GIRLS ON FILM!

Over all I think me and Karyn worked really well as a team. She definatly added a new way of thinking that made me really think outside of the box. I do believe we could of done a few things a little bit better or experimented a little more but with the time constraint we did a belting job I think.

BUTTERFLIES

As mine and Karyn's "idea" was butterflies it was a good opportunity to research images of butterflies and also about the behaviour of them too. The reason Halloween has the colours orange and black is because of the monarch butterfly migration, the sky is just a sea of orange and black in the month of October in Mexico.








Just a wee post of images of butterflies.

VIKTOR AND ROLF

I looked into Viktor and Rolf for inspiration due to their way of thinking. It is very girly and all about innocence and I think that is a way we could go.

GILBERT AND GEORGE

Me and Karyn looked into Gilbert and George for inspiration for this project as they are not afraid of colour and push boundries.

COLLABORATION

We have had a few lectures about collaborations of artists and designers and how they work and let their creative process intertwine to work with ideas and subject matters to make pieces.

And this week we were told to collaborate with someone in the class and see how we get on.

My partner is Karyn Stitchell. We have actually known each other for 4 years but always wanted to work on something together and this seemed like the best time!

Me and Karyn

Karyn is very expressive and loves colour and textures and i am really looking forward to seeing what she can bring to the table.

Our envelope we received with and idea in was "BUTTERFLIES" a little bit generic and boring but we both thought lets go for it!!!!

So lets see where we go!


(We also had Lisa join our group and help us where she could and had input into the process too)

PUT A LID ON IT!

In the second lecture we were asked to bring loads of materials like brown paper, masking tape, post-its and markers etc and with this mixture of materials we had the brief to make a hat. I know it might sound silly, making a hat out of paper and card but it is all about the process and how we chose the materials to represent ourselves and what goes on in our head and our creative process. This was very much based on Thomas Hirschhorn's "Walking In My Mind"

"Thomas Hirschhorn describes his sculptural environments as 'collages in the third dimension' and explains that this means 'putting things together that are not meant to be put together'. Created from the most basic everyday materials, his monumental works are concerned with issues of justice and injustice, power and powerlessness, and moral responsibility.
"To me, the cave is in your brain, the cave is in your mind... You have to build this cave in your mind and to struggle with what happens in this cave, in confronting it with the world."

I drew a really quick sketch of how I wanted my hat to eventually look, just to give me some sort of image to work for.

I proceeded to cut and draw and make lists (like I always do!!) and this is what I came up with

GET YOUR CREATIVE JUICES FLOWING

Well thats me back at uni. To start off we have a series of lectures with Charlie a textiles tutor at Grays which are dealing with the human brain and how we percieve the world and how creativity is pretty much shown through the individual.

I feel these lectures will help with pulling out all my imagination and help me to build up ideas into a concept. Ideas don't need to be just beginning and end it is the middle that is the most important, the development the creative part that can determin what is a mistake or a good mistake.
Tuesday the 27th was the start of these lectures where we looked into a group of artists/designer/thinkers and how they use there creativity and imagination to develop their ideas.

I will go into some of the artists/designers/thinkers in future posts.

At the end of this lecture we were put into groups and given a piece of paper with a artist on or a word assosiated with these artists and we had to write down what words or practices these artists/words use and how we can use these for our own personal practices too.

This is what we as a class came up with the heads with brains represent the artists just incase you're wondering WTF? haha.

I will continue to post with updates from this lecture and posts that have ideas and inspirational themes to keep my juices flowing!