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DOCUMENTATION #2 Alien methods & Uncreativity 

My initial idea for the portrait actually combined idea's about my diet and the method of portraiture. I wanted to explore the affects of the medication I had been taking all year. The medication had some serious side affects and one of those was the bulging of my face. My face became bigger and began to resemble Enid Blyton's fantastic character Moonface from The Enchanted Woods. It was such a bizarre experience because while I knew what my old face looked like, all the new people I was meeting didn't. I always got comments like "You have such amazing cheeks!" They just thought 'that's what Bronte looks like'. Only I knew better. 

(click to see image) When it became especially weird was when I began to forget what I looked like. I became so use to the 'new' Bronte. I am still shocked when I look in the mirror to my old self.  I thought it would be great to do a video self portrait in which my face (that is currently it's normal size) began to bugle and grow gradually. Possibly playing the video on loop so my face would grow, then playing it backwards, deflate. I was however faced (no pun intended) with the dilemma of how to make my cheeks grow in size on the video. The first resolution I came up with was to use stop animation, an alien method. Other obstacles that arose were, how would I keep my head still? If I was to do stop animation I wanted it to appear 'smooth' not rough. I had to consider what materials I would use. Plasticine was the first material that came to mind to use to build up my face. Plasticine is a material commonly used in stop animations. (Video above is an example of plasticine stop animation)

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Exploring self portraiture in performance art

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My Diet Map

Monday:

Rice bubbles w/ soy milk

Canned beans w/ dressing and spring onions

Dressing consists of canola oil, salt, citric acid and water

Boiled egg, beans, rice noodles

Four vodka and soda’s

Chips and wedges

Pear pieces in syrup

Tuesday:

Rice bubbles w/ soy milk

Cous Cous w/ spring onion, mixed beans and boiled egg

Two large hot soy milks

Peeled pear

Chickpeas

Edenami, sushi rice with tofu and egg

Two carab and buckwheat crispbreads

Wednesday:

Rice bubbles w/ soy milk

Lentils, kidney beans w/ spring onions and dressing

Boiled egg

Waffle w/ cream and golden syrup

Two gin and tonics

Two vodka sodas no fruit

Thursday:

No soymilk for cereal

Chicken and leek pie

Two hot soy milks

More chicken and leek pie

Three tubs of diced pears in syrup

Whipped cream

Fried butter beans w/ spring onion, salt and citric acid 

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When I searched for the official definition of a map it was explained as follows. A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, and roads: “a street map.” Alternatively, a map is a representation; usually on a flat surface as of the features of the earth or heavens showing them in their respective forms, sizes and relationships.

However, before any preliminary research I wrote down what I personally considered to be a map. I came to the conclusion a map is a form of information. It is insightful, helpful and also a guide, allowing you to navigate your way through material. A map can aid in a journey and provides direction. A map permits you to see information from alternate perspectives and gain an overview. The information is generally simplified with the use of universal symbols and images making it easier to process and understand. This very broad definition I found applicable to the notion of conceptual mapping, and my own diet map.

My conceptual map is the listing of information related to my diet, including the instructions and what I’ve been eating day to day.

A diet is a map. It can be extremely personal, giving you insight into a person’s life. It can map out a person’s emotions: signified through binge eating or erratic eating; their culture: through the inclusion of different ethnic foods; ones ethical choices: demonstrated via the exclusion of meat or animal products or even the purchasing of free range and sustainable products; ones social obligations: do they eat out a lot; and their life style including income: the budget they spend on food or health.

For me, my diet maps out my current health and allergy situation. I am currently on a trial diet that is designed to eliminate additives, salicylates, amines and glutamates.

 I decided to upload my spoken word listing onto SoundCloud. Listening to music via SoundCloud can provide an oddly visual experience. For example, each track is represented by a waveform with comments layered on top. Comments are tied to specific points in the song, and will be displayed accordingly for future listeners. I hope to encourage people to add to my map with their own ideas.

I believe my map is a map because it provides information as well as a creative interactive way to navigate through that information. 

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Assessment1 DietMAP: Foods with low colour are generally low chemical. 

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Assessment 1 brain storming

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Hi everyone, I hope you are all going well with your assessment task. I am fearfully noticing a large amount of geographical/topographical images popping up across the Tumblrs (ie cut up atlases, other objects made to look like topographical maps etc). Luckily none of these are actual student’s...

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Experimental Documentation

I learnt the importance of documentation in developing ideas and studio practice

Experimenting with marks from a specific site; the adaptation of natural 'marks' into new sculptural markers. Then the documentation of those sculptures through photography.

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Mark Making

I learnt how we can document the found mark & the different forms of that documentation can take

Further developing the marks found and created in the environment through alternate forms of documentation and mark making. 

The creation of marks using pen, ink, collage, watercolour and the incorporation of text. The documentation of the marks using a concertina book.