UNIT2 EVALUATION

Things I liked doing in this some what project:

• The Process of "Repeated Processing" to achieve the Meat is Murder Mash Up.
• 'Busy Words No3' - the amount of personal expression, which is included in the piece.
• 'Krishna Killed the Caravans' - I enjoyed creating the poem which was the main subject source of the piece, and creating the image as a statement to express an a feeling of horror to an imaginative event of history.

Things I didn't really 'not like' anything in this project, the points above are just things I enjoyed making and creating. The Kite Project I am also very happy with, how it has been created and achieved, and the appraisal for the Interviewers who reviewed the Project at the Interview. All of the images incorporate with the UNIT2 are developing different ways of making a self-portrait. The first is incorporating subjects, themes and ideas, The second is  multilayered imagery of people and faces, Then the third is life drawing and the photography used to create the Final Grids. Meaning they are all bonded by the fact they're are all portraiture.

I have selected these as my final images because I think they are the most successful within the confines of my self defined criteria. I think they are successful because of the repeated process I used which gives an interesting layered surface, also the changing colour between positive and the negatives offers a contrast that is complimentary in a set. I enjoyed working with these processes as you can never completely control the final outcome, which keeps the process interesting for me.
I have selected to present them on my blog at present as this offers me a global audience and keeps the cost down. If they were to be exhibited in a gallery then I feel they would best be displayed as large format prints, potentially taking up a full wall.  

MAN MET KITE PROJECT

The Kite Project was an Entry project to Manchester Metropolitan for a Foundation Year. The named of the project given was 'GRID' and you could chose for a Sub-category of subjects to base the project on. These included; Body, Wardrobe, Mind, Numbers & a few others. I chose Body so it could act with my Life Drawing classes and course that I am currently studying on. So the Idea was to create a Kite out "Grids of Life Drawing". Initially The kite would be made up of the Paper Sketches of Grids of Life Drawing. However I came across a camera called The Polaroid Studio Express which splits a image into 4 separate images, making a grid. So after a lot of trial and error (money & burnt film), I achieved the grids which were Polaroid images of Grids of Grids of Life drawing, which I then scanned into the Macintosh, and set to work constructing them in to suitable Grid layouts for the kite. The ones below are are the "Grid Layouts" ready to be printed on the fabric printer (The printer that continuous kept breaking down).

Final Idea: GRID Layout No1, with added face images on the bottom.

An Idea for the Kite, GRID Layout No2, with face images on the top and bottom.

GRID layout No3

Scan of the Left Side Panel for the Kite

Scan of the Left Side of the Panel for the Kite

Scan of "GRID faces group No1" before cropping
and cutting up of the images. Group No2 has
unfortunately been lost.

Final image of a Grid Face, I like the Bottom left had
image which includes the ghostly image of a bearded man.

Below are cut up images ready to be fixed on the the final Layout at the top of this post.

Unit 2

Meat is Murder Mash up

So to start I will out line what or even the content of this project. Gillian Wearing who is an Artist & Photographer, created an series of pieces, exhibited under the name of "Signs that say what you want them to say and not what somebody else wants them to say" - I have shown 2 examples of these on my pervious post (22nd of January 2014). I have taken Gillian Wearing's Ideas into account decided to produce a number of piece entitled "A brief expression of my current feelings, Stated for everyone to see" My pieces include Alternative, Film and Digital photography, to achieve a wide variety of Rudimentary techniques and experiments. In a few examples of my work I like to include Literature, & Poetry. The pieces of Literature written by myself include "Seagulls Fly & Automobiles Die", "Krishna Killed The Caravans", "LSD", "Meat is Murder" &  "I Fucking Hate how I can't play an Instrument" - All of which can be found in my Private Journal of Hallucinogenic Adventures. 

Meat is Murder Mash up No2

Anyway to the Right and Below are the Digital examples of the work and annotation of what they're about. To Begin I will start with the with Meat is Murder Mash up, which is an photograph, inverted, printed as a cyanotype, then scanned in inverted again then printed onto a piece of watercolor paper, that had the "seagulls fly and automobiles die" in Red ink. The result was rather fantastic and intriguing. After this discovery of 'repeated processing' I decided to scan it back into the computer, invert it into a negative then print it off and I ended up with this image ( Meat is Murder Mash up No2). 
Moving on from this I continued with the realization of Repeated Processing, and decided to create a digital piece entitled "Busy Words No3" in which I layered, four images from my current feeling's section from my Visual Diary. To create a busy experiment of expressions and words, which is shown below first in Positive form then in Negative form.

Busy Words No3

Busy Words No3, Negativized

LSD ( Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) is a Powerful hallucinogenic drug - this means that users are likely to experience a distorted view of Objects and reality, including seeing and sometimes hearing things that aren't really there - these are hallucinations. In all seriousness my Poem "LSD" was a reaction to constant parental and political anguish of the unlimited dangers of drugs, and LSD ranking at number one. So I decided to explore LSD by turning it into a household commodity. Something that no human can live without. And to have LSD FREE ON THE NHS, as a given or a national hero of the people. I decided to express this feeling, so I made the sign, and used the repeated processing process. However this time without the poem included. After that It was then scanned, Inverted, then I had the final piece - LSD FREE ON THE NHS.

WHAT KILLED THE CARAVANS?

HARE KRISHNA DID, HARE KRISHNA DID, "SHOOT HARE HARE" ONE MORE, THE HIT, GIVE ME THE HIT! GIVE ME HIM! THERE I STOOD WITH A HEADACHE, STARING AT THE SEA'S OF THE ABSURD. LOOK AT ME DAMMIT! AS THE LAST CARAVAN SAID, SING HIS NAME!

HARA KRISHNA HARA KRISHNA

KRISHNA KRISHNA

HARE HARE 

HARE RAMA HARE RAMA

RAMA RAMA 

HARE HARE

AS I SANG, HE CALLED THE NAMES OF THE NATIVE PEOPLE. THE CARAVANS, NOMADS OF THE MODERN CITY ARE DEAD. I SAT AND CRIED '' KRISHNA YOU FOOL''

Krishna killed the caravans - was, is an expression of the mind . I believe it have no literary content or purpose, artistically however I think it spark a host of emotions and doubts about religion & deities. As in what possibility could a peaceful 'God' want to commit genocide over a certain group of people. This Idea is widely thought about throughout history to the present, A holy war, A just war in the name of God. However as much as it has been thought about, its never really publicly talked about. So by creating "Krishna Killed The Caravans" I have highlighted an unethical recurring event of history. Which in truth will never be solved. 

Dorothy No2

WERE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE!
Next we have Dorothy No2 ( the model's called Beth for future reference). This a an aspect of a viewer of the Wizard of Oz, who has always dreamed of being Dorothy, and dropping out of the current depressing society of War & Poverty. Then to reemerge into an wonderful cult world of Witches, Wizards, & Munchkins. And to live in an existance of constance happiness and adventure - a childhood dream. Originally I wanted to be the model & for it too be a self-portrait, so it would relate to my feelings on the subject of being Dorothy in the Red shoes. However I decided to go with beth, who would make a more appealing Dorothy than myself.

Dorothy No2 Negative

UNIT 2 A Self Representaion

Unit 2 will be a Self Representation of; Signs that say what you want them to say and not that say what someone else wants you to say by Gillian Wearing 1992-3. As in things, that are said, thought, and felt on a day-to-day scene.

The two images to the Left are examples of Gillian's signs.
These are interesting as they use the general public o make the art work and are all produced in public locations capturing the moment in a spontaneous way.

The text on the signs makes you think about each individuals situation, in that everyone has an internal life that isn't always obvious.

Loaf of Bread, Images and Positives from the Vision Project

These images below were to explore similarities between the past and the current world we live in, with the main Idea of Oppression. And to include themes of Public Resistance, Socialism, & Corporatism - which is slowly taking over. The piece is actually a revision of an early piece by Pablo Picasso, called Woman with Loaf of bread and the idea of his painting is to show the relationship of the peasant & and the changing modernization of the world. 

This has given me a starting point for unit two, which is to explore the theme of portraits with objects added to develop meaning. My main contextual source is Gillian Wearing with her use of signs as a tools for the subject to express them selves. For this work I intent to focus on self portraiture and different alternative processes.

Task 3: Health & Safety

Task 4: depth of field

For this task I again consulted the Google, for a definition of depth of field, here Ive gathered together different Images taken with different formats of film and cameras, each of them contain either long or shallow depth of field.

The first 3 were shot on a Polaroid 104, using FB100c Fujifilm instant film.

This one was shot with a point and shoot Cosmic symbol camera, judging by the image I'd say the speed at the time was 250 and the aperture was 22.

This a pinhole test of a fellow student, which hasn't really worked instead of picking up on the student It has captured the pinhole, to make this image have a short depth of field.