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Just a short article about the social, political Issues for the Igorot people.

Here is an additional article I came across while researching. Reading this article, this was one of the pieces that inspired me to only focus on Jacob Maentz’s landscape photographs when I did my fabric painting. 

I focused more on Jacob’s natural and naturalistic images,  for land was an important part for the Igorot people (alongside other indigenous people) for it was apart of who they are but due to economic poverty, they did not have access to their own land. 

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AN OVERVIEW OF THE WORK IN IMAGES

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EXPERIMENTING WITH THE LAYOUT/DISPLAY OF MY WORK

I forgot to mention in my earlier posts that I experimented with the layout of the higher pieces of work. I tried displaying just the books and the fabric paintings; the individual silver pages and the fabric paintings, but what I think felt best, was the idea of putting everything on display, for I felt like if I did not add the fabric art books it would feel empty as well as the individual pages. 

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FINAL VIEW OF INSTALLATION OF WORK  (Pt.1)

Here are some images from each angle of the final work.  

On a side note, I decided to add on some of my previous work from the last critique, but this time I decided to remove the shelves completely for I felt like it just working well with the other work.

(Just an overview of my supporting work)

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FINAL WEEK BEFORE ASSESSMENT (WEEK 6):

So with the images above, they are apart of my final work that I will be showing.

These pieces are probably my favourite pieces because they are made up of small paintings of images from back home (Philippines) which were inspired by Jacob Maentz’ photography work. Whenever I look at it, it makes me miss my family members back home. It makes me feel sad also because of how the people that live in Baguio, Philippines are slowly loosing this view and farming atmosphere due to the demolishment of trees and establishment of houses and Philippines being overpopulated. 

This thought then brought to me the idea of deforestation. Which also feels like it would work well and show that contrast with my following industrial feel of silver book pieces. 

FINAL LAB (PRINT LAB) : 

With the end of semester 1 coming up, I also had my final lab to experiment with. In the print lab, I was able to make my own frame to print on. 

This is an image of the final outcomes which came out quite nice. (Side note: It’s not my design but an illustrator that I admire.) 

Also, if I had more time to experiment with the print lab, I think that the fabric paintings shown above would have been interesting to create into a print and this is something I could consider for next times work.

ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF WORK:

Going back to one of my earlier works, I came back to this weaving work and I took the sticks and spray painted them gold to also show the contrast between traditional/old and industrial/new.

As I was setting up my work, I did not think that it would work alongside the other works, so I decided to make it one of my supporting works instead.

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As I continued to research for more artists, I came across this textile artist who paints with fabrics which is really interesting. Lisa focuses on thin lines which is something that has recurred in her work which soon became her signature work.

These specific work of hers titled ‘Structures’(the first image) and ‘Living in Colour’ (the second image) is the ones that I liked the most because of the layout of the fabrics. I like how she had but a gap between each piece so there is that slight disocnnection between the pieces which is what Lisa likes to ponder on through her work. She studies the disconnection and barriers in relationships and how they can make an impact.  

After looking at Call’s work, I decided to try it with images of my plastered patterns and I wanted to look at the relationship between each piece. I wanted to take her idea and make it my own by cutting the original piece into half and rearranging it with a different plastered object image. 

I think it came out quite interesting and I could possibly explore this idea.

Also, I decided to invert the images and make the colours negative just to see if there would be an interesting effect which there was. But I think that some parts of the images where too bright. 

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(A short clip of the second hanging book.)

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(Short clip of one of the hanging books.)