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“The Little Things”

The idea behind this project was focused around the phrase “the little things”. It is from this concept I started to look into other artist who focused on small works, and I found “miniatures”. I used this medium to create little props/objects that could carry out my message. With the bases of what and how, I started to brain storm ideas and eventually moved on to hands on play. I experimented with ideas and possible methods of executing the theme. Later took a walk around to see the environments I could play with and twist. I then decided on a few directions and started to create them. After which I found them “homes” and places around my area. Hoping each piece offered an interesting narrative in its respective environment.

The main idea behind these pieces were to create stories, curiosity, and life. Each piece suggests life and hidden characters, a swing, doors, ladder, and power lines, all associated with human interaction or use. The hope was that people would stumble upon these little vague environments and make them question its purpose. To surprise the viewer and make them think more deeply about the little things around them that they take for granted. To show case that every place as its hidden gems. The pieces can always be extended to greater concepts such as the world being too big and ideas of imagination. Through the projects vagueness, people can have their own experience and “finish” the narrative and art work. I merely wanted to spark an idea, not necessarily form it. The art work in a way being a collaboration with the public.

The project plays with the topics of

- Experimentation

- Vagueness

- Erasure

- Perception

- Transitions

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“swing”

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“DOORS”

Homes? Who lives here?

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“CAVE”

mysterious cave with hidden knowledge or treasure. A journey.

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“POWER”

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Experimentation/fun

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Waiting for an epiphany 😟

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I saw these when working in Uptown Jewelers and the Art of Disney Store on Main Street USA in the Magic Kingdom. They are so unique. It's literally having a piece of the film. They have lighting effects and invite you into key, classic film scenes.

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You won’t believe your eyes. The goldfish you see below is a still sculpture, made from cold resin and painted with acrylic paint. The sculpture is made by Singapore-based artist cum magician, Keng Lye, who captures aquatic animals in artistic, lifelike moments, that will truly boggle your mind.

“A box of life” I like that :)

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we interview the japanese creative about what fuels his ideas for his diorama-style scenes he makes 365 days of the year.

I really enjoy seeing these little creative scenes made with the simplest props and ideas.

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In a world where we’re dominated by our phones and technology we were interested in how much media, in particular social media, influences our lives. It has gotten to the point where trivial things, such as Kylie Jenner’s hair colour or the premiere of a new movie have become more important in a sense, or more wide spread than actual important issues. We have become more infatuated and more involved with the lives of celebrities than our own lives.

We wanted to portray this in a way that contrasted the failure of the media’s role to report important events that affect society as a whole, to how the media is now dominated with insignificant events of little sustenance. We feel like there needs to be some sort of rebellion against this superficiality, so we started thinking about Hacking and the vigilante agenda. The meaning behind hacking can be seen in the actual act of hacking itself before anything is even spoken or represented. We then turned our work into a rebellion of the failure of the media, by copying what they do best, and reporting on these insignificant issues of little sustenance in the guise of a hacker.

Our work has been influenced by both Soda_Jerk’s work (Week 5: Documentation/Editing) and !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s Surveillance Camera (Week 7: Perception).

We took the idea of editing from Soda_Jerk by mashing up different footage to create a new meaning and idea, and the idea of hacking surveillance from Bitnik’s work. Together with the integration of other weekly topics such as erasure, perception, vagueness, failure, and repetition.

Using influences from the works above and ideas we’ve discussed in class we’ve found a news clip that had technical difficulties and played off that. Using editing techniques to further distort the clip as well as adding in a segment of an anonymous hacker. We recorded a voice over talking about issues that were at the top of the Facebook ‘trending’ segment that week, and distorted the voice to fit the ‘hacker’ aesthetic. We’ve set up our work to mimic a news report in order to portray a satirical parody the original use of the daily news report.

learning after effects :(

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Then my brother was like, "you should light the match." So I thought.....why not. Nothing much happened sadly, was expecting a bit more.

Finished works Well my overall process was kinda just winging it 😅. Just started with a few boxes, looked at it moved it around a bit. Saw some interesting shapes and expanded on the idea. Then let my inner child out and played with my imagination. That's when I thought the little boxes looked like gallery rooms. I'm sure there's some bigger statement about the products and the design of the boxes and art, and some ironic thing about making galleries in them. But to be honest this was just about having fun and transforming something ordinary (a box) and using my imagination (as boring it may seem) to create a story, space and experience (probably exaggerating a bit). In the end I like to think I created an environment with the boxes; something that makes you forget it's a box, and more think of it as place. Bringing it to life if you will.

Round 2 More thought out "art pieces" Interesting playing with everyday little things and the cliches of art.

Mini art gallery 😄 Fun creating little art pieces (and a little frustrating)

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