SUNFLOWER SEEDS

AI WEIWEI

An exhibition at the Tate Modern which I visited last week. These sunflower seeds are actually made out of porcelain  and hand painted. It's a very overwhelming exhibition, with a 100 million seeds in the Turbine Hall. My first reaction was to wish to touch them, or walk on them barefoot, I can't help but think this was the artist's wish, for the viewer to interact with the work by really feeling it. However this is not allowed any more due to health and safety issues. Anyhow it's definitely still worth going to see this work.

I don't want to give away too much about the work because I think if you're interested in seeing, watching this video http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unileverseries2010/room3.shtm will hopefully be as fascinating to you as it was for me.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unileverseries2010/default.shtm

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TASK THREE

Random headings to give the images a different meaning:

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TASK TWO

Narrative sequences:

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Workshop Aims:
This workshop will be about understanding how cropping an image can alter the viewer's reading of that image by selecting and editing, zooming in or zooming out and changing the format of an image to produce a narrative.

 TASK ONE

This task was about cropping selected images to create:
1. Close up of detail
2. Wide angle horizontal
3. Narrow angle vertical
4. Crop to abstract
5. Crop to define
6. Crop to enhance the emotional impact
7. Narrow vertical
8. Bold exciting
9. Discreet

These are some examples of my work:

100 COLLAGES

PART ONE

So we've been set an extension to the image workshop which is to create 100 A6 collages

My idea is to create weird creatures by using animals from children's colouring books and turn these collages into a new colouring book

Testing the combinations of animals.

IMAGE WORKSHOP

We started the workshop by doing quick sketches

Then moved on to drawing without looking at the paper

Without looking at the paper with my left hand.

We worked on using the image of a leaf to create different patterns. I really enjoyed doing this, it was surprising the diversity of patterns you can get from just one leaf. These were my patterns.

Another student's work which i really liked, it stood out from the others, it's different and doesn't resemble a leaf at all which attracted my attention.

COLLAGES

We were asked to use one of these words to create a quick collage

This was my attempt of creating a collage which explored humour, however while putting it together other words kept popping up in my head like composition and surrealism, which is what another student said it made them think of while talking about my collage. Later we found out that the task was actually a trick, where you weren't able to choose just one word because your image would always lead to other meanings.

This was a collage by another student which i really liked. it's funny and I like the simplicity of it.

This collage I did explored the use of white space, by leaving more white space the image instantly grabs your attention.

Another student's work which was pretty funny.

Another collage by me.

TYPO

'MAKING OF LANGUAGE'

This was a typo workshop where we explored type in detail. In this worksheet I worked with the letter 'x' by changing it's scale, inverting, layering, showing just the outline, deconstructing and recomposing.

FIONA BANNER

Harrier and Jaguar

An exhibition at the Tate Britain which i visited last week, where Fiona Banner has placed fighter planes in the Duveen Galleries. 

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/duveenscommissionseries/fionabanner2010/default.shtm

A video where Banner explains how and why this work has come together.

In this photo I wanted to show her idea of making the audience become part of the work by having the reflective surfaces.   

I think Fiona Banner's work is not the best or most exciting work I have seen in the Tate. however I think it's very powerful in it's grandness and beauty. I also feel that she has chosen the right positioning for her work, giving it nice shapes and views from different angles.

CAMBERWELL'S FDA SHOW

The exhibition was in Bar Story, Peckham

I really liked this work, im not sure what it was made out of but the picture inside the jar was in water and looked like a different picture when looking at it from different angles. 

Some examples of the work seen there.

INK SPILLAGE

Foundation work, composed by spilling ink on a page then creating images with the lines.

BLADES ALPHABET

This was a type i created last year during my Foundation course at LCC. It was created with blades for scalpels. Quite a painful project.

ELEPHANT PARADE

During this summer the Elephant Family, an organisation which protects the elephants in asia, brought to London 250 elephant models and placed them all around London. I loved them, they were beautiful and painted in all sorts of different art. These were my favourites, they were around the London city hall.

BARBIE IS A SLUT

Digital Photo Imaging enrichment class 2009/2010

BUS STOP

My first photoshop visit in 2008