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Monthly Archives: June 2019
Assignment 5 – Initial thoughts
The course notes suggest to try to harness the primary force of time in a creative way.
Thinking of how this fits in with my interests, there are a few different approaches I could take:
- Rust printing – continue work on this
- Burning – action of heat and time
- Decay – bury paper/canvas in the environment for a period of time
The last of these requires time for the paper/canvas to be affected by the environment, so I started work on this straight away (whilst still mulling over the other options in case they didn’t work).
I did some searching, but struggled to find other artists who did this apart from Kyla Dante. Her piece “Journey- book 3, 2011/2012” is a canvas book buried along a journey around the Lake District (Dante, n.d.) which chimes with the work I am interested in making. How she produces her work, how long it is left, etc. is unknown, so I tried a few different things.
Using a batch of paper and canvas cut to a similar size. I buried these in layers in a tub between earth, ash, metal, etc:
Tub 1:
- Soil
- Paper
- Rusty metal
- Ash
- Canvas
- Rusty metal
- Gress
- Soil
- Canvas
- Coffee
- Paper
- Dandelion heads
- Grass
- Canvas
- Soil
Tub 2:
- Soil
- Paper
- Ash
- Canvas
- Soil
- Canvas
- Coffee
- Paper
- Dandelion heads
- Grass
- Canvas
- Ash
- Soil
- Paper
- Mint roots
- Soil
These were made up differently, but similar in some ways, as I would need to test unearth one tub first to see the impact to know how long to leave the second tub.
I also left some pieces in the environment:
Two canvas pieces, with maps of their location drawn on in ink. One left under a stone in a pond, the other left under a stone on a track which was usually wet.
A folded paper piece, produced on a search for a specific ash tree from a photography book with a fellow artist. This was buried in a damp place under a large boulder near where we found the elusive tree – still looking very similar to the photograph taken 20-30 years ago.
References
Dante, K. (n.d.). Books – Kyla Dante Artist. [online] Kyla Dante. Available at: http://kyladante.co.uk/portfolio_page/books/ [Accessed 8 May 2019].
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Assignment four – Tutor Feedback
The overall comments on my assignment submission was that my tutor is concerned about meeting the assessment criteria and that I should produce more rigorous personally driven and critically focused work. I am confident that my parallel project work will fulfil this and I will strive harder to make this come out of my stage 5 work also.
She is pushing me to try to expand my drawing to include more sculptural investigations. I find difficulty with this, seeing my drawing and sculpture work as being quite separate. Although links between them are getting stronger as time goes on, I find the way I think about sculpture work to be quite different and not informed by drawing beyond sketches and designs required to work out the practicalities of construction.
I need to direct research more towards the development of my own practice and focus in on work which will make an impact on that.
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