Broadhaven
We spent Monday the 10th and Tuesday the 11th in broadhaven. This trip was to get us to know each other better and to make us use our new drawing skills out in ‘the field’. I found this difficult at first as I don’t particularly enjoy drawing landscapes, as they are the kind of scenery that instead of hocking me, they help me to get lost in thought. However i got very carried away with taking pictures. So much so that I kept suddenly stopping causing the person behind me to bump into me every time I toke a picture.
Every time we were asked to stop we had between 5 minutes and 1 minute to draw what was in front of us before we had to turn on the spot and pick a different view point. One of my drawings is of this rock face. Personally I found drawing this engaging because to me the rock in center of the picture looks like the head of a fallen giant. The next day when we had to critique our drawings I found the one of the giant and one i’d done looking up the path over my peers heads, in unorthodox hand, the most successful. For the fallen giant I combined lots of different marks to make it an interesting piece that really stood out. The unorthodox hand drawing was engaging and different from my other pictures because I’d totally relaxed which allowed the shaky and unrefined marks of my left hand to grasp the proportions and feeling of what was in front of me with ease.
The next day we were tasked to beach comb with the intention of turning our findings into interesting mark making tools.
I managed to make all of my tools just using what I had found on the beach. I made a drawing tool with a feather and a long spindle shell, a pattern printing tool with a flat shell and a seaweed root ball and a double ended rope drawing tool.
when we returned from broardhaven we realized how heavy cardboard really is as half the installation had fallen down. So we went tape happy putting every thing back up. The coordinators of this task ended up being the people with the best pictures of the installation.
Cardboard Catwalk
On Wednesday we were charged with making sculptural cardboard clothing for a ‘cardboard catwalk’. We did this in pairs so one of us would end up being the model for a small film shoot. In the end I was in a cardboard costume that looked a bit like a samori’s armor. The ‘breast plate’ was easy enough to make. It was the ‘skirts’ that caused me issues. They were made out of three bits of corrugated cardboard, each at a meter and a half long. We then had to fan fold them, piece holes all through the top of the fan and lace them on to a piece of string. The string would be tied round my waist to create a pleated skirt that in my opinion looked like shielding. However good the idea for the skirt was I almost gave up on it. To thread the skirts I had to thread through each pleat individually but once they were on I had to keep them a tightly folded as possible. If you release pressure on them they fly off the end of the string, This is frustrating and time consuming plus we were being timed before the catwalk.
The actual catwalk was hilarious. Everyone had a different walk and set of poses that had everyone in stitches. As for me I just couldn’t keep a straight face. Suffice to say i won’t be a professional model anytime soon but it was allot of fun.
3D and Performance Art
Thursday morning was all about research. We were split into groups of seven and given three artist to reference in the last bit of work we were adding to the installation. We were given Rebecca Horn, Nick Cave and Ritta Ikonen. The theme we got from these artists was camouflage.
We created part of the installation to hide two people in cardboard camouflage.
Lyra Bright 