Creative Work Manuscript
Degeneration
Patana Duangpatra
Department of Digital media communication. Albert Laurence School of Communication Arts, Assumption University
Background or significant of the project Due to the aged society, the increasing of elder whose age more than 60 years old is increasing dramatically every year. (Department of National Statistic) the number of elder is increased from 8,266,304 to 10,014,705 people within 3 years (2554-2557) our country is going to reach the super aged society very soon. That means the number of elderly people will be more than 20% of the entire population. Also, this issue is in the government plan. When the people reach to age of 60 or being elderly person, the most seriuos problem of elder would be degeneration of health and physical body such as wrinkles, hair loss, broken tooth and farsightedness etc. Nothing is sustainable. Everything is changed by the rule of nature. As for this artwork, the artist meets the degeneration that happen with his dad who is 76 years old and try to reform this degeneration in to graphic elements to make awareness to other people. Golden Ratio theory is the perfect size or proportion which is invented from Greek mathematician. In Greek, they believe that Phidias who design Parthenon temple use this theory to design it and believe that Leonardo da Vinci use golden ratio theory in his artwork. The golden ratio size is 1:1618 which everyone believe that is a perfect and beautiful section. Golden ratio number has something that relate and like Fibonacci number (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233 and so on.) which is invented by Leonardo Fibonacci. By dividing the Fibonacci number with previous Fibonacci number, the result would be around 1.618 which is golden section number. it is believed that this theory is use in the nature such as the number of petal and natural shape, so the artist tries to combine this kind of theory with graphic arts and use it in his work.
Project Objective To educate and experiment on the shape that is in golden ratio and use golden circle ratio to simplify the object. 2. To convey the degeneration of aged people in physical context which is simplified 3rd CA CREA TIVE WORK F ACULTY SHOWCASE 2017
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by using golden ratio and to make the awareness to other people 3. To express the anxiety that I have to my dad.
Concept As for my dad health problem and degenerate physical body, it is my inspiration to make this artwork because of natural life, everyone will get old in the future someday. Everything in this world is unsustainable. Everyone must meet this degeneration as usual by someday, so the artist tries to convey the work with his dad half-portrait to show the natural of life. On the other side of my dad portrait will be conveyed by simplified graphic elements and using golden section and golden ratio to make the awareness of physical degeneration in elderly person that the artist present in comparison style.
Process of art or design works
figure 1: entire developing process
figure 2: Basic Shape inside the golden section
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6.1 The working process start when I see my dad body and health which is degenerating every day. 6.2 Finding information about aged society and elder’s problem by reading research, news and articles etc. 6.3 Try to analyze and categorize the information by drawing a relation flowchart. 6.4 Taking a portrait of my father in the studio with 3-point lights and retouch the picture in adobe photoshop. 6.5 Realistic Sketch and experiment on the golden ratio, shape and pattern to simplify my father’s portrait
figure3: golden ratio, shape and pattern which is used for simplifying
6.6 Go away from the artwork for a week. 6.7 Come back to recheck and readjust composition and all the details. 6.8 I found out that my work need some detail, so I decided to add some texture to identify wrinkle and degeneration of my father. 6.8 Print out it into high quality paper and framing.
Material and techniques of art or design works
7.1 Sketch my work in the tablet (Samsung galaxy tab a). 7.2 Shooting my dad portrait with digital camera and 3-point lights at the studio. 7.3 Produce and design in adobe illustrator by using vector and raster images and print into high quality A4 paper. 7.4 Framing with wood.
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Picture of art or design works
figure 4: 100% of artwork
figure 5: Completed Artwork with white wood framing
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Knowledge after finished produce art or design works Everything and every life in this world must meet degeneration in their life. Nothing is forever. Degeneration in physical body will occur when the age reach 60. That is why the artist wants to make awareness by reforming the degeneration of elderly person into graphic elements by using golden section and ratio theory. The artist tries to experiment on the shape such as rectangle, triangle, circle and other patterns in the golden shape and apply it to artwork. By using the theory of golden section and ratio, the artist can conclude that it is one factor that can make your work composition better and consistent. It helps boost the beauty of the work in re-form context. After visual simplifying, I found out that my work need a bit more details, so I decided to add some crumpled paper textures and grain texture in to my work to represent the degeneration and wrinkle. The result turns out good. Adding the texture might be a good technique that can improve the detail of the work. I tried to frame this artwork with black framing which make my art look not outstanding. It is better to use white wood framing to make this artwork feel like a portrait at home and it also make my work looks outstanding more than the black one.
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