Initial primary research/Manmade: Preston Bus Station. Opted to desaturate the colours to focus on the structures. Offered interesting intersection of line and form, a famous example of brutalist architecture and a space I interact with regularily as a bus user.
Primary Research/Nature: House Plants. As well as focussing on form I wanted to investigate layering and interaction, this offered a complexity that could inform an abstraction or at least a perspective beyond the obvious.
Primary Research/Nature. X-rays, taken against the window which captured remnants of the external environment.
X-rays inverted, this offered a different aspects of the images and a warmer colour range. I really like some of these images and think the could stand up on their own beyond just reserach pieces. The subtle, almost ethereal qualities have the potential for ceramic transfers.
Primary Research/Manmade: Stained Glass. An item that I have had in my possession for many years and I have always appreciated the , colours, patterns and form and felt there was some potential in developing this as a tarting point.
Initial sketches responding to the primary photographs.
Bus Station
House Plants
Stained Glass
X-Ray
Digital collages exploring potential combinations of mad-made and natural objects. This was a very efficient way of exploring scale, juxtaposition and composition. I also like the quality of the drawings as the relatively randomised selection process gave an added depth to the mark making.
Alberto Bustos
Interesting lineal quality to the work, could offer ways of developing the drawings into forms.
David Provan
More examples of ways that line has been translated into 3D sculptural forms.
Initially starting to experiment with developing some of the drawings into 3D form. As the project is concerned with amalgamating different elements, I wanted to explore how I could differentiate these elements through making processes, hence one element is drawn, one uses line and one is a solid form. The final part, the false teeth just brings a bit of humour to the piece and also got me thinking about the potential of all the different random objects I have collected over the years.
Quick mould taken from the teeth potentially to be used as a sprig mould or developed through a slab building process.
After thinking about including the teeth, I returned to my collection of odd things and explored the potential of using these both as the objects to potentially work from and as a design process exploring scale and proportion.
Idea Development through maquettes. This process was initiated in several ways, I incorporated a form informed by one of my drawings, some of the press moulded false teeth and a couple of cylinders and a bowl form made up of angled pieces to evoke the man made. After constructing these separate elements, I literally just explored different ways they could interact.
I liked some of the aspects of the initial construction drawings I produced to map out the shape of the slab so incorporated this as a surface. This also allowed the opportunity to explore a more fluid, layered and dynamic use of slip trail and mono printing.
Further exploration with utilising loose drawing as surface treatment for slabs. A this stage I decided to incorporate words associated with eating, I liked the aesthetic qualities of the contrast between drawing and letter stamps.
Initial experiments with ways of shaping and interconnecting the slabs. I opted to keep this simple, allowing the illustrations and text to be the main focus, aesthetically grounding the work.
Final models. I prefer the landscape layout of the fork and will potential further explore these proportions in the final pieces. Also been considering incorporating further text exploring the etiquette surrounding eating habits and serving food. This could represent the manmade aspect and the words to describe eating the natural.
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Final Outcome. These utilised the idea that the natural was signified by 'natural' ways of eating ie teeth and words that describe consuming food and the manmade by cutlery and rules associated with the etiquette of dinning. The final presentation or composition of the objects revolved around forms that supported each other. This allowed for the pieces to interact in different ways and offered the opportunity to continue the building process each time they are used.
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