Monthly Archives: April 2014

Summer Assessment: Plan For Displaying

At 4pm on 29th April I have a meeting with our tutor named Tim as Tina, my studio tutor, is not available for the summer term. At this time Tim and I will discuss the way that I will display my work. The pieces I have lined up to show are my photography, my stop-motion film, and my sculptures.

I have considered displaying my most successful development pieces on FGM to show a variety of my work. To do so I will show the following image as a set of photography pieces and a single sculpture of it.

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Summer Assessment: Photography Editing in the style of John Coplans and Phyllis Evans

John Coplans and Phyllis Evans work uses the emphasis of contrast and colour to strengthen itself by giving attention to detail

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The original image.

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Background merged to one colour.

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Black and white layer added on top and then the contrast is raised.

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History eraser, takes away the top layer to reveal the golden collar underneath. This draws attention to and makes the golden collar the focus point of the image.

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Summer Assessment: Golden Sculpture II

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This piece was much less successful that the first piece. The rice paper tore a lot as it was being stuck down, then the golden spray paint lifted it, causing it to fall apart. After this happened I spoke to Anastasia and discussed what I would do next and we came to the conclusion of using photography and showing a single golden sculpture, along with a photograph, and my original film and edible sculpture. We discussed the idea of both similar sculptures reflecting how the two different cultures view the concepts in very different manners. The Kayan Lahwi women wear neck rings to be less attractive to those outside of their culture, and the Aztecs wore golden collars to symbolise wealth.