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ICEBREAKER project

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1-xIO6LLF8Vb1dfUDBVY29MUTA/view

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ART OF COMPOSITION 

STILLS FROM VIDEO OUTCOME

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WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE

GIF

ENTOMOLOGY AND FOLKLORE

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COMPOSITIONAL AESTHETICS 

AWKWARD

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COMPOSITIONAL AESTHETICS

INTENSITY

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COMPOSITION OF AESTHETICS 

MOVEMENT through photography

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COMPOSITION AESTHETICS

movement through a drawing 

playing around with motion into my drawings 

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GIF 2

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Gif 1 

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ART OF COMPOSITION. 

This was my outcome for this project. I experimented with making short gifs using 3 images repeatingly. I then recorded on my phone sounds by scratching on bark and splashing water and combined all of this to a video I shot of some friends dancing in front of a projection. The beggining of the video shows a friend who is Bulgarian giving a palm reading. I chose to do a personal archive project and video because i’m really interested in old pagan beliefs and spirituality, but also every cultures approach to rituals, music and dance. 

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More examples of some outcomes from the photograph given to me. The first one is a biro drawing and the second is a photoshop edit.  

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Ghost Cemetery

Photoshop image.

This was my first attempt at using Photoshop for the first time, and this was the outcome. I combined two layers to create a ghostly collage effect. I think if I practised with photoshop more I could refine this and make it much better but it was a fun experience using the software and this image and giving it an interesting narrative of a ghostly theme. 

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Edit 2.a

As the couple were originally squinting it was hard for me to draw their faces in detail and so when I came to edit I did a radial zoom and found that on the left corner next to the man’s face you can almost make out a skull from this zoom effect. I really liked this transformation and the new details emerging. You can still grasp their fatial expressions, especially the man smiling.

Edit 2.b

I included a deeper tone to the photo to enhance the skull head.

photography​

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1. The Original Photograph.

My idea is to manipulate and edit this image on Photoshop in many ways as a starting point to this drawing project brief. So far I have listed some key points about this picture, such as time, place ad history to get a visual concept and idea to work from.

From observing closely I can see that the couple are in an outdoor church setting on a sunny day as they are slightly squinting. They both are wearing button hole white flowers which brings me to believe they are at a wedding. From their style of garments and the dead animal fur that the woman is holding to her right, I would say that this was set in the 40’s or 50’s.

The Graveyard = death + a marriage = a new life!

This is the idea concept that I finally came up with to work around with in both photoshop and drawings.

Edit 1.

A darker version to look more old and forgotten with dirt and scratches. You can not see this time what she is holding very clearly but I think it makes it a bit more mysterious as the animal and the background are both pitch black to represent an abyss.

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“Insects For Angels”

-Graphite HB and 6B on Watercolour paper, Size A4.

- I completed this drawings for Part 2 of project: When Worlds Collide.

I chose from two lists the words, Entomology and folklore. The drawing features a Saint’s Halo and a woman looking up towards heaven. She is holding a skull because she is afraid of death and descending downwards hence the upwards gaze. The woman on the right has an insect-like body with a beetle head dress symbolising the woman on the left her fears, sins and weaknesses. This is because it is believed certain insects hold a symbollic representation in many religious beliefs for example, The Egyptians believed the Scarab beetle was sacred and represented immortality. The skull has a candle that is lit and slowly burning out representing the woman’s fear of death. 

The idea of immortality and death came to me when I visited the British Museum’s exhibition on the Scythians. These were a group of Nomadic people who buried and prepared the dead with essentials like gold and clothes and even their horses to prepare them for the afterlife.