form frame fracture

04/12/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - Critique feedback

Feedback from MA group:

  • undid a drawing by folding it over & try to undo it
  • deconstructive drawings of architecture - 90's , fragmented aspect, scale up through building from space
  • undone it to put it back together
  • add order and understand it, through the folding and overlays
  • doing & undoing
  • motion
  • livework evern though still
  • 3D objects & archtiecture - a still place where action happens
  • made them active with the stictch, using motion,
  • a book is an active way to look at images
  • paths - books & acetate drawings incorporate media
  • print making to scale up - rotation on screen prints
  • needle punching and thicker yarn.
  • lines seemed physical & real
  • images 3 - like pieces of fire wood
  • movement - the depth & movement from the work
  • motion - up towards sky
  • images - 3D quality - the pieces hanging and the light behind
  • black & white pieces moving around with them
  • 1st image sets tone- influenced the reading
  • skyscrapers hectic city life, & the confusion
  • the intention and the context how images are shown
  • so much is happening
  • softely touch one technique and then move on to the next one
  • motivation to bring message or process was about energy
  • 3D buildings
  • squashed buildings -
  • abstract objects or sculptures
  • large ceramic pieces in a gallery etc
  • journey - squash them & remake them in different materials
  • 2D drawing give 3D/4D moving through & within the space
  • Image 7 - sound reverbation
  • asking to be made bigger, 3D or body size
  • moving through space - exquisite minimalist eloquence
  • edging -framing is important
  • how to keep it alive
  • vertically or horizontally - both or one?

On the absence of colour:

  • makes sense - distraction from how it is processed
  • read as diagrams - it would lead to question what the colours represents 'colouring the eyes'

Response to feedbackThe aspect of motion/movement - I was unaware of this but can see it now it has been highlighted. The drawing in to 3D aspirations, scaling up was largely agreed upon and deeper intimacy with techniques rather than the 'light touch' that has happened thus far. Exploring density through embroidery techniques and materials.

02/12/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - Peer feedback

I shared my work with a peer in the studio I belong to, this is her feedback:Processed with VSCO with hb1 presetH: I love this so much, its starting to do something the white paper didn't do.I think the experiments with colour could also inform density/background.Try drawing with a thick ass Sharpie too. The thickest you can find. Just to see how that changes. 'Weight' on its own has so many possibilities, I'm so curious to see.With the stitches, I feel like I want there to be more density. I know you like the chain stitch, but I suggest going for something with more volume and relief like questions.Some of the drawings are dense in terms of weight & they are so beautiful. They overwhelm sometimes in an amazing way.I feel like that needs to come in with the stitches, I want to see thickness & more aggressive gestures. Don't be afraid - Unleash your dragon.Nothing wrong with 'design' things either, they came out of your mind and are worthy of showing. Don't segregate art & design, combined they yield a rich practice.IMG_5121'The fold book' I would bind the papers but not make it a rigid book. The lines are crazy...what if you tried just binding things together in no order, as you write about order vs chaos. What if it doesn't conform to a book form?img_4690The fragmented & reassembled pieces are starting to do that if you bind this way - try it!IMG_4786Keep layering until you can't layer anymore. Take the chaos to a crazy level... then bring it back.References for density from a simple material: John Chamberlain - the Foam Sculptures,

Frank Stella - how they are constructed, protruding;

k.162 by frank stella
Frank Stella, k.162, 2011, 22 x 22 x 24 in. (55.9 x 55.9 x 61 cm.)

Anni Albers - weave & geometry.

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Anni Albers, Design for Wall Hanging, 1926, Gouache and pencil on paper, 14 x 11 1/2" (35.6 x 29.2 cm)

I found this feedback very useful, although it is very specific in offering suggestions for directions to take the work I am open to them as many are already ideas I have begun to discuss in my sketchbook prior to the feedback. I found the reference for density useful as I understand the aspect of 'dense to bursting point' of being full and overflowing; this contrasts to the minimalism of my stitched pieces but the ink and paper overlays are heading in this direction, it would be interesting to consider how the overlays would work as densely stitched pieces. The aspect of the Frank Stella pieces that are 3D but have an element of 2D when viewed, they seem to encompass a 2D plane even though you know they are 3D.

30/11/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - FRAME - Critique Images and Questions

FORM FRACTURE FRAMEA FRACTURED project, pulling together the scattered thoughts in my mind. Simultaneous works, parallel processes, somehow connected while seemingly separated. Tackled independently but leading to and from each other. Collision, exacerbation, exhilaration. Order from disorder, clarity from disparity.Image 1: Collage in sketchbook, paper, 13.5cm x 13.5cmimg_3714Image 2: paper collage and acrylic in sketchbook, 21.5cm x 27cmProcessed with VSCO with hb1 presetImage 3: Paper collage, ink, cartridge paper and photoshop, 21cm x 29.7cm 
Image 10: Japanese papers, screen print inks, 24cm x 33cm unfolded.IMG_5121 Moving Forward:2 questions about the work.How could the work be upscaled in dimension, but keep the fine detail? I find this thought overwhelming but it keeps reoccurring.The work tends to be shown in a clean, uniform (crop, size, technique etc.) way, there is an element of striving to find order in the chaos; would taking that order deeper in to the work, ie looking at it from a clerical/archivist point of view help develop it or confuse the narrative?More details can be found in the following posts:17/10/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FRAME – Thoughts – TEXT17/10/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FRAME – Thoughts – GENRE17/10/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – Thoughts – definition – Form Frame Fracture18/10/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FRAME – Research Gulf Futurism, dystopias, alienation…02/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FORM – Making: Walls04/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FORM – Making Day 104/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FORM – FRAME – Sketchbook & Research: installation thoughts 05/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FORM – sketchbook: thoughts for progress05/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FRAME – Sketchbook & Research: a collection of thoughts05/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FRAME – Sketchbook: research quotes to move forward06/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FORM – FRAME – FRACTURE – Sketchbook: question06/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FRAME – Sketchbook & Research: reading notes and thoughts07/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FRAME – Sketchbook & Research: Thinking about…10/10/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FRAME – Sketchbook: space notes11/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FORM – FRACTURE – FRAME – Process: fractured reassembled patterns14/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FORM – FRAME – Process: paper gathering14/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FORM – Making: Screenprints15/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FRACTURE – Process: colour21/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FORM – FRACTURE – FRAME – Process: layers23/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FORM – Process: Embroidery on paper26/11/2017 – Task 2 – FFF – FORM – FRAME – FRACTURE – Making: book

26/11/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - FORM - FRAME - FRACTURE - Making: book

To bind,to form through bringing together. The lines bind the fractured patterns in to what is left of a semblance. The patterns of the everyday bind the time passing, the inhabitants of the city, the city to the earth. it is in binding that histories are created and manufactured, families are formed, cultures emerge, radicalism, activism, socialism. Binding is what moves life forward, circulating the earth as the stitches weave through the fibres of the substrate.Book-binding, book construction, book folding, book making...it has a place in my practice, bringing together thread, paper, geometry, process.Moving away from the stitched books I have made previously (see work review post), the pieces called out folding, moving back to the construction of the walls in space (see post).Initially I folded instinctively.Creating a simple book from one sheet of screen-print, simply folding and slicing a divide in the middle. With no specific beginning or end the book allows the patterns to be fractured and layered repeatedly.
paper 33cm x 24cm, screen-printed, folded to 12cm sq - then folded in half.

10/10/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - FRAME - Sketchbook: space notes

space and consumed space according to stats/databedspaces-apartments-                       -   floor plans?  sq ft per personvillas-office- space calculator - lawshouse - average living space per person - uk 38m2 in 1991, 44m2 2001 - UWErestaurant - personal space - flowing data.comeconomies of scale - elements of scale

07/11/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - FRAME - Sketchbook & Research: Thinking about...

Inspiration from other artists and designersThinking about...ceramics - cutting fractured patterns from the clay - like geometric lattice work but uncomfortable - weak, fragile, unexpected -screen-shot-2017-11-14-at-11-50-24-am.png  screen-shot-2017-11-14-at-11-55-38-am.pnghttps://www.margaretkinkeade.com/      (screenshots of website)Micheal Coppers ceramic city blocks (https://www.michaeljcooper.co.uk/ceramics)Screen Shot 2017-11-14 at 11.42.41 AM   Screen Shot 2017-11-14 at 11.43.03 AM (screenshots of website)the fragility of time? life? but why? for what purpose?Rokni Haerizadeh -  But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise (2014–15), he paints over printed stills from YouTube videos and television news broadcasts to create humorous subversions infused with melancholia and critique. (https://www.guggenheim.org/map-artist/rokni-haerizadeh)Rokni Haerizadeh -  But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise (2014–15) (https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/34596)paint over photos to create repeat patterns - use existing digital images to push them further.Heriot Watt - exhibition of architecture studies in AlSerkal - the use of the frame to manipulate the fabric in space - use this as a starting point to create installation maquette.

06/11/2017 - Task 2 - FFF - FRAME - Sketchbook & Research: reading notes and thoughts

Thinking about steps and ladders in art as a means to get higher, climbing the ladder. How long is it? What is it constructed from?
climbing class, society, we talk about getting high as a means of aspiration, to rise up.

'in a field of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile human body’ (Benjamin 1973: 84). The juxtaposition of an industrial, technological and destructive force, with the ‘unprotected’ human body sets the scene not just for modern warfare but for modern life in general.' (p57, Highmore, B, 2003. Crashed out - Laundry Vans, Photographs and a Question of Consciousness)

delicate humans - embroidery - muslin - low thread count

thread - tension - life, everyday

traffic lights - speed, slowing down, control, restriction - pushed forward then pulled back. controlled freedom. (Influenced from Highmore, B, 2003. Crashed out - Laundry Vans, Photographs and a Question of Consciousness)

soft and tactile - rendering of structure of the city - its materiality - soften it - as it hardens us.

'What is being pictured is not the disciplined bodies of worker-soldiers, but the lithesome and mutable body of the dancer. The crash releases the body from the constraint of a certain attitude, it allows for another manner of being.' (p59. Highmore, B, 2003. Crashed out - Laundry Vans, Photographs and a Question of Consciousness)

The phrase Barthes (or his translator, Richard Howard) uses to insist on a weaving of the real through the threads of textuality is ‘image repertoire’. It is to this that we are condemned. (p60. Highmore, B, 2003. Crashed out - Laundry Vans, Photographs and a Question of Consciousness)