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Assessment Three: Group Publication - NOW
The finished work is self-referential and aware of creative process. The text and images on each slide allude to the process we undertook in creating the publication. With context, the audience is able to visually and aurally follow our creative journey - following the uncertainty and difference of opinion; to agreement on concept and excitement of creation; to reflection and divergence nearing the end of our work.
Assessment Three: Group Publication - NOW
My delegated task was the text element of our publication. For the majority of this assignment, I felt pretty useless as a team member. I’m utterly hopeless with technology, and this style of refined digital work is pretty much the polar opposite of what I’m good at. However, my group managed to weed out and rekindle my love of Year 12 English and things got weird (like they do). As my group suggested, I aimed for a poetic flow, and added in keywords from our Group Narrative brainstorm to give the words greater meaning.
Assessment Three: Group Publication - NOW
Bradley’s late nights caught up with him!
Words/themes collectively associated with our concept:
“ - poem, or statements, about our creation of the publication, with research words included. This relates our moment of 'NOW' to be the actual display of the publication.” - Synchronous / Synchronicity - Architecture - Entities - Converging energy - Chemistry - Molecular structure - Divergence - Convergence - Meditation - Time - Light and dark (Shadows) - Neurones (as in brain paths) - Lens, Images, paintings, sculpture (capturing a moment in time) - Wondering - Colluding - Drifting - Difference - Focused - Blurred - Exploding - Gathering - Defining - Searching - Capture - Freeze - Opinion - Possibilities - Together - Truth - Fact - Thoughts - Goals - Coincidence - Illusion - Attraction - Manifestation - Solutions - Strategy - Innovation - Invent
Assessment Three: Group Publication - NOW
Based on our artistic strengths, we delegated tasks for one another, but encouraged and helped each other throughout our individual contributions.
Piers took the raw images of the glass, Bradley edited the images in photoshop, D created the title and I played around with text.
Teamwork, yeah!
Assessment Three: Group Publication - NOW
The guys’ way of sharing images to keep us all updated throughout the editing process. I definitely had to sit back and watch this one. Photoshop - I’m hopeless!
Assessment Three: Group Publication - NOW
Collaborative projects are difficult at the best of times - especially when you only have three contact hours per week with your group. Luckily, its the twenty-first century and we have the internet! Aside from the minimal advancements in class, our group has predominantly created our publication via online correspondence, through our Facebook group, Google Docs and Messenger. Pictured above is our ‘Group Narrative’, a handy document that Bradley whipped up for us to brainstorm keywords for the text element of our work.
Our ability to create together, when we’re not physically together. So many different avenues in collaboration...
Assessment Three: Group Publication - NOW
Our group has created a Facebook Page to share our ideas, as well as a flexible Google Doc to remotely create and change our publication from home.
// a few snippets of the kind of info/thoughts we share together...
Class Activity - In small groups, create a set of instructions - a list, recipe, poem etc - for the group on your right to use as inspiration for a work.
“Pretzel
Looping limbs, Breaking arms, Into chains. Twisting, turning, Twirling, swirling. Transform.”
Our resulting work had to liken a publication, to practise for the assessment we’re working on, and including a refined presentation. This is what our group created from the poem we received...
Assessment Two: Major Project - Polymonde
Concept Statement
At the beginning of my research for Assessment One, I became fixated on the environmental theme of the first question. Having moved from the country, my current environment is having a profound effect on my art-making and my persona as a whole. I’m constantly surrounded by people and I am subsequently more aware of the byproducts of condensed human colonisation. How is it that, with a population of 4.2 million people in Sydney alone, we are not wallowing in our own filth? We are not confronted with colossal pollution and environmental downfall on a day-to-day basis? The answer is that we are - we’re just ignorant and/or oblivious.
In order to further explore manmade/natural relationships, I combined research and visual inspiration with extensive experimentation. This project was initially material focused, and the concept was developed through my experiments. Initially, my experiments consisted of creating shapes or ‘drawings’ from hot glue, in the form of crumpled water bottles. It had hit a dead end and I was getting bored, when David Attenborough’s The Blue Planet came on television, airing an episode on Creatures of the Deep. After it was over, I downloaded series after series and watched, while creating, bewildered by the vast creatures of this planet - namely: sea urchins, starfish and molluscs.
From the experimentation linked to the first assessment, I knew I wanted to carry on with plastic - a material I hadn’t really worked with before. The choice of plastic as my material was the soul driving force of this project. In connection to the environment, I wanted to source materials from the world around Plastic, as a result of pollution, can be found relatively anywhere, and with a quick trip to Bondi Beach, I had more than a bag full to play with - soft-drink bottles, food containers, lids. I went home again and pondered. I wanted my objects so be ambiguous, and ambiguous is hardly the word for an overtly obvious Coca-Cola bottle - wrapper and all. So the questions arose - how do I re-shape the plastic? Do I want to create a sculpture or something flat? How can I best answer the question?
I concluded to melt the found plastics into predominantly unrecognisable blobs, and after that, the process was an excited blur. I sat at my desk with my plastics and hot glue, while watching David Attenborough’s nature documentaries. As I felt inspired, i just ‘did’ - the forms seemed to come together themselves, and I was just their creational tool. At the time, I had no idea what I was doing, as if my brain worked vicariously with my hands but not telling me why - until it came near the end. I connected the dots (that I’d somehow created) and realised what I’d made and what they stood for.
The series manipulates plastic to embody forms likened to sea creatures. I was inspired to create this aesthetic change to pay tribute to the versatility of the environment when, recently, specific rocks made from plastics were officially recognised as geological structures. The ability of the environment to absorb a slow-degrading, man-made material and still prevail to create its own ‘natural’ form - amazed me. From this, I entitled the collective work, Polymonde - a play on the common plastic pre-fix ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’ and ‘monde’, french for ‘form’.
This series of constructed objects is the visual culmination of ideas around pollution, human ignorance and natural perseverance. These objects symbolise poignant aspects of modern day pollution - in a literal sense, the materials are genuine pollutants collected locally. Metaphorically, the manipulated natural ‘disguise’ of the plastic forms reflects our ability to overlook trash in our environment, much like ignorance surrounding issues such as pollution and global warming, dominant themes tied to assessment question one.
Artistic References - 1. Ruth Wallen: http://www.ruthwallen.net 2. Aurora Robson: http://www.aurorarobson.com 3. David Attenborough: Sea Life, 2009
Chosen Question
#1: Art and design often explore relationships between humans and non-humans, the environment and ecology. How can contemporary art and design propose new possibilities for imagining the ‘human’ and the environment?
Assessment Two: Major Project // Resin Experiments
More resin fun from last week! Playing with colours and dyes!
Assessment Two: Major Project - Experimenting // collection
My little collection of sculptures so far. I’m really enjoying the process of making these - making separate things and finding fun and interesting ways of fitting them together. I particularly like the obscurity of the objects; the only purely recognisable plastics are the bottles, distinguished by their caps, which were too thick to melt completely on the stove. I like the idea of the audience knowing the origin of the materials, but not precisely what use they had before.
Still not sure how it’s going to be come assessment, still playing with layouts etc.
Assessment Two: Major Project - Experimenting This has actually become really therapeutic!
Assessment Two: Major Project - Experimenting // resin remains
Experimenting with different combinations. These little ‘experimental objects’ have started to liken bottom-floor sea creatures, which I really love. Aided by the green-tint I mixed into the resin, they look almost plucked off the sand.. Just letting go and getting freaky with it.
Assessment Two: Major Project - Experimenting // materials
I’ve got lots of cool things on my desk to play with! Earbud creations, shaped resin, glue gun patterns and styrofoam balls. Now to play with compositions!