Final Piece

This is my final piece that is now up and hung at Portsmouth University in the Eldon Building gallery.

I was impressed when I saw my work hung.

My piece wasn't hung in the gallery with most of the other work, it was hung in the corridor. At first I wasn't pleased with where it was but after a few minutes I realised with it being hung there, there is more viewers, the gallery goers would know there is work hung there and go and look and also the students of Portsmouth University would pass my work and notice it. So there would be more viewers and isn't limited in who would see it.

Also there is a spot light hung above my work so it's well lit, because of the positioning of the light the gold fabric and the blue net made my work seem more defined.

With the limited time that I had given myself with poor time keeping I am happy with my outcome, I am impressed with what I had achieved with the small amount of time.

A design

For this design I wanted to try to create the inferred image of a hurricane.
On this design I have got a piece of fabric and with a felt tip pen I removed the ink and just left the ink running on fabric. I didn't have any control over the ink and where it was going to run so I just let it run. Afterwards seeing the end results I thought it was successful, it resembled the inferred image of the hurricane.

Design in Progress

For this design I decided to change something nice into something horrible.
I made a postcard, when a person receive a postcard it shows a country at it's best but I wanted to change that and turn it into a town destructed from the storm, it's the opposite meaning, wishing you weren't here to experience this.

Design in Progress

I was inspired by the sculpture that stood at Bondi Beach Exhibition in Sydney, I was unable to find the proper name for this piece.
When I first saw this amazed how harsh it was, I liked this piece and wanted to make one of my own but tweak it a little bit.
I designed my own version and planned on making the edges sharp like the original because I liked the meaning it being harsh and painful. To make it my own I added bandages, which wraps around the sculpture to show the meaning harm and suffering.

Design in Progress

These are some of my designs. What inspired me to draw these are cloud formation.

Before the hurricane if formed the clouds make an interesting patterns. The first drawing is a rubbing I created by using an eraser and I just rubbed out the pencil marks and tried to shape image into clouds.

And the second image is the eye wall, and to create this I just twisted a plain piece of fabric. I didn't add colour, because I wanted to give the effect of being dull and miserable.

Seiko Kinoshita

Seiko Kinoshita is a Contemporary Japanese Textile artist. I came across her work because I was interested in Japanese Textile art and wanted to take it further and found Kinoshita.
What I like about her work is her uniqueness and how she involves her own cultural background and incorporate it into her work and made it personal like I have tried to achieve in my previous project. Being inspired by this I also wanted to include my cultural background into my design, but unlike Kinoshita I don't want it to stray too far from the meaning of hurricane.

work in progress

This is my work in progress. Here I was adding fabric to try and define the raised patterns to create the textile surface design inspired by Yoshihiro Kimura's 'Pedocal'.`
I wasn't working from anything so at times I would stress because it wasn't forming the way I had hoped. I had to try and find a new way to make my project work because there were times when the staples would be visible and I needed to try to hide it, I didn't want the audience to see my project in the making but it being made.

work in process

This is a maquette that I have made, I wanted to know how I'm going to make my final piece instead of going straight for it.
Using fabric I roughly had an idea of what my design should look like and tried to mould it using felt, to me this wasn't successful so instead for my final piece I will use a sheet of acetate paper and project my design onto the board and just cover the parts I want covered in felt.
I had a plan as to how I wanted to make my final piece, I knew how I wanted to make it, what to use but I didn't plan properly if it was going to work, so I was working on an idea.

combine

For my final piece I want to combine the cloud formation of the hurricane and the textile sculpted art together to create something new. Motivated by Kimura’s ‘Pedocal’, I wanted to produce a textile surface design inspired by his work.

So these two are my final designs that I plan to carry forward.

Cass Sculpture Foundation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6K0UHeK3MU

This is the link for the Cass Sculpture Foundation at Goodwood.
A difference between a hurricane and a tornado is where it is first formed and what it is. A hurricane is first created at sea, and as it gets closer to land it loses it power slightly but it causes a storm surge which is one of the main thing that destroys towns and cities. Whereas tornadoes is formed on land and is the main cause for terror.
The reason I like this sculpture is because you can see the difference between a hurricane and a tornado. The difference make all the difference.

The reason I like this sculpture is because it is one of the effect from the hurricane, for example this is like the tree's that are bent from the high speed of the wind's and take that form.

I found this interesting because what I am interested in the effects of the hurricane before, after and during.

Hurricane Sculptures

This sculpture is made from barbed wires, to me it looks like it's been made from twigs and sticks which made me drawn to this sculpture because I thought of the tree's falling to pieces and it reminded me of Kathine Muschick Schnider and the "Hugo Plates" where she used found object from the Storm and created something that had caused that piece to break.

I like the sharpness of this sculpture, personally this makes me think that what ever this sculpture touches it hurts (because of the barbed wires) and the real hurricanes harms and 'hurts' everything that it touches.

Textiles sculpted

Pedocal. 1996. Nylon, polyurethane, polyester, and rayon, 44" (111.8 cm) wide. Mfr.: Kimura Senko Co., Ltd., Shiga. Flock printed

This is a Japanese textile art. I haven't heard of sculpted art before until I came across this, I like the idea of sculpting a design using textiles, I am thinking of using this idea as an inspiration.

Flashing Water

"THE HUGO PLATES by Katherine Muschick Schnider"

I like the way Katherine had used a found object from the aftermath of the Hurricane, and with it she recreated that day by making an etching on Zinc Printing Plates using ink. What I like about this specific art is the use of the bright and bold colouring and also when I look at this I'm thinking that it must've been done in a quick minute and it looks really detailed with the waves crashing and the wind and the rain pouring down coming from the side of the plates.

I could make something like this, I could experiment using ink or paint, and I would try to be quick, not think about specifically what I'm trying to do, and then look at what I have produced after I have finished.

Kazuya Akimoto

Five Tornadoes...

I came across this art work by Kazuya Akimoto called Five Tornadoes. When I first saw it I didn't immediately know it was based on Tornadoes, the reason I thought this was because when a thought comes to mind about tornadoes or hurricanes, I think of dull and lifeless colours because of the pain and misery it brings, but what bought my attention was the bold colours he used.

Shapes and Patterns

I am interested in the patterns that the hurricanes makes, weather it's the satellite pictures, or the forming of the tornado.

I want to look at the images that make the hurricane rather than the hurricanes itself.

I think Hurricanes makes interesting shapes and patterns, the marks it leaves on the earth, the rubbles of homes in piles. So I am interested in what I will find.