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Interpretation

Initially, our publication was inspired by Woody Allen’s description of his wondering for his next life( from grave to uterus). 

The process of making this publication involves our thinking about different stage of human’s life, the term “ Now” is interpreted as both one year and a entire life. 

We reverse the seasons’ order in purpose to recreate and express Woody Allen’s quote. Because we have divided the four seasons, each season was concentrated with our individual’s thought, the unrealistic but extreme romantic idea of live from dead to the moment of human creation (orgasm) shifts into a more rational thinking which John Keats’ “Four season” has described in the last page of the publication (a normal but romantic life).

In this publication, the initial idea and the final outcome allows us to think about the human life in a ordered and reversed way. Finally, we have also shows the complex and twisted moment as being “Now” on the time track.

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The Autumn part of publication

In this group assessment, I was doing the autumn part of the four seasons. Generally, the season of autumn indicates the mid age in human life.  

Following the theme of the relationship between human and season, autumn signifies people has the accumulation of wealth in this stage, parents are getting older and the children starts to understanding things. 

In this part, “Autumn Rhythm” is used as the first page to indicates the complexity of this season and life stage. 

The second stage is a direct expression of mid-age human being which the maple drawing signifies the fading of the elders and the same thinking was also expressed by the chroma adjusting.

At the end, John Keats’s “To Autumn” was used to describe this season in a very romantic way,  "To Autumn" describes the three different aspects of the season: its fruitfulness, its labour and its ultimate decline. Through the stanzas there is a progression from early autumn to mid autumn and then to the heralding of winter. Parallel to this, the poem depicts the day turning from morning to afternoon and into dusk. 

The poet has signifies this stage of human life in another way and in the final picture, under the maple(autumn representative), there was the adjusted picture where the father was holding the daughter’s hand, following the second picture, this stage of human life not only contains the elders’ leaving but the growth and companion of the children.

Generally, our publication considered “Now” as a human’s life and we demonstrate it by the use of different seasons. The mid-age is a stage where human face the pass of companion and the replace of new companion, it can be explained by a moment of shift and it is a concentration of NOW in this stage in this publication.

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Research

In the autumn part of the publication, I was intended to show a shift of the colour tone from winter to autumn, the artwork “The Autumn Rhythm” produced by  Jackson Pollock is the one I used when designing the first page of the Autumn theme.

This complex and visual sensational painting has brought in a contrary rhythm between light and dark, thick and thin, heavy and buoyant, straight and curved, horizontal and vertical. The use of pure abstract expression has drawn this evocative autumn picture without a clear description of autumn characteristic.

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Research

The starting point of our publication was Woody Allen’s quote as he wants a life from old to young, as combining the idea of season, different season can be used for different stage in a man’s life. 

The continue exploring the poetic expression in this area which I found is meaningful and interesting 

By finding the similar idea, John Keat’s “The Human Season” is great to be used in this publication as he interpreted human’s lifespan and rewrote this in his romantic way

Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;     There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear     Takes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Summer, when luxuriously     Spring's honied cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high     Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings     He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness—to let fair things     Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

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Experiment 1

In Assessment 3, our group has split different season which allows us to explore the characteristic of different season and relates these features to our thinking of human life.

In adjusting the picture, the change of chroma and noise has created different atmosphere when I adding the text. 

The blurred screen has transformed the meaning and expression of the picture which became more suitable for the text

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Assessment 3 Publication Initial idea

The major theme for this assessment is “ Trace back”. In our group, we want to twist a particular point-in-time such as a man’s life time. 

The initial point for this publication was inspired by Woody Allen’s description about his wondering for next life as he wants to live from old to young.

"In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!"

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10356.Woody_Allen

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Final Work Pictures.

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Concept Statemen & Bibliography  Assessment Task 2 z5157762

In the final poster for Assessment task 1, I have simply visualised human as a baby whose still relying on his “nurturer”—Nature. Although the baby is still small the pernicious effects which he/she has brought to the environment and nature are fatal. Therefore, In this assessment, I decided to carry this thought and use another format of art to visualise, concretise and explore this topic further.

In this studio task, I choose sculpture making as a way to explain my answer to the question of the relationship between human and nature because sculpture making might be the most unfamiliar area for me, I think it is quite interesting and challenging to explore the possibility in this area. Initially, I thought this is a good way for me to concretise nature and environment into the human figure which would create a more perceptual and expressive picture.

At the beginning, I did some experiments to test the plasticity of paper clay as to form human figure, the material testing gained my confidence as I was ready to use the paper clay in larger scale of sculpture making. Therefore, I looked at He E’s “The Yellow River Mother” sculpture which she visualised the yellow river as mother and the people who were raised by this river as a baby. It has shown the respect from human and concretised the relationship between human and nature.

In the second experiment, I tried to use the paper to create larger scale sculpture and the process was fun but I have met the first technical problem here, the paper clay is easy to be air-dried, so when I finish the general form of the sculpture, I have to use water to rub the surface in order to create a smooth surface. Although I discovered this problem and overcome it, it was too late for me to save the first sculpture. After this experiment, I noticed there is a necessity to know more about the form of sculpture which would help me to create the general shape easier. In this way, I looked at the Volti’s Mediterranean women sculpture where he has expressed these Mediterranean women figures in a very blurred and abstractive way. Therefore, I started my third experiment in order to test the construction possibility of the clay and the combination between paper clay sculpture and coloured background. I have tested the use of light water colour on the sculpture itself, Although the result was quite interesting as the water colour expressed very uniquely on the rough surface of the clay, I was not satisfied which I saw a possible combination between different material and colour.

Before doing the experiments, I was inspired by the work “Ghost” by Kader Attia which he used tinfoil as the major material to form the Muslim prayers’ figure. The aluminum paper is also considered as modernist which the use of aluminum become popular after World War II. Nowadays. The massive use of tinfoil also caused the significant environmental problem as the aluminum smelting process are 9,200 times more harmful than carbon dioxide in terms of their affect on global warming.Therefore, the tinfoil can be used as a very meaningful material in the sculpture making. In the fourth experiment, I tested the use of colour on the clay itself which is not expressive as the colour has covered come of the significant body characteristic of the female sculpture. I also tested the use of tinfoil with colour as the background of the sculpture, but the combination of different colours seem unattractive on the tinfoil paper. Therefore, I did the fifth experiment solely to test the colour and tinfoil combination. As a result. The monochrome colour combined with tinfoil seems more suitable and aesthetic for me.

After these five experiments, I was ready to design and make the final sculpture which combined the idea I have tested and the material I have tried. I have made the general design for the last sculpture by refereeing to the great ancient sculpture work such as Venus de Milo and the status of Mary Magdelene because these sculptures has carried significant religious meaning and the early people’s consideration about the relationship between human and nature(god) by visualising their imagination into a female figure sculpture. In the final sculpture. I want to show the distinctive figures construction and a clear expression of the relationship between human and nature as nature is the nurturer of human, but the industrial pollution has made the environment scarred. The final work has many ways to interpret. Visually, I design a situation which the baby (signify human) is kneeling in front of his/her mother (signify environment and nature), their umbilical is still connected, this design for this situation is my direct answer to the question of the relationship between human and nature. Also, I also designed many details includes: The tinfoil skirt signify the modern industrial effect which human has brought to nature, it seems beautiful and attractive but it actually injured the nature as the there is blood on the tinfoil skirt. Also,  the baby is begging in his body gesture which signifies the unsatisfied and everlasting demand which human has made to nature and environment.

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Final work 

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Final experiment on the final work

This is the first combination I made on my final sculpture for Assessment task 2 which I roughly tested the composition of tinfoil with the sculpture.

I discovered that the tinfoil can be used to form a more complex shape.

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Working progress

Basic sculpture for the final work

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Research

In the last material experiment, I have tested the use of colour combined with tinfoil which was pretty expressive. After the experiment, I saw the possibility that the tinfoil can be used not only as a cover or decoration of the sculpture, the tinfoil itself also have great plasticity which it can be used and treated as a part of the sculpture.

Therefore, I looked at the work ‘Ghost’ by Kader Attia. These tinfoil sculptures has created a very divine vibe in the museum and the material he was using in these sculptures effectively carried his thought of religion and modern art which were very impressive.

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Research, Inspiration and final work progress

As one of the main leading idea for Assessment 2, I want to concretise the actual representation of nature in my sculpture work. 

As the previous experiments has tested, I decided to create a female figure sculpture to represent the nature.

By doing research, I gained inspiration from both the  Statue of Mary Magdelene in Basilica and the Venus de Milo from Ancient Greek. 

These two sculptures carries the ideas of visualising the spiritual concept. As Mary Magdelene is one the representative of Christian religion and Venus represents love and beauty in Ancient Greek.

In Picture 3, This is the latest development for my final work. I would be making more details and combination in the later making process

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Material experiment '5

For the final work in this assessment, I intend to use the tinfoil combined with colour as the decoration of the final sculpture.

Therefore, in this experiment, I tested the colours combination on the tinfoil by comparing the monochrome one and the multi-colour one.

I also wanted to see the visual expression after smearing these two kinds of combination.

Overall, I decide to use the monochrome one because it seem more suitable for me to decorate as a part of the sculpture.

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Research and Inspiration

In the last assessment, I focused on the issue of pollution as an entry point to consider the relationship between human and nature. 

In this assessment, I continued to explore this issue and looking to a larger range of works to gain inspiration.

The photograph above was taken by J Henry Fair, he focused on the oil spilling issue and produced this eye-catching picture which is caused by industrial pollution. The oil pollution is not a negligible issue which the industrial use of oil might cause a series of water and air pollution. 

Therefore, these industrial scars which caused by human is a way to consider the relationship between the human and nature. ( Enemy/Birth-support relation)

This is very inspiring which the mixing colour in this picture has certain texture and these “natural colours” combination seem attractive and balance in some way.

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Experiment '4

In this experiment I tried the combination between the tin foil and the coloured clay.

Relating to the topic, the human and the nature has enormous connection, and the relationship between human and nature has different position as being active and passive. Therefore, I choose tin foil as a material which has strong modern sense. 

This sculpture is a abstractive pregnant female figure. It is used as an ordinary object to test the combination between clay and tin foil.

The single tin foil using is pretty unattractive, so I added acrylic colour to make the picture become more vivid. The colour element works effectively until the wrong combination of red and green which has made the whole sculpture became sleazy. 

Although the final combination of this sculpture looks not really fine. I saw the feasibility to use the tin foil alongside with the clay.

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Experiment ‘3

In this experiment, I continued exploring the construction possibility of clay to show the nature as a nurturer to human being.

Also, in this experiment, I tested the combination of colour background and light colour decoration of the object, because the texture of the paper clay allows the light colour has unpredictable result which is quite interesting.

Furthermore, I think there are more possibility between the clay and colour combination, and there will be more material to use and test in the next experiment.

Inspiration:

Blue Nudes  (Painting)

Reclining Nude I (Sculpture)

by Henri Matisse