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AN OVERVIEW OF THE WORK IN IMAGES
EXPERIMENTING WITH THE LAYOUT/DISPLAY OF MY WORK
I forgot to mention in my earlier posts that I experimented with the layout of the higher pieces of work. I tried displaying just the books and the fabric paintings; the individual silver pages and the fabric paintings, but what I think felt best, was the idea of putting everything on display, for I felt like if I did not add the fabric art books it would feel empty as well as the individual pages.
FINAL VIEW OF INSTALLATION OF WORK (Pt.1)
Here are some images from each angle of the final work.
On a side note, I decided to add on some of my previous work from the last critique, but this time I decided to remove the shelves completely for I felt like it just working well with the other work.
(Just an overview of my supporting work)
FINAL WEEK BEFORE ASSESSMENT (WEEK 6):
So with the images above, they are apart of my final work that I will be showing.
These pieces are probably my favourite pieces because they are made up of small paintings of images from back home (Philippines) which were inspired by Jacob Maentz’ photography work. Whenever I look at it, it makes me miss my family members back home. It makes me feel sad also because of how the people that live in Baguio, Philippines are slowly loosing this view and farming atmosphere due to the demolishment of trees and establishment of houses and Philippines being overpopulated.
This thought then brought to me the idea of deforestation. Which also feels like it would work well and show that contrast with my following industrial feel of silver book pieces.
FINAL LAB (PRINT LAB) :
With the end of semester 1 coming up, I also had my final lab to experiment with. In the print lab, I was able to make my own frame to print on.
This is an image of the final outcomes which came out quite nice. (Side note: It’s not my design but an illustrator that I admire.)
Also, if I had more time to experiment with the print lab, I think that the fabric paintings shown above would have been interesting to create into a print and this is something I could consider for next times work.
ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF WORK:
Going back to one of my earlier works, I came back to this weaving work and I took the sticks and spray painted them gold to also show the contrast between traditional/old and industrial/new.
As I was setting up my work, I did not think that it would work alongside the other works, so I decided to make it one of my supporting works instead.
(A short clip of the second hanging book.)
(Short clip of one of the hanging books.)
WEEK 5- SET UP TRIALS
So with the setup of some of the books, I hung them in the spots where I had originally hung the floating book shelf, but this time I made them shelf-less and I stuck the wire to the books.
Also, I decided to hang one of the books as close to the ground as possible but still have a gap between the object and the ground. (By doing this, I feel like it gives it that sense of tension.)
WEEK 5- MORE FINAL OUTCOME DOCUMENTATION (PT. 3 IMAGES)
WEEK 5- WORKING WITH PLASTER AND THE SPRAY BOOTH (PT 2- Outcomes)
Here are some images of the finished spray painted pages and objects.
I really like how they came out and how they look. I like how the objects use to be thin (due to the pages being individuals), but now that I have combined some pages and gave them new forms and colours they now look very solid and futuristic because of the metallic silver spray paint.
WEEK 5- WORKING WITH PLASTER AND THE SPRAY BOOTH (PT 1)
With my plastered objects, I decided to paint majority of them silver and some pieces gold. I think I prefer the silver a lot more than the gold for it felt more industrial like just like with the vents in the studio room. (But I could still try to incorporate the gold somehow if it fits into the work.)
Moreover, I came across an interesting interaction with the some of the plastered objects and the gold spray paint. Some parts of the object did not come out gold but rather silver mixed with gold which looked quite interesting.
With this specific work from Latham, I liked how it seemed like it was one artwork but in fact it was multiple parts of work put into one. Also I liked how the work was put into an animation, showing a variation of coloured pages and slight movements of the book placements.
(In addition, I just wanted to add that I am more interesting in the materials he is using and methods he does rather than the meaning behind it.)
Just a short article about the social, political Issues for the Igorot people.
Here is an additional article I came across while researching. Reading this article, this was one of the pieces that inspired me to only focus on Jacob Maentz’s landscape photographs when I did my fabric painting.
I focused more on Jacob’s natural and naturalistic images, for land was an important part for the Igorot people (alongside other indigenous people) for it was apart of who they are but due to economic poverty, they did not have access to their own land.
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WEEK 4-5 RESEARCH & INSPIRATION
Moving forward, I continued to look for artists that might have looked at incoporating books into their artwork or otherwise using the method of spray-painting their work.
I came across this British artist named John Latham who used spray paint, which opened up new approaches to form. Furthermore, he also incorporates books, which he calls them ‘skoob’ works.
Looking at his work, it made me feel more confident about trying out a new medium. I haven’t used spray paint much in the past but I have been enjoying using it for my work rather than using typical acrylic paint.
Also, I like how he created new things out of the books and by giving them new purposes which makes his work interesting.
With this specific work above, it’s interesting how far away they look like cut up pieces of logs when in reality they are just a group of reformed bark coloured books.
WEEK 5- DEVELOPMENT OF WORK (FROM LAST CRITIQUE)
So after seeing Janet and asking for advice and some suggestions about my previous work, she encouraged me to take my book idea further and I tried taking it to a slightly different direction.
In response to plastering the books shut as well as some of the book pages, she suggested to spray paint them so that they would fit well with the way I had previously installed my work.
I remember getting a comment about the string that I had used that attached the floating shelf to the vent. After hearing that comment, I had learnt that everything you attach your work to or on, it becomes apart of the work which also helped me to understand why the string did not work with the vent. So in response, to Janets suggestion, I used the wet lab to my advantage and I used the spray booth to spray my pieces so they would have the same feel as the silver vents. Reflecting on the outcome, I really liked it and it gave me an industrial feel to the books which is something quite interesting in contrast to my previous landscape paintings.
Igorot Dance - Dances of the Cordillera Mountains/Philippines Traditional Cultural Dance/mountain people/Carassauga 2017 The Igorots share common religious b...
JUST SOME ADDITIONAL RESEARCH ABOUT THE IGOROTS
Another type of pattern (beside fabric patterns) that The Igorot people had was movement patterns. So I came upon this interesting Igorot dancing performance piece.
An article I came upon about Igorot dancing. It was interesting to read that compared to Filipino ethnic dance, Igorot dancing is less structured and is more of a religious act of praise to their household gods. Also the dance within itself is interesting and it felt like a march to me but it also reminded me of Maori dancing but it felt more chant like.
https://dancehistorydevelopment.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/dance-of-the-philippines-the-irogot-people/
I probably would not look further into this but It was still interesting to watch and look into.
As I continued to research for more artists, I came across this textile artist who paints with fabrics which is really interesting. Lisa focuses on thin lines which is something that has recurred in her work which soon became her signature work.
These specific work of hers titled ‘Structures’(the first image) and ‘Living in Colour’ (the second image) is the ones that I liked the most because of the layout of the fabrics. I like how she had but a gap between each piece so there is that slight disocnnection between the pieces which is what Lisa likes to ponder on through her work. She studies the disconnection and barriers in relationships and how they can make an impact.
After looking at Call’s work, I decided to try it with images of my plastered patterns and I wanted to look at the relationship between each piece. I wanted to take her idea and make it my own by cutting the original piece into half and rearranging it with a different plastered object image.
I think it came out quite interesting and I could possibly explore this idea.
Also, I decided to invert the images and make the colours negative just to see if there would be an interesting effect which there was. But I think that some parts of the images where too bright.
WEEK 4-5 EXPERIMENTATION WITH PLASTER AND PAINT
After looking at my previous artwork, I wanted to try working with plaster again. So reflecting on my previous work with books, I decided to plaster some of the pages from the book and pinch them from different places so they all come out differently.
Looking at the outcome, it felt like still fabric to me because of the way the pages were folded. Obviously they’re not as soft as actual fabric but it was interesting to look at.
Furthermore, I reflected on how I could push my work further or experiment further. With my previous art books and paintings, I decided to combine the two and experiment with the relationship between prints. Combining fabric prints, plaster work and book pages.
Though I was working with the Igorot traditional clothing, I wondered about putting the pattern beside other patterns. So I researched and looked for similar looking indigenious patterns to the Igorot clothing like the samoan print, Maori Kowhaiwhai, Hiapo patterns, Indian Hennas and Aboriginal art prints.
It was interesting looking at them all side by side and I could see how there were similarities between them such as linear patterns, warm tones like brown and red and black outlines (though some are stronger than others.) Saying this, there are still differences between the patterns such as the layouts, the shapes but the difference that stood out the most was the Aboriginal piece where they work with dots, circular and curvy layouts.
LINKS TO RESEARCH:
Niuean Hiapo- The Hiapo is a tapa cloth that is made out of bark of the paper mulberry tree and is a form of decorated barkcloth from Niue.
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/hiapo-tapa-cloth/OgH6BLqgYaZQaA?hl=en-GB
Aboriginal art- (though this is not exactly a print, I still found the Aborigine’s work interesting and beautiful.) The Aborginie’s work was used to send their important cultural stories through the generations due to the fact that there was no written language for Australian Aboriginal People.
https://www.aboriginal-art-australia.com/aboriginal-art-library/the-story-of-aboriginal-art/
Maori Kowhaiwhai- Kowhaiwhai are Maori motifs that are often used to represent New Zealand through art, advertising and design. Kowhaiwhai was also designed for the iwis’ (tribes’) meeting houses to show what tribe the house belonged to.
(This was interesting for this reminded me of Coridillera’s traditional clothing and how each design/ pattern of clothing was for a specific tribe also.)
http://intranet.pointview.school.nz/Maori_art/Kowhaiwhai.html
Indian Henna- For the Henna, it was used as body art and hair dye rather than for paintings (and this was also used by the Egyptians for body art as well.)
https://www.fragrancex.com/fragrance-information/the-art-and-history-of-henna-as-bodyart.html
To add onto this research, I also realised that these countries all share the fact that they have all been colonised.
Philippines was colonised by the Spanish people; The Indians were colonised by the Europeans, Where as the Maori, Aborigines, Niuean were colonised by the British (and Europeans) and Samoa was a British Colony but was also shared with Germany and the U.S.
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/niue/history
https://teara.govt.nz/en/pacific-islands-and-new-zealand/page-4
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/history-of-new-zealand-1769-1914
https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/Convicts_and_the_Colonisation_of_Australia,_1788-1868
This is possibly something I could look further into for my next work.