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Shadow art: Starry night

(Shadow cast against projector)

This in class work speaks to me as an act of chance in the spontaneous action that created it. With no more than an idea of projecting the shadows of chairs our group came together without speaking to create this beautiful silhouette. We did not organise the arrangement but it rather grew as people took the gestures of others as inspiration. This work taught me the value of the 'happy accident' and the beauty of the group improvisation.

Three Standard Stoppages: Ten Repeats.

(Black, blue and turquoise ink dropped from 1m lengths on watercolour paper)

Taking inspiration form both Marcel Duchamp’s “Three Standard Stoppages” and our in class exercise on using a tool the wrong way, I created this work. It was completed by taking three lengths of wool of one metre. Each stand was placed in a different colour of ink and dropped on the paper. I believe the larger scale and use of many colours of ink improve this chance artwork from the original class work, seen here:http://cofaclasses1001.tumblr.com/post/51071115479/chance-using-a-tool-how-it-is-not-meant-to-be

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ColourBomb: Galaxy

(Video of the marking of an artwork- Diluted ink ejected from pierced balloons on A1 watercolour paper)

In this work (a second revision of a prior experiment) chance has been successfully employed through the control of materials. Here only the choice of a colour scheme (blue, turquoise, black and red) was controlled while the image itself was entirely unplanned. I have chosen to upload the video documentation as I feel it best shows the erratic and evolving nature of artworks made through the method of chance, and how something with seemingly infinite depth (like our galaxy) can evolve from nothing.

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Assessment 3: Experiments in Chance

Throughout the semester we have undergone many tasks experimenting with our art making practice. With this in mind, the ‘lightbulb’ moments for me, and the pieces that stood out to me the most, were those that incorporated the element of chance. I have found that when the artist leaves at least part of the art making to chance something interesting happens. It can be a small amount of the aesthetic or the entire piece but, with chance, the artwork takes on a spontaneity that cannot be replicated on purpose. One of the aspects of chance I like the most is their inability to be replicated- when one tries it looses the surprise of the original.

All of the following ten pieces of documentation explore the method of chance in its varying forms. Some pieces combine chance with other explored ideas such as transient art, art made over time and destructive art.

I would asked that these works be viewed in the order they are presented (i.e top of the first page, to bottom of the last page) as there are elements of evolution within the curation of the images.

Thank you.

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Automatic Music Drawing: Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd

(graphite on A4 paper)

This image represents the first stage in an automatic artwork experiments conducted by me under the influence of various pieces of music which were inspired by an in class guided meditation task. To create the works I would close my eyes, places the tip of the pencil to the page and play the song, allowing my hand to move unconsciously to its rhythm. When the song ended, so did the drawing. The result was a serious of abstract, flowing sketches like this one, differing in their aesthetic depending on the type of song. This song, "comfortably numb" has deep and psychedelic elements that I feel are represented in the pieces flowing lines.

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Colourbomb: Galaxy

Ink on A1 paper

This work, a revision of the previous Colourbomb video (http://cofaclasses1001.tumblr.com/post/52049694167/colourbomb-a-chance-artwork-on-used-paper-upon) has been improved upon by using thicker (watercolour) paper and a smaller selection of inks (rather than diluted paint) in blue, turquoise, red and black. These new material blended with a more attractive visual quality than the paints which you can see in the video.

Sleep Map: Two Nights Sleep.

(Charcoal on wrinkled A1 carbon paper)

This final sleep map is the third revision of a sleep map from my second assessment. The maps are made from my movement as i sleep, creating wrinkles which are emphasised with charcoal. I believe this to be the best incarnation of the concept due to the comparison of two nights and the larger scale combined with the minimal black and white composition.

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Three Standard Stoppages: Ten Repeats.

Taking inspiration form both Marcel Duchamp's "Three Standard Stoppages" and our in class exercise on using a tool the wrong way, I created this work. It was completed by taking three lengths of wool of one metre. Each stand was placed in a different colour of ink and dropped on the paper. I believe the larger scale and use of many colours of ink improve this chance artwork from the original class work, seen here:http://cofaclasses1001.tumblr.com/post/51071115479/chance-using-a-tool-how-it-is-not-meant-to-be

Sleep Map.

charcoal on wrinkled A1 carbon paper.

This work maps the movement of the sleeper over a night. It was created by laying the a1 sheet of paper between the mattress and the bedsheets. In the morning the crinkled and torn paper was removed and rubbed with charcoal to highlight the crinkles created. If you look closely you can see the sleepers main position- face down, leg outstretched, imprinted into the sheet. Can you find it?

Hand Emotions Diptych

(Long exposure photographic diptych)

This piece draws upon my imagined 'world without facial expressions' from the second assignment and the candle-lit long exposure photography of Paul Schneggenburger The Sleep of the Beloved. In this work I have captured the opposing expression of my hands. The left: friendliness and anger. The right: impressed and unimpressed. Both works incorporate the element of chance due to the uncontrolled nature of capturing a photograph of movement over a long exposure.

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A Chance Artwork: Tape

To create tis work i would rip a piece of painters tape of a random length and drop it on the page. Where it fell i would slap it down to create a line that would be left unmarked by the red ink.

Water Drawing: Marilyn

(Evaporated water on A4 paper)

This final image of the previous video displays the chance image that is left of a temporal artwork. Here the water sketch has dried, leaving a vague crinkle in the page and losing detail of the original sketch. Despite this loss a simple beauty is gained in all that remains being the permanent image.

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Water Drawing: Marilyn

(Video of the creation and evaporation of an artwork. Water on A4 paper)

Inspired by the idea of temporal art and Oscar Muñoz 2003 work , “Re/trato”. I decided to do a simple line drawing in water of Marilyn Monroe and allow it to dry. The temporal nature of this portrait relates to lives of celebrities like Marilyn that end too soon.

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Automatic Music Drawings.

Now colorised in a pallet that fits each song.

1-Comfortably Numb.

2- Welcome To My Nightmare.

3- Life On Mars

4-Nightmare.

You Can’t Handle The Truth.

Created for my second assessment this simple gif animation explored our concept of a world without facial expressions. However in making it is also explored the element of chance in the uncontrolled blending of the face.

Automatic drawing: Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd.

Doing some digital refinement of the original sketched. I like this change (an invert of the original( the changed colours softens the image in an appealing way. It now reminds me of a neuron of the brain or a though tangled and flowing through the mind. I think I will have to re-shoot the sketch to avoid the flash highlight in the lower left corner which is annoying me.

ColourBomb: A chance artwork on used paper.

Upon considering the use of detritus and materials in "the wrong way" I came up with this work. I filled water balloons with diluted paint and after they refused to explode on impact, decided to pop them off camera producing a surrealist splash of colour.

I can't say the piece worked exactly as planned and i think this is largely due to the paint being too diluted and the paper not strong enough to retain the colour. It would have been nice to have a vivid abstract image at the end. Perhaps I will try again with less diluted paint or use ink instead.

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