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Final Assessment 2 - Sugar: Things I Can’t Eat

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres “Untitled” (USA Today) (1990)

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Inspiration for my next work - “Pip and pop” by Nicole Andrijevic and Tanya Schultz

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I really like the residue left by something having been there previously.

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Organising the food diary, figuring out where to place each square

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Inspiration for a poster - food diary

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Upon looking at previous research done on food diaries, I found that most are structured in a grid-like pattern. 

I want to use this to structure my work. It will hopefully present like a food diary of some of the meals I have consumed during the week.

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I really like the residue left by something having been there previously.

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I am a bit of a messy eater, so when I stained a piece of paper with the reminants of the food I was eating, I thought it was an interesting idea to explore.

I could document what I ate with the stains that they produced

This is similar to the work presented by Sarah Lucas in her work “Two fried eggs and a kebab”

This led me to the idea of placing the foods that I was eating on paper and leaving them to stain the page.

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I wanted to find a different alternative to documenting my food diary.

I placed it in different structures, and documented it just scribbled on a piece of paper, through notes on my phone, and then eventually with the app “my fitness pal”

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I began looking at food, and leftover foods. Since I could not eat things such as onions or broccoli, i was finding that a lot of them remained on my plate.

This was unusual for me, as I was taught to finish all that was given to me on my plate. This further added to my desire to consume the leftover food from this wasteful habit

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Desire

I was recently told by my doctor that there were certain foods that I could not eat. Upon hearing this, my cravings for these foods were intensified. For my whole life I had not once thought about what I was putting in to my body. 

However as of late, my stomach has been reacting badly to certain types of food. I had to watch everything I ate, and just finding a place to eat was a mission. I was constantly watching out for the foods I could not eat. Because of this, I was paying more attention to the foods I couldn’t eat. This made me think of them and henceforth, crave them more.

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For this assignment, I kept a food diary for about a week. I was consuming foods that I was allowed to eat, as well as food that I was not allowed to eat.

My desires were often satisfied when I had the foods that I was not allowed to eat, however eating them made me feel really sick

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“Sit in the middle of the room and start taking pictures of everyone with your phone”

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The first image depicts the layout of the artwork. The following images show its closeups.

Artist statement:

This final work has been developed from experimentation conducted to explore the concept of vagueness. My first experiment allowed me to explore vagueness as a process of producing the new by making something that was unexpected and ‘incomplete’. The first experiment allowed explorations in to vagueness as a concept, whereas the second further structured my thinking around mapping, directing the final work towards challenging traditional methods of mapping. The third experiment explored different methods of encoding an object to make it vague, and looks at using a ‘structure’ to disrupt the something which was supposedly ‘un-vague’. The fourth further explored this idea of using the contours of the map to disrupt the structure it previously conveyed and reinforced the animated element in the final work. The last experiment facilitated the creation of the third piece in the final work and explored more 3-dimentional mapping methods.

The final work consists of 3 artworks, each disrupting traditional methods for mapping. The first piece illustrates routes I often take to various places, incorporating bumpy textures to signify how each route taken is slightly different from the last. The second is a gif to be projected to fit between the two other artworks. This piece represents the movement of travelling not usually represented in mapping. The movement created by the gif is also representative of a pulsing heart, associating itself with physical movement. The third is representative of a final destination, or end goal of travelling, emphasising the importance of the destination to a person. The first and third works employ the experimentation seen in the fifth experiment in creating contours. The second artwork also employs this idea of contours from the second experiment conducted.

The works look to challenge the traditional methods of Cartesian mapping on an x and y plain and gives a more personal interpretation to the traditional methods of mapping. The work represents a more relational method of mapping, exploring the route, movement, and end goal experienced when travelling through the mapped areas.

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Experiment 5

The first image at the bottom row shows a mix of the colours of a typical map (brown and blue). This was done using water colours for its ability to create a softer wash of colours. 

Taking the idea from my second experiment, I wanted to cut out the contours of the land. Laying a piece of map from my second experiment on top of the paper, I began to knife out the areas which has outlines for the contours and borders of the land. This is seen in the second image on the bottom row. This lead to an interesting discovery. Since the paper was still wet when I was cutting, the water bled in to the paper where the cuts were and you could see a slight outline of where the lines were cut in to it. Instead of cutting the paper apart, I decided to further accentuate the lines created by the map’s contours. I began to dapple more water colour on the top of the lines to do this. 

In the third image, I had taken the map I had used to cut out the contours, and flipped it back to front. I then dappled some black paint over the cuts. The third image on the bottom row is the result of this. Once more taking inspiration from my second experiment, I took the paper and held it over my heater. This resulted it the paper warping into a map which looked 3D and topographical. 

I am hoping to incorporate this topographical component into my final iteration of works. I really like the idea brought about from my second (cutting and rearranging the map) and third (visual representation of controlled mapping) experiments. The idea of disrupting the organised spaces that are used to organise space, time, and place. In my final iteration, I am hoping to also incorporate elements which are supposed to organise in a way which is not normally expected of it. I an hoping to make the organisational structures vague through confusing its purpose and giving it a way to create new meaning in the artwork. 

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Botticelli, Sandro Chart of Hell, c.1480-c.1495 Another method of "mapping" constructed of a place unknown to them (hell), however supposed to be real. This is a really interesting piece as hell itself was not a physical place they could map out. Botticelli used vagueness through abstraction to draw out images of the various permutations of hell