Print

So my first elective was print which I was looking forward to doing. I hadn't done any printing in my first semester so I was interested in how this would go.
 Our project brief was on our personal space. So after careful consideration and a mind map I decided that what I wanted to do was something based on spaces that people occupy during their lives. So I started with a crib, then a bed and then a coffin. I thought I would expand on this and make have it include the womb and afterlife or something to that affect. But I thought I would be making too much work for myself in the short amount of time that I had to do this all. So I stuck to the three crib, bed and coffin.

These are the three images I chose they have been ecthed into acetate here and I put them on a black piece of paper so that they would stand out more for the picture. Unfortunately this was all I got done within the week along with prints of them as I ended up having to miss the second week of print which was very annoying.






Along with these prints I wanted them to be framed with photos from these different stages of my life and also to have pictures of me in my different beds. I thought it would be interesting and sentimental to have as a little project sadly I didn't get to carry this out.

 So these are the pictures of me and my family. I wanted to show the unity of space shared by more than one person. How these spaces affect each person.

I would not be the person that I am if not for the space I was raised in, exposed to and belong to.

As we grow we each being to inhabit a new space which shifts and changes us further still.

Electives

So we started our electives a week after we came back from our Christmas break and unfortunately I am very far behind on my blog posts because after my first week of print I had a death in my family so I missed the second week of print and therefore I have kind of messed up all my schedule. So I am only now getting around to starting my blogging about electives....
We each had to pick three disciplines to try out so I chose print, sculpture and  vis com. I was really looking forward to starting the elective weeks.

This is the end, my only friend the end.....

So this is how is has turned out in the end. I have really enjoyed this project and I hope that I have made the most of it. With any luck I hope I'll be ok. I'm happy with what I have done and I think thats a step in the right direction.

So this is what I have. They are my  flower phones. Made from brown clay and wire. I constuctured these to resemble a gramophone but with a twist. Introducing the gramophones already organic looking horn to a transformation into a fully blown flower. I think is made the transfer rather well.


I want this to represent both the movement in music and sound which was initial idea and my growth of plants and flowers idea with is a movement in itself.


Hopefully I have successed in this task and everyone will understand where it is that I am coming from.


Thanks for reading. Laura

musical moves

Keeping with the movement through flowers. Here I used tea stained sheet music to create my musical flowers. These are like the ones I made from the paper record parts, but I think that the sheet music give them more movement.

Bettlebum

 Sticking with my flowers, here we have layered paper in a couple of different colours. I think this works well. My initial idea here is that if you stair at this long enough it looks a bit like movement. As it is a gramophone-flower the colour movement is me trying to animate the movement of sound from a gramophone horn.

These pieces here are made from different pieces of paper that were originally paint on plastic that i drew into and made into records or what looked like records. These flower records are an expansion on the flowerphone. This in my opinion are still very much to do with the sound and record movement. I really liked making these and didn't think they would come out this well.

Flowerphones....

Haven't been able to blog for awhile but here are some pictures of the last things that I finished up before the holidays....






These are pictures of a collage I did. I made a gramophone from alot of small gramophones that I had drawn and then photocopied in black and white. I really like this I think its one of my favourite pieces.

Here we have my gramophone garden. Its my gramophones transformed into strange plant like creatures. There are some made from ears, eyes and mouths while others are made into flower like beings. Here I can see the transfer from mechanical to organic life. The movement here is the growth and movement of the organic or plant life. Also I would like to express the movement of music through a gramophone while using these flower-phones as a capsule in which to convey the movement.

OOooohh

Wondering round the Internet and what do I come across? This beauty.. http://thatslikewhoa.com/vintage-gramophone-ipod-dock/ Its combining the technology of today with the classic look of the passed. Great Christmas present *wink wink* thats all for now getting back to you soon....