Showing posts with label collage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collage. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

PP&M: Blog entry  27


Last week, having had our concept panel on monday, I took the rest of the week off - and spent most of it thinking about what I would make for these next two weeks in the run up to our assessment (on the 28th!)

I decided that I would;
-Produce a larger scale version of the MVC text I had been working with (to follow in next post)
-Experiment with collage
-Produce some of the books I talked about a while ago as more final little samples of my experiments. 
-Continue to experiment with the text as a whole, using the spacing and font. (Blog entry 25)

I also have to write my personal development plan at some point too...


Below are scans of my experimentation with collage of the Borges text that I made yesterday.

These are a little scruffy, but I think that they work quite well. I prefer this first image with the text in a spiral, using just individual letters instead of words. as I didn't need to overlap so much words are more easily formed, where as with the circular piece, where OI use thew words this is not so easy; the overlapping in places prevents the viewer from being able to create sentences them selves. although I feel I should mention that this was completely random, with no effort on my part to make any sentences or words, but I think that these pieces draw out that part of use that needs to find meaning in things, much like the people in the library constantly searching for answers.
These have been quite successful, and there is lots more that I could do with this..but I'm thinking that I will mainly focus on what I already have, I might come back to this though - we'll see.


Sketchbook experimentation



Sketchbook experimentation


Thursday, 3 April 2014

PP&M: Blog entry  26

I just found this! These are by Sam Winston, and are just lovely. In the pieces shown below he uses different techniques; printing, the other, collage and drawing.
Collage is not something that had crossed my mind for this project before, but is something that I might now consider working with.






Sam Winston, Backwards (Samwinston.com, 2014)
Sam Winston, Backwards, detail (Samwinston.com, 2014)

Sam Winston, Backwards, Print and plate (Samwinston.com, 2014)

Sam Winston, Romeo and Juliet, collage (Samwinston.com, 2014)
Sam Winston, Romeo and Juliet, collage (Samwinston.com, 2014)
Sam Winston, Romeo and Juliet, collage (Samwinston.com, 2014)
Sam Winston, Romeo and Juliet, collage (Samwinston.com, 2014)


Sam Winston, Darwin (Samwinston.com, 2014)


" I initially separated the text of these two books into nouns verbs, adjectives & other. I wanted to present a visual map of how a scientist and a poet use language – a look at how much each author used real world names (Nouns) and more abstract terminology (Verb, Adjective and Other) in their writings."
(Samwinston.com, 2014)
Sam Winston, Darwin, detail (Samwinston.com, 2014)

"Once I had a count of the 153535 words used in Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, I set about drawing a dot for every word... 4H pencil was used to represent the 50567 words which were categorized as ‘Other. 2H pencil was used to represent the 38266 words which were categorized as ‘Noun’. HB pencil was used to represent the 26 435 words which were categorized as ‘Verb’. 4B pencil was used to represent the 38266 words which were categorized as ‘Adjective’"
(Samwinston.com, 2014) 
Sam Winston, Darwin (Samwinston.com, 2014)
Sam Winston, Darwin (Samwinston.com, 2014)
I love the methodical detail applied by Winston to this piece; changing it completly and presenting it in a new way to the viewer. 






Samwinston.com. 2014. Sam Winston : Home. [online] Available at: http://www.samwinston.com/ 
[Accessed: 3 Apr 2014].

Samwinston.com. 2014. Sam Winston : Backwords. [online] Available at: http://www.samwinston.com/artworks/backwords
[Accessed: 3 Apr 2014].


Samwinston.com. 2014. Sam Winston : Romeo & Juliet. [online] Available at: http://www.samwinston.com/artworks/romeo-juliet
[Accessed: 3 Apr 2014].


Samwinston.com. 2014. Sam Winston : Darwin. [online] Available at: http://www.samwinston.com/artworks/darwin
[Accessed: 3 Apr 2014].