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Final composition

I started out with materials that came from the earth and in the end after many different experiments with these materials it started to do what I had originally wanted and return to rubble and dust nearly back to its natural state before it was art pieces

I’m happy with my end result as I think I made great use of the material and used a good simple idea for form that really let me pull prowed and pick at my original materials

Overall I’d love to keep going with this and even make more sculptures from a mass collective of my scree that began to form

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Experiments from this week

I wanted to mess around with texture and other ways to combine the materials I had previously used as well as I hated the mold going to waste so decided to use a leather puncher to make it in to a wearable piece

Quite happy with how these experiments played out

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Artist inspo

Personal

These are some artist that I’ve looked into and have taken intrest in some of thier art but I wouldn’t say they are big inspiration in my project but they are some good artist to know.

Magdelena Abakanawitz

Anthony Gormely

Alberto Giacometti

Nicola Hicks

These artist have all had parts that I really find enjoyable and did think about for my project and I still and especially the composition and the quantity of some of these artist .

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Thomas Houseago

His inspiration to my project

Bio

Thomas Houseago brings a vanguard approach to sculpture’s original subject, the human body. Utilizing mediums associated with classical and modernist sculpture—such as carved wood, clay, plaster, and bronze—as well as less traditional materials like rebar and hemp, Houseago builds monumental figures rife with the traces of their making. Body parts rendered from flat portions of wood adjoin others sculpted in the round to create an interplay between two- and three-dimensional elements. His bulky-shouldered figures replace the grace of their serpentine contrapposto stance with awkward contortions of piecemeal appendages. Crouched and stilted on thick limbs, these reductive interpretations convey a striking sense of weight and anatomical structure. By tapping into the nuanced legibility of the human form, Houseago’s figures oscillate between states of power and of vulnerability.

Personal

With this artist I don’t actually like or feel inspired by the form of his sculptures but I’m in love with the textures and the materials and how they interact with the room around them aswell and I think that’s all the inspiration I take from this but it still helps with material explorations for me.

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Mark Mandors

his influence on my project

BIO

Before Manders embarked on his artistic career, he worked, as a teenager, in a graphic design studio. This is where his fascination for design and language, and particularly poetry, originated. Attempting to write a self-portrait in an unconventional manner, he soon hit the boundaries of language and translation. Words were substituted by visual elements. According to Manders, drawings, sculptures and installations are freer and can, just like poetry, incorporate different sounds, colours, rhythms, rhymes and interpretations. This is how the idea of Self-Portrait as a Buildingarose. Manders strives for timelessness and universality by using archetypal forms and familiar-looking materials such as clay, steel and wood. Manders’ sculptures and installations seem more fragile than they actually are. As a sculptor, Manders adheres to the tradition of bronze sculpture yet also incorporates contemporary materials in his work. Seats, chairs, chimneys are carefully created or recreated in function of the work and, where necessary, reduced to 88% of their original size. Blurring the line between reality and illusion, it often becomes difficult to distinguish when Manders is actually integrating natural wood or just a painted wood imitation. This also applies to the androgynous figures or faces that seem to have been fashioned out of wet clay, creating the impression that they just left the artist's studio or, conversely, were abandoned by the artist, mid-work. The illusion of peeling dry clay creates a sense of foreboding, as if the sculpture could crumble into fine dust and disappear at any time. There appears to be a definite separation between the sculpture and the person who realized it, as if it was abandoned by its creator or could not be completed. The persona of Mark Manders is never recognizably evidenced. Remarkable also is the dichotomy between the man Mark Manders and the artist, who, like an alter ego of sorts, seems to be directed entirely by his counterpart. Manders always places himself in this undefined place in-between, vastly enlarging the mystery of Self-Portrait as a Building.

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This artist is one of many to inspire my project because I liked that he used the form of people not to portray any type of hidden meaning and only to show the ways the medium acts and how it looks when a more familiar form that you see daily with these material reactions makes you feel even when the forms have little to no personality, I also love how he leaves them have such a monotone composition as this is more of a material experience than anything else . I would love to take more of the simplistic aspects from this inspiration such as the open drab space but I also think I need to continuously change my project.

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After this I got the idea in which I wanted to head. The bodies I had created were by no means creepy or intimidating or really held much impact but I realised while creating more of them that the quantity made me feel weird in an uncertain way that intrigued me so I asked the technitions if I could make molds of all of them but sadly only one of them was small enough to make a mold of it so I began by making that and creating a few more by hand but I don’t wanna stop here I’d like to keep casting and creating to make the room crowded

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At this piont I was starting to realise that my project so far was starting to look like a scene almost but I knew this wasn’t what I wanted it to be so I decided I will photograph it as a scene and by themselves before moving into my next step

I’m in love with how these came out and love how they looked together when it was completely unplanned

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After my exploration of materials being so successful I moved on to the idea of form and even tried different techniques on how to create these forms liek armitures as a posed to filling

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Week 1 of “make something”

I decided to use more earthy materials for my project really focusing on the idea of natural so I used chicken wire and Berlap as the base of my clay project

Now I was sick for the first week so I had to make as many sculptural experiments as I could in a short period of time.

And this made me realise I was really enjoying these materials and wanted to try some more forms

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This week we had to make dolls of ourselves and I decided for mine to be made of metal as it’s a material that feels the most me and made a doodle version of a little guy which is exactly what I wanted I think it looks so cute but so fun this was inspired by many different artist that I’ll post

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One day brief

For Tuesday we where given a brief that was just for the day and it was how your body interacts with lsad so I immediately went for light and how rooms are really different all just to do with lighting and at first I was gonna make a map with light boxes showing my course of the college but I thought that was quite lifeless but I still liked the idea of light so I focused on one area that I felt played with light in a fun way , the smoking area with its marquee and with the light playing with smoke and such . I played with how interesting it was as an outside area to be so dark and not well lit

Then after this I played with still the use of light in side the marquee and how it kinda boxed in the smoke that bounced from light and by doing this it gave me these beautiful images and patterns that where a happy accident

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SO INCREDIBLY UNCOMFORTABLE

We where tasked to use our five objects each to create quite obscure sculptural pieces

At first I found it quite hard to see them as one whole sculpture rather than decorating the body which was proving difficult for me to understand

But here are some of the outcomes I think that actually achieved that as we had many that didn’t

In all of these I’m extremely embarrassed

I think it only really started getting intresting as we started to think of our self’s as objects but that process involved shedding a lot out Personal embarrassment

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Taking inspiration from previous artist research i looked back on my work and saw a piece that i thought had more to give, the idea of going through life looking at people to hear them as if languge was a sheet the spoke through was a big part of this now orginally i did a plastic wrap of my own face cast to give this idea life.

but on reflection i realised in this so mch more could be done as if you dont see the person as well or you become strained lip reading and going of facail expressions can become much harder and as this progresses you become more and more strained from frustration and embarassment so the immage becomes less clear so i used photoshop to take some away

then from here i used print to show all the different aspects surrounding the interaction in colour yet not replenashing the ink to show how it fades out as you try to understand

i think this really conveys the confusion that this causes and if i wear to do it again id like to do it on a bigger scale

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artist research: Rook Floro

rook floro uses a type of shadow art of the body mostly as a form of deep exploration of the self .Each project is represented by my various alter egos named Flux, Corvus, Blastard, and Alpha/Omega. There are many more yet to be explored. They are tools which I use to talk about different topics through my art practice, they each have their own theme, aesthetics, and personality.

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with these pieces i wanted to show the way that sign language almost works as hears and mouths do for enbable bodied people and how the body is so fluid other organs can learn to substitute for what youre lacking

i did also want this to feel uncomfortable to the eye as a life of using bodies to communicate isn't easy and by far is not comfortable for most

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Artist Research: Sarah sitkin

sarah sitkin uses many different forms of media to create these beautifully grotesqe pieces incapsulating how hideously gorgeous humans are and using the form of the body to show this. by squeing the proportions and shapes and placements she can make her work very interesting yet incredibely disgusting. and this type of work is what lead me to my next pieces of exploration

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so after this i made quite a few molds of my intials in sign language which really brought me back to being a young child with my first hearing aids having to learn how to spell my name as the first part of learning sign and i think it turned out gorgeous and really explores the only language made only with body movements. if i were to do this again and had more time id of made many cast of my hands moving through the motions of speaking in sign langauge but i feel for now stand alone letters work for my idea and leads me onto much more .