Ideas Development

Over the last few weeks the project for me has taken a new direction and has really moved forward in terms of design development and ideas regarding possible new work. A peer suggested to me that I should investigate something known as ‘Glitch art’ (year of the glitch). This was something that I explored quite hesitantly, as the ideas behind the work seemed quite crazy and unfamiliar. Never the less I began to delve into the glitch portfolio online and found that I actually could really relate my work and my visions with what I was seeing. The work is all about the movement and distortion of pixels, and how a still image of a set of pixels can be changed and altered to create an ever changing piece of art. This is a concept that I really like the idea of.

Glitch art collage, Looking inot 4 different elements of the movement

Taking the new research into account I began to experiment with different techniques of getting my ideas onto paper, using different mediums such as paint, pens collage and even fabric. It became apparent quite quickly that the collage style of working was the best way to fully communicate my ideas, I began to collage hand painted coloured squares (taken from the flowerpiece) but found this was too long a process and found myself getting bored easily. I took my own flower images as a way of getting first hand evidence too. This worked well to help to develop a colour pallette and strengthen the link back to my painting.

As a way to continue collage without the gluing and sticking I moved on to digital collage. Scanning paintings and drawings into Photoshop and trialling different techniques. Due to the ease of this process I was able to generate a number of different outcomes extremely quickly.

Around the same time I managed to complete my Wallace #Sewell 5 yard warp. Working on a Texel 24 shaft loom wasn’t great for this project; due to the complexity of the pattern I wanted to create it meant a pain staking effort to program the loom on a daily basis. But the samples that came as a result were pleasant and I feel they work well as a direct step down from my initial research. There were certain samples that work better than others, I feel the ones with solid lines and blocks have the most impact as they are the most relevant to the work. I am especially pleased with the colours I have chosen for my 8 weft options and hope to further develop over the duration of the project.

Images of my inital 5 weave samples, using strong vibrant colour for a bold finish.

wallace # Sewell cushion. Ideas for context

As well as sampling with yarn I have also been working with plastic wallets and small squares. Sealing the squares within the plastic and setting them in different ways to create different types of pixelation. I also tried this idea with laminating sheets, something that worked really well.

From there I moved back into the digital side of things, taking my collages and working into them on Photoshop to give another layer to my work. The initial outcomes are shown below. I find they are working really well and I like the sense of depth that is created.

 

Three stages of my digital process. firstly pixelating an image. Then creating a drawn overlay and finally merging the two

As far as my ideas go I think up to now I am working with a solid group of key ideas. Pixelation, structure and repeats. It would be good for me to challenge myself slightly more and possibly add a new element of risk taking to the work, but I feel this will come in time, as progression is made and things become clearer.

This week’s interim crit was massively useful as a way of narrowing down ideas and looking at just one avenue. The making of the 3 required boards helped me enormously in picking a line of enquiry and sticking to it. The feedback from Ann-Marie was positive and she seemed to like the direction in which the work was heading. It was said that my context elements needed a tad more work to them, but at this stage I feel it is unnecessary to tie down to one idea. This will come within the next week.

sketchbook development

Ismini Samanidou's work. Inspired after her lecture this week. Looking at the translation between digital images and woven process to create an interdisciplinary piece.