-To begin my designs for prints I had to draw them out, using pencil then overlaying the designs with ink to ensure they were dark enough when printed out to burn onto the screens.
Photo copied them into the mac and cleaned them up on photoshop
-inverted colours on photoshop
The White of the images do not burn onto the screens the black does.
Small details above which other colours will go onto.
I am currently investigating incongruous, luck and loneliness within public spaces, Gulliver looks through tunnel vision at the world but the presence of the uncanny explores the Incongruous, which soon changes into loneliness. My use of props teeters on the edge of Incongruous and Luck. The uncanny nature of the objects used out of context, fall and move in any way I can possibly manoeuvre them
Rock Paper Scissors – The figure interacts with the audience, giving out a total of 30 umbrellas, followed by 30 bottles of plain water, the third prop a paper head which is concealed in a black bag, which the figure then puts on and sits on the ground. The incongruous act soon transforms into loneliness, a man wearing a head within a head. A modern detached outlook has the potential to rupture with a surprising act from an audience member. The figure sits motionless until the performance is broken or interrupted, begging the question whether someone pours the water onto the paper head.
The Idea of the paper head in these two performances came from my visual research, I watched Frank (2014), I noted a quote from the film, ‘what goes on inside that head… inside that head?’ the feeling of loneliness and unknown incongruous of what is beneath. I have also used other films as a visual research, A Clockwork Orange and Metropolis (1927). Prior to watching A Clockwork Orange I read the book, upon realising that Alex had no choice in life he narrates ‘Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever’ A Clockwork Orange (1962) I found the passage one of the loneliest I have ever read, especially within the context, hopeless and having no way of changing the cards your dealt.
Rock Paper Scissors had influences in the films A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Metropolis (1927). I looked at the horrific scene where Alex Dances to singing in the rain, I felt it had a element of the incongruous, as the scene itself is horrific and but singing in the rain is the opposite in it being happy not matter what, it’s a very lonely scene, for me anyway. Absurd. I started to think how lonely it is when you see someone walking in the rain on their own with an umbrella and how one may think of the umbrella being lonely and not actually think of the person underneath it, but when you see many people with umbrellas it almost seems like they are happy and they belong. Metropolis influenced the manner in which I distributed the Umbrellas in a circular motion, watching moments in the film, such as the use of time and visions of clock like structures throughout the film, the one machine has almost random distribution of lighting this is how I distributed the umbrellas and water.
PiLOT Performance 17/11/2015
Tuesday night I performed for an event held at university called PiLOT.
The figure interacts with the audience, giving out a total of 30 umbrellas, followed by 30 bottles of plain water, the third prop a paper head which is concealed in a black bag, which the figure then puts on and sits on the ground. The incongruous act soon transforms into loneliness, a man wearing a head within a head. A modern detached outlook has the potential to rupture with a surprising act from an audience member. The figure sits motionless until the performance is broken or interrupted, begging the question whether someone pours the water onto the paper head.
Selection of Images from ‘Untitled (Rock, Paper, Scissors)’
I have recently been invited to perform in Newcastle at Breeze Creative s for their NEW! performance salon. I will take the footage from tuesday night and try to adapt the performance, and test it out further on the 10th of December.
Its been a while since I last posted on A.N maybe too long but here is what I’ve been up to.
Focusing on performance
-Performance
-Gulliver – High-street public intervention
-Loneliness
-Incongruous
-Aim to make a video 5-10 minutes long.
-Print Project
-I am/was struggling for ideas of prints
-A Clockwork Orange
-Dystopian Literature
-Watched Metropolis a Dystopian film
-Looking at combining the ideas Symbol of Solomon.
-The symbol of Solomon
-Uses the Star of David and symbolises ‘as above, so below’
-Metropolis reinvents this throughout the film.
-The upside down pentagram used in Metropolis
-May be seen as satanic
-I feel metropolis though, uses the pentagram to symbolise the unjust distribution of wealth between the workers and thinkers.
-Print Ideas
-Print 1
My redesign of the Symbol of Solomon shows a utopia mirrored with a dystopia.
The symbol in the middle representing the greater good or what both strive for. Above the symbolism of rich buildings, bellow tower blocks representing the poor or cheap housing.
-Print 2
A more simple representation as above so below, shown as two half’s again rich above poor below, the space between negative space. What are the two half’s striving for?
-Print 3
3rd depiction of the symbol of Solomon, inside the cog of the working class the cog design seen in a dystopian game, Gears of War.
-Future Ideas
-Performance
-PiLOT
-Singing in the rain.
-30 umbrellas
-Canopy of Loneliness
-Hive
-Moving a door around the hive
-Incongruous
-Asks the question why?
-What’s the point?
-Door as a portal
-Community Exhibition
-Bag of flower as a gift.
-Performance with the gift?
