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...
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