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Friday 28th May  At Lunch we had a zoom lecture with Shabra Nayar, a design graduate who makes beautiful lantana cane elephants. In the Artis Mundi exhibition, all of Prabhakars work was surreal and distorted, with the exception of one oil painting of a realistic indian elephant. After the talk today I was thinking about what it could represent and what a powerful symbol elephants are. Pachputes elephant was the first one you saw in a series of oil paintings, the rest denoting farmers and labourers in harsh, brash colours and distorted positions. I think maybe the lone, perfect jungle-book-esque Elephant stands as a symbol for what people see rural India to be from the outside, this place thats free and wild. The naturalistic elephant was a stark contrast to the rest of the images in his work, and is a jarring statement of - no thats not reality, reality is much more surreal, much harsher and much more sinister.  Just some tired musings about elephants really. 

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Thursday 27th May-p4 Documenting the process- dremel carving

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Friday 28th March -p3
Worked with Marc on getting the right movement on the charred men. 
Whilst the locking leg mech works well for large movements, I think I will have to loosen up the knee joints on these as when they were all strung together they moved quite rigidly. Whilst this would work to make them look like marching drones, I do like the free and loose movements of the first man I made. I took some time after lunch to finish Dremel carving the remaining figures as it was nice to do something practical whilst I did some thinking about the direction that we are going with our piece.
-Did some sampling to see how the MDF would burn.
-Began CADding up the pithead structure.

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Thursday 27th -p2

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Thursday 27th May -p1
I’m feeling much better about where we are in the project today. 
I showed Lucy the “charred men” mock ups that I laser cut last night and whilst I think there is something in the flatness and simplicity of them, I agree that my first “charred man” was much more of Prabhakar’s artistic language. 
Earlier in the week I had a go at using a dremel to shape my laser cut locking legs and it turned out nicely so I’ve decided that that’s the finish that I would like to sample for the charred men and see if it looks better. 
I spent the morning assembling the puppets because I want to figure out the mechanism before I consider the finish of them too much.

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Wednesday 26th May

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Wednesday 26th May

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Wednesday 26th May Developing horse head (see previous post for details)

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Wednesday 26th May

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Tuesday 25th May 1:25 Scale model of Pit head structure  Photoshop rendition of plan.

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Tuesday 25th May

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Monday 24th  Plans for Structure

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Monday 24th May

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Friday 21st May  Current story board for narrative of the piece: 1) Catching the canary - Silk Canary (1 puppeteer) - Caught canary (1 puppeteer) 2) Cart pushers - Ball headed man (x3) (1 puppeteer per puppet- three puppeteers total) 3) Walking canary man -Respirator headed man (2 puppeteers - one on head, one on flatbed) - potentially someone pulling the flatbed along?- tbc in rehearsals 4) Hammerheads working-Hammerheads (x4) (1 puppeteer holds two puppets- two puppeteers total) 5) Pit Pony Pulling coal dram -Pit Pony Dram (1 puppeteer) - potentially someone pushing back of cart if its too heavy? Tbc next week once cart is contructed 6) Opening the door -Doorman puppet (1 puppeteer) ( need another person to remove arm and attach door) -Charred men (1 puppeteer) 7) Palette man cross -Pallet man (2 puppeteers *Also will need someone to turn the wheel on the pithead structure *14 puppets total / 1 constructed set piece

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Friday 21st May - Design Sign Off  Compiled a presentation using all the current designs in order for our sign off.  Next step is to resolve the canary, feedback is that the new design is too abstract and will be confusing. Potentially need two canaries

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Thursday 20th May The image that stood out to me the most at the exhibition today was the giant yellow fabric cross. It just so clearly said canary to me. I talked this through with Amy and together we assembled a mock up, more interpretive canary- although we didn’t have any yellow silk so settled on the lightest fabric we could find for the mock up

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Thursday 20th May