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Experiment 3

I had changed my theme of repetition to experimentation and contemplation, I decided to use different materials to create boxes and to make an artwork that would ultimately show the number of things we waste and use in everyday life. I started experimenting with different materials such as candy wrappers, plastic cutlery and paper. 

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Week 12- Class Activity- Chance

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Experiment 2

Moving on from the failure of the first experiment, I added coloured tissue paper inside the box hoping that it’ll change the colour of the surrounding objects. The walls turned purple but it wasn't as pigmented as I thought it would. 

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Assingment three: Experiement One

I originally decided to cut random shapes in the sides of the box and see how the light changes the shape projected. It didn’t work as well as expected. 

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Assessment 3- Ideas

Carrying on from my first assessment with the box, I’ll try to make a 100 different ones of the lantern boxes...

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Week 6- Erasure 

Erasures

Studio group work: exploring how absence (erasure) could effect the big picture

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Repetition 

- Repeating the action of opening and closing a locker a 100 times 

- Repeating screen in documentation 

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W10: Failure

Attempt 4 - traveling through the campus without using our hands.

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W10: Failure

Our group attempted to travel throughout the campus without using our hands i.e. facing obstacles such as opening / closing doors. 

attempt 1

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Week 10- Failure

Combing two objects that can’t exist together. 

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Week 9- Perception 

First image is a painting by Michael Zeno Diemer.

Second photo is from Annie’s instagram. 

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Time Based Project

Our time-based group project was inspired by Kaylee Renkin’s artwork, “Drawing and Textiles Design”. By drawing inspiration from this artwork and to our theme, Contemplation and Experimentation, we tried to show our combined failures in one artwork. 

In the process of experimenting our artwork, we decided to combine our old, rejected work and present them as a segment of each members failures. The final shape of the artwork was created in a shape of a hand where it symbolises our risk of revealing our failed works that were never meant to be shown to the general public. 

We contemplated in the arrangement and placement of each failed work where we ultimately decided to trim and fold up individual artworks. In the end, when we wanted to reveal the time-lapse video we had taken in the making of the work we ended up giving the other students of the class the ability to interact and reveal our failed artworks for themselves. 

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Week 5: Documentation and Editing

Before and After Editing my work through photoshop again

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Transformation: Final

The final product after my experimentations was all by chance where everything I had done was all for the first time.  My first idea was to transform into a lantern with fairy tale cut outs placed into the windows of the box, which would ultimately be able to project the story onto walls. I was inspired by the artists Harikrishnan Panicker & Deepti Nair, Illuminated Paper Cut Shadow Boxes. Their works consisted of depicting famous animated movie scenes that when lit up in the dark, the story was brought to light. I used normal printing paper to create the scene, as paper is simple as a medium but it is able to reflect and contrast light. Towards the end of my experimentations, I had realised that the shadows casted off from the lights were from the cut outs itself, not of random shapes and lines (which I had thought would’ve happened). In the end, I wanted my viewers to be able to journey and imagine themselves in a setting similar to the fairy tale and that the final work will have a strange but playful impression left on them.

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Process to final product

Finished the 2nd cutting for the box and I had transformed the box into something that had resembled a lantern.  

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The first fairy tale paper cutting. I had to change the box because the previous box the hole that I had cut was too big. I used a white LED light to see how it would change the overall colour and look. 

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I decided to change the random shapes and line cutout to scenes from fairy tales or animations. I was inspired by Hari & Deepti’s illuminated cut out paper light boxes.