evaluation
I will conclude this project by explaining every aspect of this project. I will explain my ideas for this project and evaluate any unexpected issues. I will also talk about my planning process and how I worked in my group. I will explain how the final piece came together and finally I will analyse and explain what could of went better in this project.
Firstly as a group we had an idea of an installation piece about colmore business district. This idea came about when we were on our first location visit, we photographed these very attractive buildings in the colmore area. Once we finished the location visit we had an idea of creating an installation and using projection as well, this idea would be an installation of colmore business district and the projection would be about immigration. This idea never really a firm idea because of the form and target audience as a group we felt that this wouldn’t be very good to do.
Individually I struggled at the start of this project to get ideas and to document any ideas in my blog. My research skills lacked because there was no firm idea for this project. I had a talk with I one of my tutors about what and how should I document ideas fort this project and what he said was very clear and understandable.
As a group we met a couple of more times to discuss our project and to decide on a firm idea, we decided on doing origami pigeons in pigeon park. This idea consisted of making origami pigeons out of coloured paper, coloured paper would resemble cultures from around the world and it would be photographed in pigeon park. the use of coloured paper would also represent the immigration which was one of our words and it would represent our other word error would be shown as an error of judgement (misperception) towards the subject of immigration.
I researched on how origami pigeons are used in other artworks and artists, whilst doing some research I came to an art piece which interests me and is relevant to my project. This artwork was done by Banksy and it was about immigration the artwork contained pigeons and a bird, this interested me to look further into this art piece and use it or my research. This bit of researched helped with researching the idea we discussed, also I had been practising to make origami pigeons and I never found them hard to do and the tutorials were very straight forward. I also looked at some artist who tackled immigration by using their creative skills. I looked at artist JR and what he had done as a form of artwork, I found this particular piece where he created a very large human figure in New York city. This human figure was abed on a person who is originally foreign. The artist JR had another project which was about immigration and Ellis island, Ellis island was a place in America where all the immigrants went. I enjoyed His artwork in Ellis island and New York city because it showed a lot of emotion and included different types of mediums. The New York city project was a very interesting way to portray the subject of immigration. the last bit of research I did was about origami pigeons, the artist Sipho Mabona who is a master at making origami’s had an installation of giant origami birds which were hung from the ceiling, this exhibition was also relevant to my project because of the origami birds, I was inspired by how large then origami birds were and how they were place high above. Overall I felt my research is very relevant to my project, I felt that the artist and the artwork I chose to research about relates to my idea and project.
As a group we created 100 origami pigeon by allocating different colours to everyone, this meant that we had enough colours to place them around pigeon park and photograph them. I felt creating the origami pigeons was not difficult for me and I felt the step by step pictorial guide was very informative. We had 2 practice attempts before the final piece, the first attempt we used origami pigeons made from paper with different designs on them and I felt the photographs that were taken of the origami pigeons were surprisingly good, I liked the way the image blended with the background and the way we positioned them around pigeon park was another positive about how the photographs looked.
The second attempt we used the coloured origami pigeons and placed on the chapel wall, we used different colours to and placed the origami pigeons so that they expand outwards. I personally liked this design and the placement of the origami pigeons, we photographed the process and the final outcome of how it looked. We also experimented with the camera so we could get different effect in the photos, this was done by increasing the shutter speed so the shutter stays open for a bit longer and movement of the camera when taking the photo. Overall I felt that this was a good attempt but the weather was quite bad on the day with heavy winds and rain but I feel it was a good attempt.
We also tried different methods of placing the origami pigeons, we did this in our classroom and we placed them on the table and photographed them as evidence and developmental ideas. I thought his was a good idea, we came out with some interesting ways to place the origami pigeons such as spiral, 3 lines of different coloured origami pigeons and a start shape made form origami pigeons.
As a group our final piece was a good final outcome, our final piece was to photograph the origami pigeons in pigeon park. we had some very nice designs along different parts of pigeon park, we used a spiral effect around tone one the lampposts in pigeon park we got some positive feedback from people walking past and generally the spiral effect worked well. We used the origami pigeons to create the word “error” this was also another design that looked really good. we had other ways to place the origami pigeons around pigeon park, I felt that this final piece and how we placed the origami pigeons was a good and effective way as it caught the attention of a lot of people walking past. The colour scheme of the origami pigeons was another positive way on how it looked. This final piece turned out very well and I felt the pictures we took as a group were very interesting and in general looked very good
To conclude this evaluation, I would say that at the start of this project I was very confused about ideas and what include in my blog. I spent a lot of time researching artwork which was relevant to my project, also as a group our interaction improved throughout the project. I think if we had a firm idea earlier into the project we could have had more time to work more on our ideas however I am pleased on the outcome of this project and how we all contributed towards the project and communicated with each other, finally I am pleased with my groups effort in the whole project and the final piece.