Thursday 1st

Today I carried on with installing the images into my space, and finally it is done! I am really relieved to have done this in such a short time, as it was looking today like I would not get it finished for the opening tomorrow. I am really pleased with how the room has turned out and how many images I managed to fit into one tiny space (I lost count at 430)
I also decided at last minute not to use my LED lights again, as I felt that the working light in the room (shown previously on another blog post) worked really well with the work that I installed.

Here are some images of my piece:

I am really excited for the opening night of the exhibition and hope to get talking to some people about my work. I can not believe another semester has passed by so quickly either and all of the work is due in next week! I have definitely achieved what I wanted to this semester and finally like the way I am working!

Wednesday 30th

Today, I finally started to install my work into the space. A bit of a surprise though when no one actually returned the help that I had given them in the past few days, although I can probably manage to finish installing mine by tomorrow evening.
A progress image below:

This is a picture of the room about half done! I was having a bit of a panic about this earlier on today, but spoke to a tutor and got told to keep going with it, which I will do tomorrow after a bit of a break - the sound of rustling paper is beginning to annoy me a little.

(The white sheets of paper which you can see is what I am using to build up the paper so it eventually fills the room, I didn't think of using larger items such as boxes or even newspaper, but will keep on using this as it appears so far to be a good method)

Tuesday 29th

Again, today I helped out my classmates again in the morning, as I had nothing else really to do. I have my images all printed out and ready to install but I spent the afternoon painting the entrance floor of my space, as I managed to get hold of some black paint!

Images will be installed tomorrow.

Exhibition installation week!

So yeah, I didn't post anything again for a while! Nothing major has really developed in my Studio Practice, as I mentioned I have been focusing on the PPAP unit!
This week we will be installing our exhibition, and I am really excited to see how this will pan out.

I returned to the studio today ready to install my part of the exhibition, however when I arrived, I found out that the floor of my dark space hadn't been painted - as they had ran out of grey floor paint! Typical. I spent the morning mopping the floor in my space, then helped out some of my classmates to install their parts of the exhibition.

End of year show planning

I haven't blogged in quite a while. I have been super busy planning what I am going to do for my end of year show exhibition and it has been stressing me way more than it should be.

I requested the space which I used for my test exhibition, for the final show! And I got the news I am able to use the space again, which I am really excited about. I am also carrying on with using the screwed up images.
In my proposal I wrote that I am planning on filling the small dark space with images, which is what I still intend to do! I am really looking forward to the end of year show, and I am looking forward to what I can achieve with my work and how far I can stretch it.


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Below is an image of some work with the screwed up images that I tested out when I found out that I can definitely use the space which I requested:

I had positioned the images that I was playing about with in my space. They only filled up a tiny corner within the dark space. So I will have to figure a way which I could fill the room without printing out every image that I need, as I definitely want to fill the room to fully represent the decline of the institution. I am having mixed feelings toward whether this will work, and what feedback I will receive about it.

















Anyway, this week we are preparing the studio spaces ready for the exhibition installation week after we come back from Easter - so I won't be posting again for a week or two, unless something else interesting comes about. I am going to focus on the Professional Practice and Placement unit over Easter, as the deadline is looming for that also!

Sizing up images

I was planning on going to the workshops after the weekend, to find out how you could resize images so they print out at bigger sizes, so I could play about with making images the size of the room. I was under the illusion that you could only do this on mac computers on specific programs, but thanks to the wonders of Google, I found out that you can do it on windows computers... on the PAINT program. I have started to play about with sizing up of images on paint and below are some of the pictures:

 



(A very messy studio space, piecing together the images which I printed out and planning on how I am going to stick them up)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The images below show the sized up images. I enjoyed doing this as it is something I have been wondering about for quite a while! The images I chose to use are not of the best quality, so I had to print them out to a smaller size than I would have liked to. I still think the images worked out really well, and I know how to do it for future reference! Yay.

 

 

Experiments with screwed up Photographs..

Following advice given from Jessica Longmore, I decided to take up the idea of setting myself experimental tests to do with the work which I have most recently been doing (the screwed up photographs) during the tutorial, Jessica suggested that I did 10 experiments during that afternoon, to see if any other work develops.
I took a photograph after each stage, and recorded what I did and what I thought about each "experiment":

1) I scattered the images about as Jessica had commented that it looked quite "staged" I like this as it makes the images look more throw away and forgotten.

 2) I then kicked the images and they separated quite a bit. I still like how some of the images are upside down and not quite right but I don't really like the layout of how it turned out.

 3) I then gathered the images back up against the wall. I really prefer them against the wall, not quite sure why. Maybe because it reflects the images which I took at the factory where all the rubbish and paper work had been scattered and left behind. I do like how some of the images you can't see at all.

 4) Gathering the images into the corner, like on the original way which I laid them out. However still keeping the formation of the images the way they landed when I kicked them around the room. The edges on the photographs are really bothering me though, as Jessica commented on the "definite statement of photography"

 5) I cut off the edges of some of the images. I was really conscious of cutting the edges straight, but realised when I "crumpled" them all up, they look distorted anyway. I like how the blackness of the black and white photography makes several images appear to merge into one - just like how my images in the test exhibition appeared to merge into the blackness of the room. I will try within the next few experiments to play about with the edges of the photographs which I will be using. Maybe keeping some edges on some images and cutting off some of the edges of the other images.

 6) I decided to take things a bit further with the images which I cut the edges off - I completely screwed them tightly into balls, so you could not see the images which are displayed. I am not too sure about this method, not really sure why either.

 7) Gathering all images into the corner of the room again. Using images with the edges cut off and also the ones with the edges still on and the completely screwed up images. I really do not like how this looks, as It looks a bit like there is too much going on. On the other hand, I like how the work looks uncompleted. Don't think I will carry on working like this.

 8) Using more screwed up images. Still do not like this, as it is not giving the effect which I definitely want to achieve within the exhibition.

 

 

 

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I found this task really helpful and fun as it helped me with thinking on the spot in other ways which I could work and display my "throw away" images.

 

I quite liked the fast paced experiments but I don't think I will carry on working in a way which I set myself time limits ever again, as I was overthinking what I was going to do for each experiment, and this in a way hindered the work. I am going to however be more experimental in my work and hopefully come up with something which I can do within my end of year show which is VERY soon.