Clutter

On Tuesday evening Des gave us a mini project to be finished by Thursday evening. We only got one day in teh workshop for it. We had to take four photos of our interpretation of clutter and then from those four, pick one photo to print from, you could take a literal view on it or create your own interpretation of the photo using the different printing techniques we'd learned over the week.

I looked at clutter as stuff you don't need or want, shit thatgets in your way, things you hoard, stuff that just appears, stuff that comes accidnelty. I started looking at clutter on the streets, graffiti, derelict houses, construction work.

This was the photo I chose because the compsoition and colours stood out to me.

The following photos are prints from the above. I've plain etchings, colour blocks, the two finished ones and one with a black monoprint.

My actual prints

After all my prep work in my sketch book i started working on my actual prints. We were suggested to start of with a simple image you've created and complicate it through print, with different layers and plates of colour, through monorpint and drypoint. So I started off with the drawing of the little girl, and the image of her on top of the buildings, I wasn't too happy with teh finished print but I was just getting used to the etching so I'll give myself that :)

This was a fail, I made the monoprint backwards.

The rest of the prints there were just playing around with monoprint and the drypoints.

Print 2 -spaces

In my sketch book I was looking at altering other peoples spaces. I looked at Occupy Space Limerick http://www.occupyspace.com/. This gallery occupies space in a welcoming, artistic, open enviroment. I then looked at Occupy Wall St. These people are occupying their space with the intent to protest for social equality. Through collage I played around with these images. Highlighting the violence that occurs in Occupy Wall St. By placing images of the people into the calm surroundings of Occupy Space's gallery.

 I then started swapping the 1% with the 99%. To highlight the differences between them. I figure you can't understand someones point of view until you have seen things from their perspective The 1% can't understand where the 99% are coming from because they havent lived in their space, walked in their shoes. So by swapping the images I'm highlighting the need to always see things from anothers point of view.

Print

My print project is based on peoples spaces and how they occupy their space in their own individual way. But what happens if i alter these spaces my removing the people/figures and replacing them with others. These spaces are changed. I looked at this through collages. Collage itself is an action of removing figures and replacing them or putting them into different spaces.



 In these photos I removed the little girlf rom her space in the woods, I was left with negative space, I then placed her into plain space. My space is Limerick City, So I altered this space by placin her into it.

Negative space

Negative Space

DEFINING OUR SPACE

I brainstormed for a bit, I'm not sure if I;m going the right way about it but I guess I'll find out tomorrow in college. I'm looking at people's individual spaces and how they interact and occupy them in their own way... But what happens if you take someone out of their space and swap them with another person. They are now in a completely new place they will occupy it in a completely different way than they did in their own unique space. I've been removing images of people from their own spaces and swapping them into others and collaging all these images to see how they occupy the new spaces compared to their old ones.

Prrrint

Tim Mara 'Stage and Television'

Well i missed the introduction lecture to print cause I was sick so I'm just taking a stab at the brief and I've done some contextual stuff over the weekend.  'Defining our Space' is the title, the aim is to explore the impact we have on our surrounding space. 

The above images are prints by Tapies. I looked at his prints because there is an evident spatial quality in  his pieces. His use of colour and shape highlight the space on the canvas,

The above print is 'Retroactive' by Robert Rauschenburg. I like the idea of collage and print used together, I think they produce a really nice finish, more interesting than simple represntations of images. Richard Hamilton was another print maker I looked at, he also used collage in his works. Very Very cool stuff. >>>>

Another artist I looked at when I started brain storming the new brief was Nicole Natri, I just found her yesterday, she is a contemporary collage artist and I couldn't pick anything more appropriate than her collages. Her work is all about spatial quality, the space you feel in an image, the space between images and objects and subjects. This space causes visual tension in an image, the images she inserts into her collages play off each other. 

Another artist who's work I thought was in some ways similar to Natri's is Jorge Chamorro Ortiz. Here's some of his bits;

And one final piece of inspiration is Irish artist Una Gildea's 'Tales of Seduction'.