Drawing
IIt has been long time since we started this module, and
that’s what I’ve been doing:
Macro/micro: are drawings (using mainly ink and textile) in
between two pieces of acetate if I was using textile or just one piece if it
was done without textile. I quite enjoyed this workshop because this way of
drawing was completely new for me, but what liked the most is the idea that
even though the drawing was already done on the acetate, the projected image can
be really different just by changing the position of the acetate or adding more
layers.
Intaglio prints and embossed drawings, doesn’t appear on the
portfolio because the prints are being exposed on the college corridors and the
embossed drawings because I haven’t been able to find them, but I suspect that
because they were completely blank I must have misplaced them.
Wire drawings: Similarly, I wasn’t very familiar with this
technique, but it wasn’t the first time that I’ve heart of this. I truly
enjoyed this workshop and realized that this technique has a lot of
possibilities, but it wasn’t as exciting as the micro/macro drawings.
Video footage: I have some video recordings that were meant
to be used on the video that we did on the first semester but I didn’t used them
on the video because It was already large enough. I liked the essence that was
starting to be noticed on the recordings, they are about repetitions, as for
instance shelves of a supermarket showing one chicken after the other. Then I
kept recording for a couple of days, but still haven’t thought to use them.
Photosketchbook: this sketchbook has been somehow unexpected,
I really never have thought to use the medium of photography for a specific
project since I’ve always perceived photography as being too complicated and
technical. This project happen because I like to take pictures of small
details, textures, unexpected moments or any other similar thing that keeps my
attention. I found out that that I had around 60 of these random pictures.
I’m delighted with some of them, is just a pity that I
haven’t had enough time to stick them on the sketchbook, I should have put them
on Indesign, designed a layout and print them out.
The reason that persuaded me to do this artwork is to use it
as a source of visual research for future projects; although to date I’ve just
used them to create some ‘digital drawings’ by editing them to Photoshop.
Klecksographic drawings : I discovered this
last course, I had fun doing a couple. I couldn’t do more of them because I was
busy doing my coursework. From the ones that I’ve done this course I clearly
prefer the A2 size because I have been able of not overloading the drawings
with colours as much as the small ones.
3D drawings: I came up with this idea while
working on my third project
Mixed media series: this is my favorite and
most recent artwork on the module. I have been able to work freely and careless
and at the same time keep them more or less simple.
As lately I’ve been interested in Language
& Art, I already have the idea and materials for the next artwork, a tiny
sketchbook with either some borrowed
sentences or questions; or fill it up with random and interesting words.
3D & 4D
The first project’s aim has been to expose my points of view
of the new legislation of the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC) through the
Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014 that came into effect last
December.
I had researched artists like Miles Aldridge, Valie Export,
Santiago Sierra, Marlene Dumas, Judy Chicago, Jenny Holzer, Gran Fury
Colective, Guerrilla Girls …
I experienced one technical problem after the other and I
recon that I would probably had enjoyed more any other non technological art
medium, but I guess that somehow I felt more secure using a technological
medium because this is my background, but I didn’t happen to think before
choosing my mayors is why I had moved from Graphics to Fine Art; and is because
I was a bit fed up of working with computers, and I realized that It was way
more fun to work with actual materials rather than a representation of them
inside a screen
The proposed idea for the 2nd Project was in one
hand to finish the edition of the first project, and on the other hand to
transform the video into an art installation.
In this second part, I’ve been researching about
Installation Art, Video-Installation Art, and some remarkable artists of these
areas. But mainly I wanted to study interaction between viewer/spectator and
artwork. I wanted to apply the Marshall McLuhan sentence: the medium is the
message.
On my opinion this is my weakest project. The main reason
has been that I shouldn’t have chosen such a long project (Pro1) in the first
place, because at the end I was pretty stuck and bored of be still doing the
same project, therefore I haven’t been as motivated as I could have been doing
something different.
And also because I missed something that I should have had
in mind is that there wasn’t going to happen a ‘real’ exposition to the public,
so I didn’t have any ‘real’ feedback.
What has been positive about this is that I’ve had more time
to research about concepts and ideas and I feel that I’ve learnt a lot from
reading and researching about ideas in Installation Art, and this study has
approached me to Conceptual Art, Sol Le Witt or Language Art; but the most important o the 3rd Project concept,
functionality vs. unfunctionality.
I became been deeply interested into Eva Hesse artworks,
hence I did my Contextual Studies Presentation about our artworks and where I
explained that some of her artworks and my 3rd Project are questioning
the same concept and having such a different outcome.
I've to recon that I'm thoroughly satisfied with the result of the project- is the one I've enjoyed the most along this course-, but what is even more satisfying for me is my journey on this module along the year, because I've learnt a lot about myself, as well as about interesting ideas.
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