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Fine Art Final Piece First Year [Belated post - July 2016]

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Room 2 - Site: Specific & Reactive [Art Video]

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For my Site Specific piece. I worked within my university building choosing rooms and areas which were rarely used. This included places such as corridors, old forgotten storage areas and unused classrooms.
The piece above Room 2 came about after presenting my art history presentation that year where we entered the room as such in to show off our selective talks and then we all left. This automatically linked with my ideas and themes I had been flowing and as such resulted in this piece of work.

It’s a simple piece showcasing an individual’s (me) walking up to the front of the room bowing to and applause and the action repeating. The fading figure helps reassured this idea of the room being used in a shorthanded sense producing the feeling of faded and repeated use of the same kind.
This piece was shown in the same room it was recorded in for the final presentation.

Let me know what you think down below. Thank you.

Brief extract:
Site: Specific & Reactive will see you making art work that is specifically for a particular site; it will, in short, be site specific.
Site specific work is that which is developed for, made for and seen at or in a particular site; as such, in some cases, (but not all), it is the antithesis of art work which we often encounter in a gallery or exhibition space.
The latter can often be nomadic, appearing in one exhibition space after another, and relating to one curatorial perspective after another in what might be called the ‘white cube’. Such work does not tend to take a lead from, or be informed by any particular site in which it is encountered. Importantly, site-specific work appears in one space or place and one space or place only. Its link and relationship with that space or site is integral and unequivocal.

Fine Art - Final Piece

Carrying on with my Music and Sound brief. After drawing from my sculpture, I decided I wanted to make a final piece based off of this work. Having worked with glass in my previous exploratory phase of 3D, I decided I wanted to go back to glass and give making another piece based off of this work for my final piece.
 So taking my favourite piece from the drawing day. I thought of was to recreate such a piece using glass. At first I thought of making multiple little spirals and then adding them onto a large panel sort of piece. With that idea in mind I went a threw a few quick tests together.

Following these tests, where I tried to create a straight block and a circle. I very much scrapped that first idea as The chance of getting the same effect with each little piece would be low and that wouldn't work with the idea I was going for.
My next idea was to make a spiral pattern on a glass panel, but to make it relate back to my drawing I decided on using only found scrap glass not cutting any myself to give it a very raw and rough feeling like my sculpture.

As well as that I didn't want to have gaps between the piece of glass. So I crushed up some smaller blue piece and added them to the gaps to try give the piece a more flowing feel, with everything connected. After this I sent it off to the Kiln with fingers crossed and hoping it came out well on the mould.

To my surprise the piece came out almost perfectly. I really like the effect the piece gives off. With its vibrant colours and spiral patterning. The only thing I wish I had done differently was add more blue crushed glass and some of it has almost become clear due to the lack of quantity in the gaps. I feel if I had found smaller piece of glass the clear base panel wouldn't have chipped as much giving it a more finished look.
However I really like the way this final piece came out and I am glad I went back to working with Glass for this piece. Overall I've really enjoyed the Fine Art pathway, a lot of that is due to the freedom I had to experiment in ways I wanted to. Aswell as having an interesting brief which Didn't just focus on drawing but let me work with making something and then drawing said piece, making everything feel more complete and my own work. It also allowed me the freedom to chose a medium I wanted to use when creating this final piece, instead of just a drawing or such.

Photography Project: Colour & Concept/Theme

 From the brief given to me, this project has two parts. The first being colour, which I chose to pick the colour blue, the aim was to work fast with a camera to get my photos. For colour it was important to focus more on the colour then it was the object which the colour came from. I had multiple ways of doing this which I experimented with. Such as close ups, details of larger pieces, leaving things in or out of focus. Below are just 6 out of the many photos in which I ended up taking for the first part of this brief.

 I tried many different forms of focus, ranging from completely out of focus, blurring the while image. Slightly in focus and perfectly in focus. Just to get a wide range of images as shown above.

The second part of the brief was to focus on a concept or theme, for that i chose 'Birds eye view' As capturing things from a height that they typically aren't seen from seemed to quickly draw my attention.

Fine Art - Drawing to Music and Sound.

Moving from the 3D pathway, I next jumped into Fine Art which I would consider my strongest area having had all my previous Art & Design background based in such a setting. So jumping straight in, just how I like it. I was handed my first and main brief for this 2 week period entitled 'Music/Sound Through Painting and Sculpture'. Automatically the first thing I thought of was sound waves having to paint to music but I quickly got rid of that idea as it seems all but the easy way out and having worked in such a way to let my ideas flow through me, I read over the brief a couple of times to let it sink in.
After looking it over and being told to focus on the key factors of music such as the Dissonance, Harmony, Discord, Rhythm, Theme, Composition, Progression etc etc. I set out to listening to a piece of music and drawing what I heard. At first I found this quite hard so instead of focusing to hard on a certain part of a song I just listened to the same piece over and over. For the first sketch I drew I just kept on layering and layering what I heard until I ended up with that you see below.

Having chosen to worked in charcoal this piece got very messy very fast, but that's something I found very fun. For all 3 piece I drew I was listening to - Supercell - Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari The reason why I chose this song, other then the fact I utterly love it. Is its a very strong and striking piece with a song piano lead throughout. For the fact it has a quiet start and over powering vocals, drums and piano at parts made it very fun to draw.
The piece above was made over the space of 45 minutes, listening to the track multiple times, layering up the different sounds I heard. From the swaying harmony of the quiet piano at the start, to the sharp structure of the drums. Overall i real love the amount of different marks I was about to create while making this first piece.

For the 2nd piece I was once again listening to Supercell - Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari but this time i wanted to focus on a certain part, for that I chose the piano and its repeated theme which is present throughout the song. Since It has a swaying spiral sort of feel I ended up having my hand flow in such a way I ended up with many a spiral on the page.

I really enjoy this piece, I'd say it is my favourite from the whole day for the fact I love the way the swaying motion is captured in a very dynamic way. I feel its strongly represents the way the piano was played, always leading up to something greater but keeping in tone with the rest of the song and instruments. Not to mention the overlay of marks from the charcoal work really well for this sort of piece.

Lastly I decided to move away from the charcoal which I have apparently become dependent on to make such amazing marks and to try my hand at watercolours.

Not my proudest piece to date as I feel I could still work into this A LOT more, but under the timing of the day this is what I ended up with. For this I was listening to the same piece again but focusing on the very start of the song. Where it starts with a very subtle and quiet piano and then all of a sudden explodes with sounds and emotions. For that I wanted to try and recreate the same sort of sounds with a very simple swaying form into a huge explosion of colour, For that fact i like this piece but I feel I could easily work into this with a lot more colour. I think using watercolour was the wrong median and I would have had a lot more success with acrylic paints. Overall I very much enjoyed this drawing to music and the results I ended up with. I cannot wait to take these forms and marks further into this brief.