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Twelfth Contextual Lecture: Visual Noise

In today’s lecture I learnt about how to interpret the world around me and that like sound, too much visual stimulation can lead to mental fatigue and overload. I particularly found the video clips of a train in China and a busy street interesting as indeed it was hard to think about anything else at the time of the video playing, and the rest of the group experienced something very similar, as we all sat in silence for the duration of the clip. I also learnt about how artist’s and other creative people have a link to a metaphysical existence as they are always thinking in conceptual and theoretical ways. 

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Eleventh Contextual Lecture: Ethics And Responsibilities Within VisCom

In today’s lecture I learnt about how important it is to pay attention to the world that we live in as artists and be able to collaborate with other types of artists to produce a piece of work for ethical purposes rather than consumerism. it is highly important to stay aware of political influences and to be aware of sensitive audiences and what a design decision could lead to, whether it be good or bad. 

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The Portrait

“A Portrait! What could be more simple and more complex.

More obvious and more profound?”

Charles Baudelaire - 1859

In this lecture we explored portraits and various types of portraits that can and have been created. There are evidential portraits, wedding portraits, self portraits and mug shots (criminal portraits).

There are painted portraits and there are photographic portraits. In these images there are often subliminal messages or hidden meanings they're composition has always the main focal point which then leads your eye around the image. In some of the paintings you can see that the composition has been changed such as the hand position of “Pope Julius II” painted by Raphael, this was reworked on. 

Within my work I am concentrating on me, as a subject for all my subjects. At the start of the project I concentrated upon my eyes as the windows to the soul and also in my land of dreams even though we are not awake we are still seeing images, scenes and lands. Also creating a self portrait in my workshop of sewing upon the machines creating a textiles illustration piece. From here I have expanded further and even in the development of fairies I am using the anatomy of my face to develop my ideas further.