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Photos from Hawaii  - Concept Statement and Final Images

My designed object, titled “Photos from Hawaii”, documents the enigmatic nature of the titular country through erasure of all elements of photographs excluding colour. The intention of my work was to explore the vagueness that can surround popular travel destinations through erasure of key places from my recent holiday there.

I was influenced by the erasure of subject in Broersen & Lukács’ Mastering Bambi. I chose to emulate this erasure of subject through obscuring the images through pixellation. The idea of pixellation came from experimenting with ways to edit the image on Photoshop. I then chose to digitally print the 15 images I had edited with a lustre finish and display them in a photo album to play on the idea of showing photos from holiday trips to friends and family. I also copied the style in which my parents used to label photographs in albums with the date/place to be in keeping with the idea of displaying a photo album of a trip.

My designed object playfully erases not only the photographs of the trip but also the purpose of a photo album. I took this idea of erasure of purpose from the focus of my group’s film for Assessment 2. While I feel that I could have experimented a bit further laterally, I don’t think that I could have refined the idea I’ve ended with any further through experimenting.

Ultimately my work is focused on the erasure of purpose of meaning. The execution of these ideas allowed for a playful interaction with holiday storytelling and posturing.

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Assessment 3 - Photograph locations/dates

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Assessment 3 - Printed Photos Got the pixelations printed today with a lustre finish. I'm going to put them in a photo album to finish the assessment off.

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Assessment 3 Experimentation 1

I’ve taken an image of mine and experimented with erasure through change in texture. I like how the textures created through blurring are in keeping with natural water movement. To continue with the experimentation I tried pixellating the image with varying size:

I really like the final image and am thinking that I’ll use the pixellation to create colour palettes for my next set of experiments. 

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Assessment 3 Inspiration

I’m focusing on the theme of erasure for my upcoming assessment and have been looking at other artworks/artists for inspiration. I really like the idea of Broersen & Lukács’ Mastering Bambi in which scenes of Bambi are recreated without the titular animal. They created a clip which was entirely scenic and erased the subject. Images below:

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Erasure Poetry

“Turn elements associated with your assessment 3 project into a poetry work”

We created 3 acrostic poems of varying absurdity using the words “Erasure, Eraser, Erase” to show the gradual erasure of length of poem and meaning. The poems uses anagrams from the word erasure. The first poem seems to complete a somewhat confusing but meaningless sentence. The second uses real words but does not create a real sentence. The final poem uses non-word anagrams. This process creates a gradual erasure of meaning.

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Activity 2 - Combine two things that don't go together For this activity my group combined water and a phone to showcase the secondhand anxiety created from observation. We created this illusion of a phone submerged in water through next one water bottle within another. @helenajanisadad1001posts @barlow2016studiogateway

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Studio Exercise 1 - Make something ugly We used hair, bundled up sticky tape, spit and racial slurs to make an artwork that was truly ugly. @helenajanisadad1001posts @amyadad1001

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Assessment task 2 | Organising/ Planning

Script and shot list 

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Assessment task 2 | Collaboration

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                                                 OBJECTIVITY

For assessment two we chose the weekly topic ‘erasure’, focusing on the art collection ‘Museum of the Handmade Object’ by Vladimir Arkhipov. In this collection, Arkhipov aims to edit everyday objects into objects with entirely different uses. This relates to erasure as a form of transformation. The transformed items in Arkhipov’s collection do not appear to have any use; including his spoon artwork which is displayed with a hole cut through the middle. The spoon appears to be erased of all use, where the artist intended for it to be used as a bubble wand. In our groups’ response we have taken this artwork at face value; instead of giving the items new meanings, we have shown the items put into impractical use through erasure of their original purpose. We have created a comedic short film, which follows the daily life of a person. Throughout the video we have focused on the person’s interactions with a variety of very mundane items, of which parts have been ‘erased’ or transformed to make them appear useless. In his collection Arkhipov accompanies his objects with photos of the items in their original context- in our video it has been our aim to erase parts of the objects, and similarly place them back in their original context. One of the essential elements of Arkhipov’s work is that it is designed to be uncomfortable. It is this tension between the viewer and the work that we wanted to replicate in our video. The audio in particular, has been designed to amplify this tension.

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“Make wearable objects that change your perception of the world”

Our makeshift glasses made out of cling wrap and paper obscure the wearer’s visual perception of the world. 

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Week 7 - Perception

“In groups of 3, one member from each group should find an image online, the more detailed or obscure the better. That member then tries to describe verbally what is happening in the image to the other members in the group who attempt to draw or construct it through other visual means.”

The results of our studio exercise are above. I chose Haughty Elaine by Jason Bard Yarmosky. On the left is @imogen-adad1001‘s work and the right is @helenajanisadad1001posts‘s.

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Context for the images!

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Week 6 - Erasure

This week was focused on the idea of erasure. For our studio exercise we used photograph framing to erase the context of the image. These were our results @imogen-adad1001 @erinadad1001 @helenajanisadad1001posts

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Week 5 - Documentation + Editing

This week, after getting our groups for the upcoming group project, we looked at the idea of documentation and editing and the roles they play in the creation process. From Anna’s information I took down a mind map of the associations of the two words.

We then did two activites, one focused on documentation and the other on editing. The first required us to edit a form of identification. I used my drivers license and outlined the important details (photo, name, address) and then used the card as a stamp. I then redid the process with varying pens of varying thickness. Below is my result:

I really liked the way they turned out, they almost seemed more fitting to our vague week!

The second activity required us to creatively document the contents of our bag/wallet. I chose to make rubbings of the items in my wallet. I like how this both obscured and gave new meaning to objects.

I’m looking forward to working with my group on the upcoming project!