Studio Individual Development Semester 2

Saving paper by posting all Work in Progress photos, documentation, inspiration and research online

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Building the Shirley installation, and the final Installation Hero Photo

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The layout of source materials from Jenny, Myself, and Will.

Discussing and deciding what to use, where to start.

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Video Performance of the Installation

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Live Artist Presentation 4 set up and aftermath.

Devoured.

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Jessica Stockholder - inspiration for The Shirley Project

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More experiments for Live Artist Presentation 4. Wanting to extend on the last presentation the Caramello Koala sealed the concept!

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SQUISHY!

Testing out whether or not i could make a large pocket with fake looking blood for people to stand on.

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10 Experiments for Live Artist PResentation 4

- Using Roses from Presentation 3 that have now dried as part of a memory based installation of the event

- Gilting nails and rose petals. Transforming damaged items into something valuable

- Implying violence with hand paint marks and nails where the fingers are.

- Pushing the abstraction techniques from Presentation 2 into this presentation. It didnt quite work, but I think the half circle half abstract swirl has something in it.

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Pulling the installation apart and making pretty new arrangements with the pierced petals. I like that how over the 2 hours of going to get lunch and listening to the rest of the presentations, the rose petals began to whither on the wall. I wish I could have left them there for a week to dry out completely and then take more photos of, like I did with the white roses of my initial tests.

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Final Presentation for Live Artist Presentation 3.

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Live Artist Presentation 3 Installation setup. over 3 house before class.

408 Rose petals individually nailed over 17 rows to the projected image of the bunch of flowers from Presentation 2. I used 2 bunches of roses, dark red and purple.

Exploring the themes of deconstructed femininity on display, violence and separation, contrast and juxtaposition.

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10 Tests for Presentation 3 for Live Artist.

Deconstructing decomposing flowers from Presentation 2 and Studio Methods Home Mapping project.

As soon as I started nailing the roses to the wall I knew I had a solid idea to pursue.

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Live Artist Presentation 2 Final Installation

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Experimenting with dipping white roses in paint and soaking them in ink so that they would turn black, and decayed looking from the inside

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Playing with a purely abstract emotional response to the picture to the crystalised photo of the bunch of flowers.

I also experimented with masking fluid, which is the yellow drips. I was going to paint over the top, and then pull the mashing fluid off, but Robin advised me not to.

I’d like to push this concept further and paint in abstract reaction to the female body. which I think I can see shapes of in this painting.

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Logical Response to the crystalised flowers. This was me painting in the layers from the most simple image to the most complex image.

What I found interesting, that I didn't anticipate is that I would have to make decisions about which shapes to leave out, in order for the background shapes to show through. Granted, I was rushing this painting over a week and used very thick paint, but I would like to try this again over a few months and do really light, transparent layers to see if I can get a similar yet different effect. I would also like to have pushed this a bit further, but Robin told me to leave it, so maybe I’ll have to try it again.

I have already put down the base layer on another canvas for this process to happen but I think it will have to wait until the holidays.

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Trying to incorporate my design knowledge into my practice, without thinking it's holding me back for being over analytical, I took a photo of a bunch of flowers that I've had saved in my ‘to paint’ file on my computer for a few years now, and used some photoshop filters to crystalise the photo down. I spent about 2 hours and came up with about 50 different variations. But these were my favourite in the progression of reduction. I am going to use these to respond to for Presentation 2 for the live artist project.