Lars Von Trier

Kinestasis type opening to meloncholia, still images

Kuberick 1 point Perspective

1 week of photography

 

 

Lars Von Trier

Presenting my work

I wanted to present my work in the most elegant way possible but this is very hard when it comes to something as delicate and detailed as my resin cups. I was thinking of presenting them on an old table with a tole of mirror underneath them. I wanted them to be the focal point as I felt they were my best work.

I bought 2 bell jars and a few tiles of mirror but i'm still trying to decide what to do with them. I want to use the bell jars as i think they will  really fit in as a whole but I don't want to over shadow the resin molds.

My 2nd Photoshoot

This week, I got Pat to fill my china cups with resin and I put stuff like Craw claws, fish scales and a dead moth in them for my end of year piece. They turned out really well and gave the exact kind of feel   I wanted. Next to the boxes of crab claws and resin I think it looks like the polar opposite in a china cup. I think it gives my pieces a more well rounded look and shows that the 'Archival' quality to my work is not exactly the point.

I also staged my photo shoot with Arlene again like I had planned with the deer head pieces and the deer makeup in the old Magdalene bathrooms. I made more deer skulls and spray painted them. I them chose her clothing and spent ages doing her makeup to make it look deer like. I got a piece of lace and put it to her face and them sponged on white face paint  when i peeled off the lace the white dots were left to look like a baby deer, which is what the skull is.

These are the photos:

Preparing for end of semester!

I've decided that instead of trying to cram tons of work in over the last 2 weeks that we have in college, I'm going to work on presenting it and setting it all up for the assessment.  I went down to the material store and got a plinth made for my resin blocks to line up. I asked the technicians to make me a closed off box that I could spray paint white.

I went to silks and charity shops to find old tea cups and china cup, I also wanted to find old boxes i could spray paint and display my objects in them as the ones I made were really shabby.
I got 5 china mugs and saucers for 5 euro and 2 old boxes that i spray painted white.
I have been gluing my wax sticks , and head pieces to spray painted boards and gluing my craw claws to a white board so I could hang it on the wall.

I have been slowly but surely getting everything together for the assessment.

Editing my Deer head piece photos and planning my next photoshoot

All in all I took about 175 shots and chose 15 which were up to scratch. I went into Pixlr online to see what they would look like if i edited them. I saturated them so they would look less colored and more icy toned, and chose some of the hats to be the only pop of color.

I'm really happy with the way these turned out, I think they look really cool!

For my next photo shoot i'm going to take Arlene and do her hair and makeup again but make her makeup more like a deer and bring her down to the old Magdeline Laundries bathrooms under the college. I think this will make for a really interesting shoot and make the head pieces seem very out of context which is what I want.

I also plan to bring a few friends out into a forest and put my colored head pieces on them. Dress them all in black and get them to pose for me. I think that this will make for a really interesting photo shoot  It will almost look like a heard of deer in the woods.