Zuzanna Mróz

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toolmaking painting timelapse (part 4)

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toolmaking painting timelapse (part 3)

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toolmaking painting timelapse (part 2)

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Toolmaking workshop yesterday with @eoinmclsad. I firstly gathered materials from around the college to make a large 'social distancing' paintbrush. I found a wooden stick from another studio, string from the corridor outside of the computer lab, a peer's masking tape, and i made do with that. I constructed the paintbrush by simply sticking the string that i found to the stick with the tape. Me and my friend @k00282924 decided to work on a number of large paper pages to make a big canvas with our tools. We chose to do paintings of what we thought would relate to our projects. Mine being bones, and Anna's being body language. We took a number of time lapses for each layer of canvases that we created. Unfortunately tumblr will only let me upload one video at a time, so ill have to make each layer of painting into separate posts.

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charcoal drawing workshop yesterday with the painting discipline. this workshop helped me think more about my topic of choice. i have decided to choose bones as my topic. to understand bones, i also believe that i have to understand human anatomy. this workshop opened me up to focusing on the human body that can hold poses and move constantly. @eoinmclsad

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finished 3-D piece.. i used mixed media of wire to imitate a fork, felt, paint, mixed fabric to imitate fire, and thick fabric for the carpet. i also added a little modelling clay skull companion that i made in a workshop a while back.

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i tried making curtains for my sculpture piece yesterday in the vice in studio 5.. although i thought this technique would work for making folds in my curtains, it didn’t quite fold how i wanted them to. in my effort to salvage this, i just folded my curtains by hand and hot glued them together inbetween the folds.. i also burned my curtains partially as my piece is in a burning scene and i thought it would add a realistic touch. i also moulded an oven out of clay yesterday and i started painting it today to add to the piece.

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I painted and added my clay sculpture to my kitchen room made out of cardboard. i’m planning to add more materials and maybe use my blueprints in some way to add to the piece.. i’m basing the concept off my recent short film, kitchen nightmares.

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Artist Research: Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne

When I was scouring the library for photographers for my secondary research, I came across de Boulogne. He was a French neurologist born in 1806, and his photography really intrigued me as it was used for research in a scientific sense.

He conducted electrophysiology and introduced texts and monographs that inspired Charles Darwin’s work on human evolution and emotional expression.

I found that the expressions on Duchennes patients face reminded me of Jack Torrance’s character in The Shining (1980) movie.

I felt that Duchennes photography was more than appropriate to add to my artist research because his photography is unsettling and terrorising, as are nightmares.

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a mindmap that i did at the start of the year. i originally started with the intent of making my project about sleep being temporary death, i although made the ultimate decision later on to focus more on a sub aspect, nightmares.

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a part of a sculpture i’ve been working today on using clay, half human features and half skull features.. i’m hoping to make this piece in relation to photos that i took in the kitchen.

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some pieces that made in a larger sketchbook.. In ink, charcoal and acrylic paint. these were done earlier in the process of my project when i was brainstorming ideas… i feel that they don’t relate to my project as much as of now anymore.

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Artist research: Robert Smith and Pearl Thompson of the Cure

For part of my research, i decided to take inspiration from one of my favourite gothic bands artists, Robert Smiths lyrics in the cures hit single from 1989, lullaby, and Pearl Thompsons Cure album cover artwork. I always found the Cures lullaby music video creepy and sleep paralytic.. I recently had the great opportunity to attend their gig in Dublin last Thursday, which got me tuned in to Robert Smiths lyricism in lullaby even more, because i saw it in person.

When I first saw the music video.. I instantly thought of “The Metamorphosis”, the novella by Franz Kafka. It tells a story of a man that wakes up one morning to find himself turned into a huge insect.

“On candy stripe legs the spiderman come

Softly through the shadow of the evening sun

Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead

Looking for the victim shivering in bed”

I always found that the sibilance in this first verse of the song gave me goosebumps just listening to it, as Smiths voice is also sounds very eerie and whispery. After already knowing the song and seeing it live, I definitely think that it inspired my art for this project as the topic i’ve chosen is nightmares.

Pearl Thompson

Pearl Thompson, former guitarist of the Cure co-founded Parched Art with Andy Vella. Pearl painted, drawn, or photographed numerous recognisable album covers for the Cure, such as “Faith”, “Wish” and “Disintegration” which lullaby was featured on.

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3d scanning/printing workshop. i focused on making a scan of myself in a sleeping pose and a small monster clay sculpture to 3d print which i thought would relate to my project.

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cyanotype blueprint workshop. i used an image from a photoshoot that i took myself.. we dipped the cyanotype chemical in card paper and printed out our images on regular paper which we then scanned together. this workshop interested me particularly because i feel that the chemical and transparent sheets gives my image an obscure feel, which is exactly what i’m going for in my project.

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a short film. kitchen nightmares