Kathryn's COFA Blog

_____Kathryn | 20 | Sydney_____ Experimentation, projects, activities, progress. Follow me in my COFA journey

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Blinded // 19 04 14 on Flickr.

109 // 365 facebook page // blog // website.

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Brainstorming on the Idea of the 5 senses

Questions:

- what can be the event for this?

- how to start the physical and experimental research on this concept?

- how will we be presenting this?

- what artists and artworks to look at that has this or a similar concept 

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Documentation.

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  Margaret Olley

1923-2011

Margaret Olley is one of Australia's most celebrated still-life and interior painters. She fervently disregarded trends of the modern art world, preferring to paint the humble, everyday objects that surrounded her. Vases of flowers, bowls of fruit and subjects from her home (with occasional hints of the outside world) are transformed from "the ordinary" into objects of beauty and elegance. With a unique sensibility for colour and the ability to convey light and tone with consummate skill, Olley draws on a deep understanding of the traditions of European painting. Her placement of objects is exceptional, revealing an exquisite eye for detail and pictorial harmony. Olley first came to public attention in 1948 after her portrait by William Dobell won the Archibald Prize. She was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1997, has held more than 60 solo exhibitions and is now represented in the collection of The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, all major State and regional galleries and in numerous private and corporate collections both in Australia and abroad.

"Olley fervently disregards trends of the modern art world, preferring to paint the humble, everyday objects that surround her."

http://www.artequity.com.au/artists--artworks/margaret-olley.aspx

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Cotan's work have inspired me to work with organic foods such as these shown in the shots I took. Just like his arrangements, I took the idea of hanging the vegetables on string and capturing these on a black background to really focus on the detail of the food. As what i said about Cotan's work this process of hanging organic foods resembles of how butchers treat meat, by hanging them on hooks for storage.

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Here I have experimented with food through photography, exploring colour and what that portrays at the same time.

black = depressed, bored, sad

yellow= vibrant, lively, happy, escited

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Dar-Vida stands for wholemeal products and a healthy alternative to common fast food.

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What if fast foods, or junk foods in general became healthier? would people be inclined to eat it or not?

This project made me think of how we portray healthy foods as boring, bland, colourless and unexciting. 

How colour can really give a sense of emotion in anything, for this instance food.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Healthy-Fast-Food/9240103

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"The Future of Food"

- the bright and intense colours really evoke the emotions we tend to have when we see food like a burger (aka maccas, hungryjacks etc)  http://www.zimandzou.fr/70282/466713/gallery/the-future-of-food

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FOOD & MOOD

For my conceptual work I will be exploring the ideas of emotions and food. How our mood can trigger a specific food we eat and vice versa.

Some of the questions I'd like to answer and even look further into are: - What is the relationship between food and our emotion?

- What we eat when we feel a specific emotion? OR what we feel when we eat food?

- Does our mind and what we think contribute on our food choices?

- Does the appearance of food have a factor on our emotional response?

- Does the media and commercial food contribute on our consumption of food?

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Research part 1 Different colours and what moods and emotions they convey. 

http://www.thecreativeden.co.uk/what-colours-should-i-use-and-why/

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Colours and the mood associated with it

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WEEK 5 Cushion Pin "Thinking through the Media" - Concept and Material Reversing the purpose and qualities of a pin. Big, soft, heavy, blunt

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a mapping of emotions through colour

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I conducted a study where 15 University of Utah students recorded their senses at 5 PM on two seperate days at the Utah State Fair. I then analyzed the data and illustrated it in fun and refreshing ways.

Researching on the 5 senses in the human body and finding this cool infographic on how 15 people recorded their experience as they went to a state fair. Kind of like a mapping of their experience

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FINAL OUTCOME

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These took SOO long to make! The measuring, the cutting, the folding, the measuring again and the cutting again! Ahhh! I'm glad it's done! :D So this is the BASE for my design! It's a group structure which I experimented with previously and I liked so I implemented this on my design. There's 6 open triangular prism and an open hexagonal prism in the centre which makes 1 group and here I have made 6 grouped ones. These are NOT glued together but have slits and tabs to fit in one another. To be honest I was so close to using glue to connect these shapes together so it'd be quicker and easier ..but THANK GOODNESS I didn't! :) because that wouldn't have been faster or easier but messier, inconvenient and permanent. - what if I wanted to change something? Or rearrange it? I wouldn't be able to cos it's glued together , so I'm glad I just cut slits and tabs to put it together.. Took a while to finish but it looks good and it's sturdy :) "Slow and steady wins the race" :P Ps. I used 2 diff cardboards for the last 2 grouped shapes cos I ran out f the 500gsm one :(

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Progress shots of how I've experimented and contemplated on how to construct my design in an efficient way Image 1& 2- make the origami shape With big paper and cut the middle to place the base in Image 3&4 -cut it in half ? Image 5&6- place trapezium prism with the base inside and just add the extension bits( via glue or tape?) Still contemplating the best way to approach this..

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References:

Traditional Still Life art

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_life

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=still+life&rlz=1C1DXCQ_enAU410&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=bje4UcP2E4eilQWPkYGQAg&ved=0CDQQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=667

Andy Goldsworthy

http://www.ucblueash.edu/artcomm/web/w2005_2006/maria_Goldsworthy/TEST/

Fischli and Weiss

http://hrjacobs.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/peter-fischli-and-david-weiss.html

Goldsworthy’s work had been a major inspiration in the creation of my ten images. I have taken his idea and approach of the segregation of colour in leaves and applied this in my work. Although there is a major difference in the use of materials, his being natural and organic while for my work it is more of household items and manmade objects, which can be be seen as a challenge to Goldsworthy’s works.

Fischli and Weiss's works are also great for references to look back to as i created my sculptures. Their innovative and creative ways of putting objects together are so interesting. Their works has a sense of hanging in the balance, awkwardness and a fragility that I wanted to emulate in a similar vision for my works.