so much has been happening, and all so quickly ...
i had my work in progress presentation. it went pretty well but it annoyingly took up most of the day and i had to do my portfolio with fiona in the afternoon.apparently the way i displayed my questionnaires on the wall reminded people of susan hiller’s exhibition (the memorial wall), in the way that she displayed things at monuments. that its just there. you almost done see it, but it has such a presence. this then led onto the discussion of how i could play with engraving things. as in, special items which have the instructions chizelled onto them, for example gravestones, spoons, napkin rings, bracelets, keys. i just need to play around now with my gathered information, putting it into context.
i was told not to stay too far away from drawing, which i agree with as i really love to draw. i have gathered all my materials for a day of monoprinting (tomorrow). i am going to illustrate the information that i have gathered in single images. i want to experiment a bit with the words as well.
this also then led onto the work of tom phillips. http://www.humument.com. he went to camberwell and worked a lot with words, books, and played a lot with the connection between words and pulling them out of context through visual experimentation. i was also told to carry on with the newspaper work. possibly print your own cautionary tales onto the newspaper? overall i thought it was quite handy to have had this opportunity to discuss my progress and discover new ways of taking my project forward.
crazy crazy monoprint day. i really enjoyed it and got into it quite easily. i produced 50 monoprints in that style. and will probably finish the whole packet (100) by the end of the weekend! very excited. i think that my pure type ones worked slightly better than the merging of text and image.
i showed my tutor fiona my monoprints that i have been working on. i had quite positive feedback, mainly of the pure type ones, as when i combined images and text together, i should have just left out the text. we decided on “subverting” everything. i am planning on mixing up the sentences, by putting the beginnings with different endings, and then to play with the idea of “perfect type” on monoprints. i am going to print out a type face on tracing paper and then re print the sentences this weekend using the “perfect type” letter forms. theres something interesting about trying to strive for perfect type through a monoprint…after that i want to play with the idea of “predicting the future” of cautionary tales. i originally wanted to do something along those lines … asking people what would you tell your children (if you had children) to be cautious of? today i asked people “what advice would you tell your 10 year old self?” some of the feedback i received included “be nice to everyone”, “don’t be bossy”, “read some more books to be intelligent”. (photo above) i also need to look at a book that covered the themes of “what i would tell my 16 year old self”. all i know is that elton john wrote something in it! so i must do more research into that. then i should go to the library as well next week. it seems as though my project is going to work out as being produced in book form. i should find the book “how to fold” in the library and begin experimenting.
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