and find something that would keep me motivated and interested. I decided upon the scale of life and how a life that could be lived for an average of 80 years is summed up with a grave stone with a few words, its a visual representation of the scale of life.
I began reading about12th century burial rituals and found that people were thrown into the ground with just a sheet and no headstone, many would know this as a paupers grave. In some cemeteries there was tradition century’s ago that a human sacrifice was to made and the soul of the sacrificed was to roam the grave yard for eternity keeping it watched over from the other side while the grounds keeper watched from our world.
Using my imagination I thought about how there representation of remembrance could be expressed through ectoplasm. In the 19th century catching ectoplasm on camera was a huge vibe sweeping across major cities, many photographs were forgeries others unexplained, so I created my own ectoplasm using a variety of different media and materials trying to recreate the fake entity which was ectoplasm, I used cotton wool normal cotton and what was used in many of the famous photographs which was chiffon.
I dressed the photo shoot to look as Victorian as possible taking images from modern day films such as Sweeny Todd and then creating a look based around the characters so it is relatable to the image we have today of the Victorian gothic era.
I created 2 characters one played by myself and the other my close friend Kaylie Davies. I played the alter ego of the innocent character, becoming this uncontrollable entity that is connected to this one lady, it is a split personality spirit guide and alter ego rolled into one its everything that the innocent is not.
My final piece which is displayed is a small scale instillation of life connections and what we use to connect to the other world of the spirits it’s a visual link to the paranormal investigation and the simple tools that would trigger a hysteria of paranormal investigation, leading from the box is a piece of string that represents life, it’s a play on the phrase how long is a piece of string? Arising many questions about life death and all in-between, hanging from the string are tarot cards, tarot meanings, old postcards used during the project and photographs, this is to represent the research of the paranormal and the development throughout the centuries hanging like they would in a photo lab.
Adrianne Xaviera Brookes
Above is my Artist statement which explains my project and its final pieces.
The project started with a simple biref created by Nick.
"By investigateing everyday objects, details and structures in and around manchester be inventive with scale.useng various formats, consider 2D and 3D ways of scaling up and down things you find intriduing in the city in order to produce ideas and props that play with contradictions of proportion, perspective and ratio."
Our first task was to look at the city through fresh eyes go out take photographs and document our experience, and find a little something for Nick that we discovered on our travels.
on my own i went around town and took lots of photographs of the builings and such, picked one photograph and poped it into my sketchbook.
This was all to familiar due to a college project were this was the exact same start to it.
So me and a group of friends went on a walk together and took some amazing photgraphs of the hidden side of manchester, and we ended up in an old train station, which i was teh only one to notice about the danger asbestos signs.woops.
I then decided to take a step back and think out of box, it says lok at the city through differnt eyes, but living in a city for all your life how are you suppost to look at the same things as if they aer new?
I decided to take a trip to someweer i have never been before,organised the train tickets and went to stay with my best friend Kaylie in Aberystwyth, a small town in whales well away from anything were the next town you have to catch a train to.
I looked around the holiday/ student town and found that it was liek a miniture manchester, the cinima had only one screen and the beach was just liek our piccadilly but wit stones n the obviouse sea.
Dureing my last day we took a trip to the cemetery, as a prior trip to southem cemetry with Liz and Jez i found that the statues and gravestones were very beautiful.
After my little trip i looked deeper at the photogrpahs and found unusual balls of light in the most random of places in the photographs.
This is what kicked off my project.
I thought about the gravestone being a smallscale representation of a life form, then thought about how orbs and ghosts are to a form of small scale life form, there an echo almost of what did once exist.
I researched artist who had worked on ectoplasm, and also looked into the 19th century forgeries of ectoplam on camera.
Then recreated my own, shot lots of photographs witht the help of my friend Kaylie and began to run them through photoshop.
After the project was complete i created a small instilation to go along side the photographs, it was filled with a number of symbolic items photographs tarrot cards, crystals and even a real rats skull, which my cats kindly left in the garden for me.
The images posted below are o sketchbook work, research, final pieces and then my display in sandbar.
Between Life And Death
Last project of the year based on scale I decided to take a step back and find something that would keep me motivated and interested. I decided upon the scale of life and how a life that could be lived for an average of 80 years is summed up with a grave stone with a few words, its a visual representation of the scale of life.
I began reading about12th century burial rituals and found that people were thrown into the ground with just a sheet and no headstone, many would know this as a paupers grave. In some cemeteries there was tradition century’s ago that a human sacrifice was to made and the soul of the sacrificed was to roam the grave yard for eternity keeping it watched over from the other side while the grounds keeper watched from our world.
Using my imagination I thought about how there representation of remembrance could be expressed through ectoplasm. In the 19th century catching ectoplasm on camera was a huge vibe sweeping across major cities, many photographs were forgeries others unexplained, so I created my own ectoplasm using a variety of different media and materials trying to recreate the fake entity which was ectoplasm, I used cotton wool normal cotton and what was used in many of the famous photographs which was chiffon.
I dressed the photo shoot to look as Victorian as possible taking images from modern day films such as Sweeny Todd and then creating a look based around the characters so it is relatable to the image we have today of the Victorian gothic era.
I created 2 characters one played by myself and the other my close friend Kaylie Davies. I played the alter ego of the innocent character, becoming this uncontrollable entity that is connected to this one lady, it is a split personality spirit guide and alter ego rolled into one its everything that the innocent is not.
My final piece which is displayed is a small scale instillation of life connections and what we use to connect to the other world of the spirits it’s a visual link to the paranormal investigation and the simple tools that would trigger a hysteria of paranormal investigation, leading from the box is a piece of string that represents life, it’s a play on the phrase how long is a piece of string? Arising many questions about life death and all in-between, hanging from the string are tarot cards, tarot meanings, old postcards used during the project and photographs, this is to represent the research of the paranormal and the development throughout the centuries hanging like they would in a photo lab.
Adrianne Xaviera Brookes
Above is my Artist statement which explains my project and its final pieces.
The project started with a simple biref created by Nick.
"By investigateing everyday objects, details and structures in and around manchester be inventive with scale.useng various formats, consider 2D and 3D ways of scaling up and down things you find intriduing in the city in order to produce ideas and props that play with contradictions of proportion, perspective and ratio."
Our first task was to look at the city through fresh eyes go out take photographs and document our experience, and find a little something for Nick that we discovered on our travels.
on my own i went around town and took lots of photographs of the builings and such, picked one photograph and poped it into my sketchbook.
This was all to familiar due to a college project were this was the exact same start to it.
So me and a group of friends went on a walk together and took some amazing photgraphs of the hidden side of manchester, and we ended up in an old train station, which i was teh only one to notice about the danger asbestos signs.woops.
I then decided to take a step back and think out of box, it says lok at the city through differnt eyes, but living in a city for all your life how are you suppost to look at the same things as if they aer new?
I decided to take a trip to someweer i have never been before,organised the train tickets and went to stay with my best friend Kaylie in Aberystwyth, a small town in whales well away from anything were the next town you have to catch a train to.
I looked around the holiday/ student town and found that it was liek a miniture manchester, the cinima had only one screen and the beach was just liek our piccadilly but wit stones n the obviouse sea.
Dureing my last day we took a trip to the cemetery, as a prior trip to southem cemetry with Liz and Jez i found that the statues and gravestones were very beautiful.
After my little trip i looked deeper at the photogrpahs and found unusual balls of light in the most random of places in the photographs.
This is what kicked off my project.
I thought about the gravestone being a smallscale representation of a life form, then thought about how orbs and ghosts are to a form of small scale life form, there an echo almost of what did once exist.
I researched artist who had worked on ectoplasm, and also looked into the 19th century forgeries of ectoplam on camera.
Then recreated my own, shot lots of photographs witht the help of my friend Kaylie and began to run them through photoshop.
After the project was complete i created a small instilation to go along side the photographs, it was filled with a number of symbolic items photographs tarrot cards, crystals and even a real rats skull, which my cats kindly left in the garden for me.
The images posted below are o sketchbook work, research, final pieces and then my display in sandbar.
Landurb Project
So in my last project which the brief was set by myself, i decided upon creating a collaboration of landscape and urban jungle.
This project started off as a photography project, and i cretaed a number of photo montages in the style of David Hockney.
In my work i used less photographs and then eventualy changed to the panoramic seting on my camera.
The photographs are in a previouse blog.
In the project i also tryed to create pieces that werent just photography either. i tryed my best to paint and to see what i could come up with when i collaberate both scenes together.
Experiments with painting:
This project started off as a photography project, and i cretaed a number of photo montages in the style of David Hockney.
The photographs are in a previouse blog.
In the project i also tryed to create pieces that werent just photography either. i tryed my best to paint and to see what i could come up with when i collaberate both scenes together.
in this paintng i traced elliments ofrom 10 photographs taken and created a new scene which i then experimented with painting ontop of the traceing paper.
Experiments with painting:
After painting i experiemnted with doodling onto a paper copy of a landscape photograph.
I have ercently found a photoshopped image which is a good example of what i was wanting to show in this image.
Which is a unusual approach to collaborateing both areas as a whole.
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I then tryed to create something unusual with my scanner which was a landscape photograph of trees that were then cut out and photographs placed bhind and scanned to create on image.
It didnt work out very well but was a good experiment which i could use for other projects.
The patterns and textures that were showing through were of random photoographs taken for a college project on the urban environmnet.
From all this i had to come up with some finished pieces, that were a mixture of all my ideas into one.
Here are a couple of my first edits.
the image of the trees with the pinks and purples is now a header on my weebly website http://adriannexaviera.weebly.com/
It still in progress but there is still a lot to view.
Also to view some of the work i did on this project to including the flower chair click on the lnk below.
My final pieces which were up in the link gallery at the end of year:
UPDATE FROM MARCH 2010
I am now on a different computer so blogger now works hurray! :D
I have 5 months to update altogethhr so this may take a few blogs on each subject.
So since my last post which was on My landurb project.
I have done the following subjects. (whcih will get n individual post each.
*Link galelry exhibition/ final show
*scale project
^^
In University
outside of university i have done.
*Drawings
*photography
*scrapbooking
*Painting project
*Summer project
* Sold edits
I have entered competitions for my local paper with photographs which i have taken.
I am volenteering at oldham gallery and have an interview on the 24th next thursday.
And also i am volenttering for a art festival in association with the corner house.
I have sucessfully sold my photogeraphy work and will take a photograph of the tatoo which a family friend is getting of a portrait i took of there little boys.
I have also be asked to photograph for there wedding which will take place next year, and will be paid for my work.
I have 5 months to update altogethhr so this may take a few blogs on each subject.
So since my last post which was on My landurb project.
I have done the following subjects. (whcih will get n individual post each.
*Link galelry exhibition/ final show
*scale project
^^
In University
outside of university i have done.
*Drawings
*photography
*scrapbooking
*Painting project
*Summer project
* Sold edits
I have entered competitions for my local paper with photographs which i have taken.
I am volenteering at oldham gallery and have an interview on the 24th next thursday.
And also i am volenttering for a art festival in association with the corner house.
I have sucessfully sold my photogeraphy work and will take a photograph of the tatoo which a family friend is getting of a portrait i took of there little boys.
I have also be asked to photograph for there wedding which will take place next year, and will be paid for my work.
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