Project
Friday, 14 July 2017
Flesh
These are the pieces that I submitted to be exhibited at the UWE Fine Art First Year student held exhibition with the running theme of 'Flesh'. Greatly interested by textures and folds and creases of the skin, I decided to translate and exaggerate those textures into these surfaces created from calico and glue and water. Soaking the calico in a mixture of glue and water renders it stiff after drying, allowing me to manipulate it into peaks and folds and which held their shape.
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| Flesh Exhibition view |
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Convergence
Convergence is a project exploring the way our various digital realities and personalities permeate into our immediate, actual reality. The final piece is a projection onto paintings which I think illustrates translation of the digital world to the physical world well. I have become increasingly aware of the way we manipulate images and use filters to cover and conceal aspects of the original, which we then use to curate and display our lives in the digital sphere. I wanted to convey this ‘beautification’ of images through initial collages, by combining and layering images together so that they’re rendered unrecognisable and incomplete –a completely new image, their original form hidden and at the same time being revealed beneath veils of concealment which in this case is geometric coloured paper cut outs and structured vertical strips of differing imagery.
The collages then developed into a very experimental video I created of my documentation of various imagery being manipulated and edited in a similar fashion each time, changing a specific aspect of the image in a specific order such as changing the exposure first then the brightness then the tone of the image, then ultimately documenting the erratic way I used the ‘heal’ tool which copied and pasted a circular area of the image that I chose to select. I used this as a way of layering and concealing parts of the image as well as to create a completely different version of the image that I began with - just like how our online personas are created and curated; parts of our lives selectively chosen to be exhibited or otherwise hidden. The paintings are tilted, the projection layer not aligned, intended to create this effect of a filter, like the ones used on Snapchat, which in this case is the painting sliding off of or away from the images being projected, as if it’s been ‘swiped’ off (referring to the action of adding or removing filters). It’s also a testament to going beyond pictorial space and the conventional straight edge.
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
Configurations
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Card and photo paper cut outs, 35 x 20 cm (individual hanging pieces)
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Monday, 12 June 2017
The Self Is All That Can Be Known To Exist
Inspired, fascinated, and confused by the philosophical notion of solipsism, I wanted to investigate the dissonance of our experience of reality when you come to believe that the self is all you can really be sure of that exists. Starting by creating drawings and collages that separate and isolate people from their surroundings - heads from their bodies, limbs from the figures of commuters on a train - removing them from their original context and replacing them into a space, I developed this project into an installation composed of mostly steel wire embellished with threading wire manipulated into shapes and forms from my initial drawings suggestive of human characteristics. These wire forms, two-dimensional and unassuming were then projected onto the surrounding walls to form shadows that overlapped and created line drawings.
Saturday, 10 June 2017
Lolo Portraits
Lolo: Tagalog for grandad. He became the ideal model for portraiture when touring Ilocos Norte in the Philippines last year. Unaware, candid, and almost always sat down at our destinations, I wanted to capture my grandad's peaceful and observant nature as well as record the beautiful settings that we were in.
Friday, 9 June 2017
One Minute Epics: Flow
Submission for the one week set project of 'One Minute Epics' using low quality equipment which in this case is my iPhone where I showcase the aesthetics of flowing water whilst maintaining a narrative, a definitive beginning - middle - end.
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