Jellyfish in a room!!

Hello all, or my four blog followers/fellow Intermedia folk! This is just a quick post to show you some of the photos I took of my Jellyfish in the dark room. The whole project is still in development and should be something very exciting...maybe next year?

I think when the darkroom gets painted black it will look better but for now I am pretty happy with the process so far. There is a video but it takes so long to put it on, so I will save that for a special occasion! S'later!

Drawing.

Hello again. I have been updating this blog almost daily which is unusual and probably wont happen much longer. Today, however, I had a breakthrough in my drawing brief so I feel thats something to celebrate! If you remember my projections of that dotted pattern I posted a few days ago? This most recent development is inspired by that. I basically projected the dots again and drew around them with a pencil. I moved the projecter every so often and continued to mark where the light fell. I then cut out lots of purple, blue, red, orange, yellow and gold circles and placed them where the light had been. Its probably easier to just put the pictures up.
Drawing around the light, cutting the shapes and shwacking them on the wall...

Adding more colours...

Final thing...

I also took a couple of photographs of the reflection in the window which I thought was kind of cool...

I think if I had the patience I would continue the pattern around the entire room. That's all folks!

The Exam

Lists, lists and more lists.

Hello there, this is just a quick update to let you know about a project I recently worked on with another lovely girl Sarah Boulton. Sarah and I realised we are slightly neurotic when it comes to list making and we decided to incorporate this into our one day project. We decided to have an 'exam' in our allocated space. The exam started at 9.15am, no mobiles were allowed and there were punishments for those who were late. The question consisted of genres of lsits that the others in the class 'answered'. The lists varied from your obvious 'to do' lists to 'what would you do with...' etc. It was really interesting to see how stressed some people were getting being put on the spot to decide their 'favourite sounds/smells/tastes'. Loved it!

After the gruelling 15minutes we had a look at the 'answer sheets' which were strangely intimate. Many of the answers gave away more than we guessed was intended. We learnt a lot about the other students from some really simple things like 'If you had £50,000' what would you do? We then made a list of our favourite answers, which I will write at the end. We let everyone back in to have a sneaky peek at the 'answers'....was all good fun!

Moon Jelly Fish and more info...

Hello again! The more I get used to using this blog the better it will become, hopefully, so thanks for having a look anyways. Today I will be tackling 'chapters'.

Moon Jellyfish.

I have managed to find a link on youtube of the Moon Jellyfish. Most of the clips I looked at have really bad rock music playing over it or else children asking if they can be stung through the glass. You will get the general idea of what I am trying to create in the Black Space at college in this clip...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF4TYWntFGs&feature=related

Got some more pictures of my Jellyfish also...

This may be backtracking a bit but I found some pictures that I want to chuck up. After I decided to repeat my original pattern in mirrors and windows I decided to project the pattern onto a wall to try and create a Planetorium kind of space. I'm still toying with this but like the idea more than the outcome so need to resolve it in some way. These photos are developments from my earlier drawings which I may or may not have mentioned!

Drawings.

I have some photographs as well as two video clips of my newest approach to 'drawing'. The technique consists of me switching off the light and randomly picking a 'canvas' from newspaper, magazines or coloured card. I then crack open a glow stick and start to draw indecipherable Jellyfish. The whole process is actually really surreal and I think the video more than the photographs captures that. For now I will put up one video, just ignore any dialogue!

Thoughts.

As part of the coursework I am doing me and a few girls from painting are looking at Pop Art vs Feminism. At first I thought this was going to be incredibly dull but in doing the research I have come across some really interesting information about 'Pop Art' as a movement as well as the (lack of) female artists. I recently read the essay by Linda Nochlin 'Why have there been no great women artists' (thank you ecamoodle) which I was sceptical about but now agree with, mostly. It all comes down to the definition of what makes a 'great' artist? When we refer to the 'greatness' of Picasso, Cezanne, Matisse etc we mean genius, uniqueness, complete reverence. Alternatively is 'Greatness' defined by respect, wealth and fame? Surely an artist would have to have some 'greatness' to say, sell there unmade bed for £150,000? Open to debate! Podcast coming soon....

As part of the

Hello there, I have just discovered the wonders of blogging and have decided to keep an update
of my work online. I am currently in second year Intermedia at Edinburgh College of Art and all is going pretty gooood. I will keep this blog updated with any interesting artists I come across as well as articles I found and of course, my own work!

So heres my work from the start of this term 'The Extra-ordinary object'.

I started off this brief by looking at the most boring object I could find; toilet paper. I wanted to transform something really mundane into something exceptional. I will put up some pictures from my sketchbook when I can to explain the development better but for now I will just try to describe what I did. I drew an ordinary picture of toilet paper then, on a black piece of paper, I highlighted the whitest areas of the toilet paper (shadows darkened certain areas of the toilet paper). After this I used white tacs and pinned the 'whitest areas' I had drawn onto another piece of paper. This created a certain dotted pattern, reminding me of a star constellation. I used this pattern as inspiration for a piece of light work I made. Using mirrors, I multiplied my primary pattern to resemble more of a constellation.

I really liked the idea of the repeated pattern and so, set about finding other ways to do this.

This one is my favourite of these series of photos. This is because I used a window to reflect the pattern into while captured the office buildings outside also. I find it interesting as it represents the reflection, the outside and the 'canvas' which is the window itself.

At this stage I decided to repeat this dotted pattern onto the cardboard tube of the toilet paper. I then wrapped toilet paper back around the tube and, for some strange reason, decided to put the tube on a light bulb. I will upload the picture I have as soon as I can find it, but it looked really eery, kind of like the strange sea creatures I recently saw on David Attenboroughs 'Life' programme. I really liked this idea of creating a dark, sinister, eery, beautiful environment. Linking my starry pattern with mysterious sea creatures. So, I set about creating countless jellyfish using toilet paper and glow sticks....

And at night....

The next stage of this project that I am working on is to have a blacked out room white lots of these jellyfish in the area. I'm thinking of putting 'Olsen Olsen' by Sigur Ros on in the backgroung. For those of you that don't know this song, you should...and heres a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEpbnHO-ZGU

I'm planning to do this next stage of the project next week. So I will put up photos as soon as this gets done! Thanks for reading and will keep you posted on how things turn out...