PDP and practical - HND assemblage project

13th January 2014

I have learnt a few things today about myself, I now know that I don't need to over think what I am going to do as a starting point for each project. 

I need to look through books and find artists or pieces of work that influence me, then I need to research them into more depth. I also know now that fine art can be anything you want it to be as long as it's done in a professional way by using different media, colour and techniques. Iv learnt that most people are thinking in a similar way to me such as not knowing what they are doing so communicating with peers is important. 

I will not stop myself from doing something if I feel people will judge me as this will build my confidence as an artist to show my emotions and feelings towards what I am working on. 

I want to be more open minded about my artwork and think that I can paint onto objects and recreate them by taking them apart and making something out of them. 

14th January 2014

A another group discussion has helped me with choosing which objects to collect and to be spontaneous with my ideas and not be scared to play around with things. 

Iv got a pear that iv named 'Peter' I felt the texture and the smell and drew it, and I also imagined the sound of what my pear would make which I drew aswell, this helped me because I now know that it's ok to do what I feel instead of what I think I should do. I feel that I can be more imaginative after this task. 

A piece of work we were talking about was this 

I took down some notes from the discussion. 

15th January 2014 

iv been collecting different objects from this pile of things that have been thrown out, this is so that I can start to put the objects together to create my sculpture piece.

 21st January 2014 

I have now started to put my objects together and I have created a scene where a families house has been broken into and trashed ( right hand side of the picture) so that they had to move out with nowhere to live except a man made shelter, (left hand side of the picture). There is a sense of  mystery in this image because the red circle that is placed around the other objects could represent danger and is telling people not to enter because of this, as well as it being somebody's home which is private.

28th January 2014

I found more objects and created a new piece which is now a bed/time machine or just a bed that moves.

These are where you stear it and the watches represent the speed and time.

After I put them together I then started to attach it all together.

Each object has a different function.

29th January 2014

 I have taken drawings from my sculpture piece and created these prints, I have engraved into a found piece of plastic that I had cut up into different shapes.  I then used etching ink to print the images as well as rolling up another shape using other ink, I then printed it over the top of my etching to see how it turned out and I feel that it looks successful. I was playing around with the placement of the engraved plastic and these are the prints that I came up with.
4th February 2014

I am working on the idea to raise awareness of human trafficking and abuse. I have cut out different body parts in a magazine and put them together to create a different person, this is to represent how much the girls/women change once they have been taken because they are brainwashed and drugged. This is like controlling a robot, and I have recreated these Bodys by changing around the body parts.

I am using words that relate to this and that I feel are important, I really want to get my point across about how wrong this is and how much it is still happening all over the world, even in this country.

Iv used a man at the top of the page to show that they seem to be the ones in charge and I feel that some men like to be in control of women, which is why I have used the word 'boss' I feel that there will always be men involved and responsible for trafficking wheather they are buying , selling, abusing and controlling these Girls. Iv used the word money as this is the main reason that they do this , and they see it as a business that they can profit from.

I have been influenced by the artists 

Michael Landy, Kurt Schwitter and  Hannah hoch , I am inspired by their use of imagery and where they place them, I want to create work similar to there's. 

 

This is the back end of my sculpture piece which I created out of found objects, it is the final part of it , iv nailed the wood to this other piece of wood which was once the front of a drawer,

I did this to secure the piece together.

5th February 2014 

This week in print I scratched into a piece of found plastic and I used the images from the pieces of work I have been doing, I feel that these were successful because the lines stood out, these are more successful than the prints I created last week because I scratched into the plastic harder and took more time doing it which meant the lines took more ink.

10th February 2014 

I have started to make these compositions more interesting by adding animal and mechanical parts to the different figures , I had fun mixing these around and creating my own figures, I feel that this is what men do when they buy the women who have been trafficked when they brainwash/ drug them to change into a completely different person, aswell as being like dolls that people can play with, this is why I have added a couple of children's toys such as dolls and a teddy bear. 

11th February 2014

Iv drawn the images on and iv attached the parts together so that they look more realistic. This will help me when I am printing aswell, I feel that these words can catch people's eye, especially the word 'dick' I did this to draw people to the work so that it gets them to be interested in what it is about, also it relates to what I'm trying to say.

12th February 2014 

I am happy with these prints as I have experimented with colour, I have never had an outcome from a print like this before and I am very happy with it, I am also happy with finding a new technique to use for the future. 

13th February 2014 

I have started to put everything together from my development , such as the collages, prints, words and drawings I have been doing. I am quite happy with this but I feel I could add to it to finish it off.

15th February 2014 

Iv finished this piece off by adding paint and emphasising more of the words and lines, I feel that this is successful even though I was just playing with the compositions but now I want to push it further to be more professional.

18th February 2014

An artist called Gary came into college today to chat to us about what kind of work he goes and how he gets to where he is now. He does visual art who created work by taking apart electrical items and connected different ones together to create different sounds and imagery through tv screens. 

I feel inspired that he just plays about with different things to create his work and he also feels that his work is very different to other types of art but isn't put off by this. 

Monday 24th February 2014

Another piece that I have created by playing around with the different images aswell as using mixed media. I want to push these by using the images to create a set/scene, and I want to try to take it from a scene I have seen from the film 'taken' which is about a girl being trafficked. 

Tuesday 25th February 2014

I have finished off my sculpture piece today by adding paint and images on there that represent it being a time machine. This piece is linked with my other work as it's about machinery and being controlled like a robot, I'm looking at cyberculture and cyberpunk. This will help me to hopefully push this topic into my FMP, which will also maybe linked to trafficking and controlling women.

26th February 2014

Iv visited a studio/gallery today some of the artists that me and the group spoke to was Stephen cunliffe, Steven Heaton, David Stanley, Jane Fairhurst, Joyce coulton and Martyn Lucas.  I was very inspired by these artists as they were all very different, some more successful than others but it makes me realise that I can't give up if my work isn't becoming successful and to just enjoy what I'm doing. I have come away from there wanting to try some of the techniques these artists use , especially David Stanley who's work I was drawn to as well as Stephen cunliffe work. 

I have had a look on the website which I find interesting and here is the link 

http://www.okstudios.org/artist-index.html

27th February 2014

Iv started to take the characters I have been creating and separated them onto a page each, iv used water colour and Indian ink for these which I feel is successful. They seemed to have turned cartoon like since iv added colour to them, I'm not sure if I want to stick to that theme or change them back to black and white. 

 

I have not yet got a final piece for this project as I didnt feel that I had done enough research and experimentation to end it. I have had so much emotion throughout this project as the theme is something that I felt needed to be known, human trafficking is wrong and this is what I wanted to get across to viewers and it may open peoples eyes to what is happening in the world around us. I know that I have still got lots of work to do on this so that I can create successful outcomes, I do feel that I will be taking this theme onto my next project which is the final major project of the year and this is the perfect oppertunity to get my work known and for the correct reasons. I want to try and make people realise how serious this issue is.