This book is a collection of projects that I have created in my second year of studies. You will be able to enjoy my unique approach to the given briefs. Through props making and photography I bring still images to life and through movement I recreate various emotions. The use of 3D approach allows the viewer to engage and interact with my art and experience it with all of the senses.
This studio was designed to explore the past through archive materials in order to discover themes and issues that remain relevant today. Themes explored include: activism, archives and re-enactments.
The aim of this project is to immerse in research relating to specifc acts of activism. For an outcome we were. asked to create body of work that would evoke, commemorate and explain and socially engage through illustration. My focus was on the issue of emotional abuse.
Fear I have created series of prototypes to represent emotions that victims of the emotional abuse go through. This prototype of a forest is a representation of emotions such as fear, loneliness yet hope which is the light coming through the forest. I have used a decorative moss and lolli-
pop sticks to make trees and a modelling clay to keep the set steady. I have placed it in the cardboard box and cut out a small hole in the back that I used to shine the light through. Final step was to take shots with a digital camera and adjust the light accordingly.
Loneliness
In order to recreate a feeling of loneliness, emptiness I created a prototype of a desert. I have only used modelling clay placed on a piece of paper. In order to give it some extra texture I left marks with my fingers and made sure that the surface is not totally smooth. Next step
was to take pictures to make it look like a real life desert. I have taken close up shots with SLR camera while playing around with light making sure that it falls in the certain way so the bumps create shadows. As a background I simply used a white sheet.
Hopeless
I have created a miniature of the sea in the glass jar to recreate emotions of being hopeless and overwhelmed with pain. I have used a decorative moss, modelling clay and acrylic paint to dye the water. After taking a close
up picture of the jar I edited in a picture of a sleeping female to give an impression of someone drowning and being at the bottom of the sea.
Project 2: Archives and Future Places
This projects aims to create a narrative sequence based on imagined exploration of future place in Roman Road 100 years from now. The sequence I have created refers to the biggest civil disaster of World War 2: Bethnal Green Tube Disaster. This tragedy claimed 173 lives which 62 of them were children.
Tower Hamlets Cemetery I have recreated the Tower Hamlets Cemetery as it is the place where the victims of Bethnal Green Disaster were laid to rest. I have used modelling clay, wooden sticks and a decorative moss. I have painted the graves with an acrylic paint to make it look old and look like
it’s covered in moss. I have then placed on one of the graves an alien, who is the messanger bringing one of the child victims back to life. The alien was made using a wire and strings.
Main character
The
main character of the moving image sequence is a child from the future. I have made a doll using wire, modelling clay, wool, fake hair extensions. I have painted on the face with acrylics but I haven’t achieved the outcome I was looking for. I have came up with a solution. After creating an eye with fake eyelashes and an eyelid I have animated it to make
blinking movements. Using both animated eye and a recording of a laughing mouth, I have edited it onto the doll using digital software.
Swing
My initial idea was to create a playground on the cemetery as the main scene. As part of the set I have created a swing using sticks, strings, a chain, cardboard and modelling clay to stabilise it. The biggest challenge was to place the doll on it without her falling off. As a solution I have attached the doll with a string that is the same colour as her cardigan, so it won’t
stand out. In order to make the swing move I have attached very thin string to the front and back and then I was pulling it respectively while recording it on the green screen.
Gerhard Steidl
“Disrespect your own photographs & fuck midtones.”
Visual Proposal
This project is a continuation of the Project 2: Archives and Future Places. The aim is to develop a visual proposal for the possible implementation of my work in real life context.
Projection mapping experimentation
3D visual tour
“Design is not a thing you do, It’s a way of life.”
Alan Fletcher
Creative Industry Practice
This module aims to give work related learning insights through working on projects that reflect real-world situations. Consolidating both disciplinary and creative skills leads to developing professional confidence and navigate individual and collaborative approaches to working within the fields of Illustration and Graphic Design.
Market Ready
Struggless
We have been asked to create a design company and invent a product that would target a specific audience. I have come up with an idea to create an item that would help you remember to unplug your USB drive from behind the stationary computer. The audience would be mainly students. I have createdseries of 3D prototypes to
present visually what the item would look like. I have also designed the packaging for it that would allow you to carry it with you at all times. To create the prototypes I have used digital software and designed the items from scratch.
Microsoft Surface
As part of the project we were asked to create a sequence of images to explain how our experience over Easter resonates with the phrase “we believe in what people make possible�. The message I am communicating is commercialism surrounding Easter celebration and consumerism aspects of it.
“We believe in what people make possible�
Final project
For the final outcome we have been asked to create a short film to bring the message of “infinite creative possibility� to life. The concept is to celebrate captivating storytelling that translates into engagement with Microsoft Surface. As a response I have created an exciting, yet full of unknown, journey which is very dynamic and full of challenges and adventures.
“Infinite creative possibility”
“You can do anything you want to do!”
Kate Moross
Workshops
In the series of workshops we had a chance to use professional equipment and software to enchance our projects and achieve the best effects. Also during the Making a Living Week we had workshops with professionals who introduced us to real life scenarios and requirements of the creative industry.
Projection Mapping
This workshop gave us an insight into projection of an image, either still or moving, on a 3D space. This will open up the possibilities for us to use this technique in our future projects. We have been shown few examples such as “The Ice Book� by Davy & Kristin McGuire (bottom right) and the big scale projection on Sydney Opera House (top right).
Fig Taylor A Persuasive Portfolio
Don’t be afraid of your brains that’s why people want to book you. Just be confident in yourself and your ability.
Talks and Visits
In the series of talks and visits we had a chance to listen to and get advice from people who work in the industry and have years of experience. Also visiting exhibitions we get to have an insight into a journey of artists with life long experience and an amazing body of work.
Gerald Scarfe House of Illustration
“Commercial art is telling lies, and the point of being an artist is that you tell the truth.�
Basquiat: Boom for Real
“I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is”
“Find something you like Practice Show people Repeat”
Joe Prytherch
Critical and Contextual Studies
In this module we are studying the contexts that support the themes and subject of our work. It is essential to understand how my practice communicates when made public. Considering what we communicate is just as important as deciding how we communicate it.
“Photography as a war witness”
“No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one”.
John F. Kennedy
“Photography by its nature is selective. It isolates a single moment, divorcing that moment from the moments before and after that possibly led to adjusted meaning.”
“One photograph can be more influential than hours of television footage”.