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.
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.
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