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Week 1: Preparation is key

This week I started a new subject: Digital and Online practice. It was the foundation week and I mainly spent it brainstorming different ideas for the project. I already had an Instagram feed with works of my choosing, so I decided to focus on maximising my online presence and continue creating my lino prints. Due to my decision to not employ technology to physically create my work, I was able to gain inspiration from my list of ‘projects to do in the future’. Fairly recently, I had explored making a lino print in the continuous line style. I was pleased with the result and thought that combining the continuous line technique with my love of architecture would be an interesting concept.

I filmed a video of the process of printing the lino print mentioned previously, created a YouTube channel and uploaded it there this week. Image of the lino print is below…

Link to YouTube video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyjgj-yUOdA

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Week 2: Inspiration is everywhere

I’ve always wanted to make a lino print series influenced by the architecture I've seen on my travels. So, I spent days going through thousands of photos and found eight which I felt drawn to and I thought would suit this project perfectly. I decided that having eight images would act as a precaution and I could still have at least seven prints if one of them didn't work or turn out in the standard I had hoped. Below are some of the images of locations I decided to reference.

The next step was to transfer the image onto the pieces of lino. I’ve found previously that projecting the image from picture to a lead pencil sketch on paper, to a transfer by rubbing the sketch on the opposite side into the piece of lino works well. Because I wanted to have the prints act a direct copy of these images, I scanned the sketches with my printer, flipped the image and then printed out a few copies as backups. Examples are below:

Unfortunately, I don't have enough materials for the eight prints at the moment, so I’ll have to go to the art store as soon as I can… The transfers onto the lino will have to wait until next week.

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Week 3: Lino will be the death of me!

Over the weekend I was able to go to the art store and buy PLENTY of materials. (My bank account is going to take a while to recover)… However, I was able to transfer all of my sketches onto the pieces of lino. It then took a few days to carve all of the blocks. Carved blocks below…

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Week 4: Its all coming together…

It’s the final week and this project is almost finished…

After taking a few days to rest my shoulders and neck after all of that carving, I was able to print all the lino blocks in one day! I did have to make a few changes, but thankfully it was nothing too major. I’m super happy with how each print turned out and I hope to add more to ‘The Travel Collection’ in the near future.

To see the full series, check out my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artsy.frey/

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What would modern technology and social networks look like if they were vintage ads

This is a post gathered Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Skype, iMac, Nintendo Wii and Sony Playstation as if they were vintage ads.

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Subjectivity

Subjectivity is how we as humans and our views are moulded by society, in which one is continuously influenced by both nature and nurture. Barker, C (2012, p.220) defines subjectivity as “the condition of being a person and the process by which we become a person” (Barker, C 2012 p.220).

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Essentialism

Essentialism is the idea that every entity within a person consists of a set of core attributes. Like a soul, it is somewhat unchangeable, with external influences having very little effect on it. Barker, C (2012 p.221) states, “the western search for identity is premised on the idea that there is such a ‘thing’ to be found. Here identity exists as a universal and timeless core of the self that we all possess.”

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Unconscious

The unconscious, is the hidden or repressed part of the mind where one’s inner-most thoughts that commonly relate to violence and sexuality are kept. Bennet, A and Royale, N (2016, p.157) state that “the unconscious or ‘not me’ or other: it is and always has been centrally concerned with dreams and fantasy, hallucinations and visions, madness, trance, and other kinds of impersonality or absences of self.” Freud suggests that the unconscious is “not only evident in dreams and these other previously mentioned events, but such occasions as the temporary forgetting of familiar words and names, everyday slips of the tongue and pen” (Freud, S 1986, p.136-317), and other thoughtless actions. The painting explores the collision of the conscious and unconscious mind which his marked by a juxtaposition of realism and expression-based abstraction.

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Overdetermination

Overdetermination can be referred to as all aspects of the human behaviour complex and the result of unconscious influences. Freud’s theory “argues that all psychological (and, by corollary, cultural) material is overdetermined”, meaning “that even the most trivial behaviours...are the focus and expression of the most plural and deep psychological complexity” (Mansfield, N 2000, p.29). The cartoon shows an over-exaggerated representation of a society responding to their unconscious thoughts, that would otherwise be repressed by their conscious mind.

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Sensory knowledge

Sensory knowledge is the idea that information is obtained by our five senses.  “Ichi una, ‘skin knowledge’, as the Cashinahua of eastern Peru” call it, refers to “knowledge of the world one acquires through one’s skin, through the feel of the sun, the wind, the rain and the forest” (Howes, D 2005, p.27). However, it is “not only skin, but all of our organs of perception might be said to possess some form of knowledge” (Howes, D 2005, p.27).

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Creative Influence

Creative influence is the notion of work being influenced and informed by the artist’s surrounding environment, the time of creation, as well as other artist’s artworks. Artist’s influences can often be seen throughout the works they produce. This can be seen through Bacon’s inspiration and creative influence from Picasso can be seen through most of his work of the late 1920s and 1930s. He had mentioned that, “Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint” (Bacon, F 2003, p.28). There is a direct resemblance seen between Picasso’s crucifixion, 1930 (left) and Bacon’s crucifixion, 1933 (right). Bacon also continued to reference Picasso in with other works through motifs and symbols.

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Authenticity

Authenticity refers to an artist’s ability to represent and express their true nature and beliefs to society. It is considered to be “a crucial mode of self-examination...a dominant form of self-expression, one that bears special witness to personal truth...truth of the self and to the self” (Brooks 2001, p.9). Karl Ove Knausgaard’s autobiographies can be seen as an example of this: he doesn’t hold back anything and openly reveals his deepest and darkest thoughts and actions. His autobiographies have become quite popular due to his ability to acknowledge his failures, rather than just focus on all of his positive qualities.

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Creative Identity

A creative identity relates to what an individual possesses and how they draw upon it in their practice. The creative artist’s identity and experiences that have shaped them, influences their creative practice. They can also be thought of a someone able to ‘generalize his or her daydreams in such a way that they are able to gratify the [audience’s] own unconscious desires without inducing guilt’ (Silverman, ­L 1988, p.158). Dali’s Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Awakening, 1944, presents a dream-like scene, that highlights Dali’s surrealistic art style as a possible interpretation of the ‘Theory of Evolution’.

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Fractured Identity

Fractured identity eludes to the subject being composed of “not just a single, but of several (and sometimes contradictory or unresolved) identities” (Hall,­ S 1996, p.598). According to Freud (1977), “the self is constituted in terms of: an ego, or conscious rational mind; a superego, or social conscience; the unconscious (also known as the id), the source and repository of the symbolic workings of the mind which functions with a different logic from reason” (Barker, C 2012, pp.22). The construction of the subject is something humans acquire through our relationships with our parents/ guardians and is a permanent feature of the human identity. This theory relates to this image of Freud and his three identities.

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Social Identity

“Identity operates as a set of resources which people draw upon in presenting and expressing themselves...and is performed to some extent through the alignments people make with different groups” (Tagg, C & Seargeant, P 2016, p.343). It relates to how individuals identify themselves in relation to others according to what they have in common. From the day we are born, “we live in a word that pre-exists us” (Barker, C 2012, p.222). The standardised indicators including, gender, race, ­language, religion and wealth, that are fundamental in all societies, largely dictate your social standing. These images are an example of the negative connotations generated by society as a result of these indicators.

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