Archive for December, 2010
Print Workshop
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Final Chewing Gum
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We planned to print the route we took from as a computer drawing, but discussing this with a technician, we found it look interesting as a print, trying monoprinting and collagraph printing.
Putting the bricks made from newspaper, the prints and the film together as an installation.
Working as a collaboration we could develop this idea in different ways, with different ideas and inputs, then showing everything together gives the documenting aspect that we were trying to achieve with this project.
Chewing Gum
Posted in Artist Research, Chewing Gum Project on December 13, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Chewing gum, people dispose of it anywhere – but this hardened material become ingrained in our environment. What happened to these “Gum Boards” of 2005? Thinking about the DNA we leave around the country, and with chewing gum always reminding me of filler used to fill gaps Anne, Vicki and myself took to the streets using the chewing gum to fill the damaged brick work around Birmingham, documenting this with notes, photographs and film.
Centering this project around how Diverse Birmingham is with so many different cultures making up this city, DNA being left everywhere. Making paper bricks out of different types of newspapers and cementing them together with the chewing gum was a new development projecting the idea of DNA (people) building a city into what it is.
Textile Workshop
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3D/Wood Workshop
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Replicating an object on a smaller scale, beginning with initial drawings with measurements to work from.
FINISHED MODEL
Ideas – 57 sides
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could develop this idea with mirrors, using lighting to highlight the reflective surface.
Metal Workshop
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Lego ‘Bricks’
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Chairs
Posted in Wear a Chair on December 11, 2010| Leave a Comment »
This work looks at the isolation of living, being different can often lead to not being accepted. Each chair has been photographed the same way, enhancing the differences. The horizontal line running through all the photographs, where the table top meets the wall is faint but visible referencing the horizon line of land meeting sky.
Although happy with the photographs, I would have liked to have organised my time better so it was possible to print all photographs and mount them onto wooden boards or frame them , so they could be displayed better.
Contraband – Taryn Simon
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Bird corpse, labeled as home décor, Indonesia to Miami, Florida (prohibited)
Steroids, Testosterone & Sustanon, Pakistan (illegal)
Cigarettes, eight cartons, Marlboro (passenger declined to pay tax) (abandoned)
A set of 1,075 photographs — shot over five days at both the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the U.S. Postal Service International Mail Facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York. Taryn Simon remained on site and photographed items seized or detained from passengers or express mail entering the United States, which would become the book and exhibition, ‘‘Contraband’’.
It is the simple uniformed images which I find most appealing. A catalogue of objects, giving an insight into the world through the restrictions of the United States – many of the seized objects are normal parts of everyday life in the travellers country of origin.
A projection of human desires.
Art Vision 
