Getting my ideas Together!

So we start back in college next week and I'm trying to get all my idea's together so I can jump back into everything and have idea's ready to run with. Mostly I've just been trying to get my Idea's straight on paper and in my head. Right now my notebook looks like the ramblings of a crazy person so blogging really does help me get my ideas in order.

Luke has kindly gathered 200 wasps from his wasp trap in his back garden for me tow work with when I get back. I miss working with resin, so this should be good fun!

Here are some notebook pages I am working on at the moment

Contextual:

Guido Mocafico

'Photographer choosing to place the snakes into rectangular boxes, snapping each photo from above at a precisely balanced moment, turning chaotic figures into something distinctly geometric. From Mocafico’s selection of different species to their gorgeous coloration and almost zen-like positioning'

My Wasps

So I have been trying to collect as much wasps as possible so I can hopefully use them, as you can see I don't have that many as of yet but by the end of the summer I plan on having LOADS.

I Love Tessa Farmer (Below) Her work is so vibrant and lively, everything is so intricate and detailed, she loves using wasps and see's them as the enemy in her work. It's almost like nature and insects are at war when you are looking at her work, something are being killed and others and decomposing and laying eggs,

 My Wasps

Contextual:

Tess Farmer

'Tessa Farmer is a sculptor who has created an intricate, underground world ruled by violent gangs of insect-sized skeleton fairies. Basically put, she tells stories with dead animals, but each piece seems to relate to some larger, overarching narrative with dead swans, persecuted grey squirrels, parasitic wasp'

Snake Anit-venom

So I was in America at the beginning of the summer and I came across these snake anti venom kits from the early 1900's for rattlesnake bites, I will admit I am a bit obsessed, I loved the layout and the sheer novelty of the fact I have never seen anything like it before. It included anti-venom and a detailed description of how to use it, including a needle to extract the venom.

I love old medicine and doctor kits, I have been looking into Plague masks because of my bird skull so this seems more than fitting. Sadly I could only take pictures as I'm fairly sure immigration wouldn't let me through with 3 viles of liquid and a needle.
I love old bottles and vile's, so seeing these was kind of amazing. I love fining old thing like this that are so elegant and re-making them in a new vibrant material , like wax or latex, there is something in the vulgarity of it all that really interests me.

I was trying to get my hands on own of ebay so maybe I could cast it and play around with it, making my own replica venom kits just not for snakes.It is proving difficult! I like the idea of having fun with the 'Anti-Venom' I will see where I can take it.

Context:

Found in an abandoned pharmacy in a Ghost town in the mountains in California

Summer Project!

So I haven't really blogged in a while, i've been finding it hard keeping up with the project all summer but I'm trying my best to get stuck into it.

Research and idea gathering

Consider the idea of an ‘analogue’ – what might this mean for art-making?

Some definitions:

‘to stand in for’ - ‘be parallel to’ - ‘relating to’ - ‘an echo’ - ‘bearing similarity’ - ‘something analogous to something else: a representation, picture, model, image, illustration, simulation, likeness, simulacrum…’

You are asked to generate a body of work which behaves as a set of analogues to your chosen subject. 

I found a bird skull during my holidays and I've been studying it and drawing it. I guess you could say its my subject, its more of a point if interest, Its very delicate and I'm not even sure what bird it comes from, its a bit of a mystery. I really love the delicacy of bone, it has and ivory/pear color but then is so course in texture it almost feels wrong.

 I usually enjoy color in my work but I think thats what interests me so much about skulls, the color is barely there. It makes finding the creams and greens and greys more complex. I like the change in texture and the way the earth has made parts of it smooth and worn down. I found mine by the sea so i guess the water has smoothed parts of it. 

I have also been collecting wasps, there are so many dying EVERYWHERE, so I thought, why not!

Bit O'Contexual

I really love GarbrielOrozco especially now that i'm trying to work a lot with symmetry. I love his use of pereception  which is really what I've been playing around with. I wanted to make photos look edited when they wern't.



Gabriel Orozco, I love the fact that this isin't a trick with mirrors or lights but he actually cut the car in half

Lint, 2008

The Hunt Museum Project

I was missing for this project but I got and extention till today so I've been working on it since.
I was really interested in the china bone combs in the hunt museum. They were beautifuly made and so fragile. I wanted to make a modern re-interpretation of the combs in as fragile a material I could get my hands on.
So I chose wax.

Bone china comb's

 

 

 

My Combs:

 

 

 

Assesments

I was treating the sculptures to fir to the body breif as sort of a 1 day project as i wasnt in for the majority of the 6 weeks and missed that projectand the doll one.

But surpirisingly im quite happy wiht the way things came together in the end