After my last failure (see post below) I wanted to try something completely different. My goal was to make ‘worlds’ or environments by collaging different materials.
The first ‘world’ was made from rubbish that my dog had pulled out of the bin and strewn across my bedroom floor. Most of it is from food packaging. My constraint here was my materials and the theme of made environments. I think the result is somewhat surreal.
The second piece was made at work. I work in the retail stores at a zoo so there were plenty of animal-themed reference pictures for me to use. The individual drawings are done on pieces of receipt roll using a ballpoint pen as that’s what I had access to behind the counter. I then quickly stuck them down with a gluestick and scribbled in some background elements. My constraints here were the theme of ‘worlds’, using the materials I had at work (with the exception of the background piece of paper), completing the work on my 5 hour shift, serving customers in between drawings and not getting caught drawing on shift by my boss! Overall, I think this piece looks a bit unfinished but that’s to be expected given my constraints.
The third environment was created using a random word generator online. I set it to generate 10 random nouns and tried to incorporate them into my ‘world’ (the 10 words are in a screenshot below). One I’d finished drawing, I asked my youngest brother to pick a colour (pink!) and used this as my background colour by ripping up some pink scrap paper I had around my house. Here my constraints were that I had to incorporate every word that was generated into an environment, I had to make a pink background and I had to create the background after the drawing. This one is quite similar to the first in how surreal and almost dream-like it is.
Overall I really enjoyed this project and would like to continue it further to make a series of ‘worlds’ someday.
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