Final Chewing Gum

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.

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Chewing Gum

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.

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Lego ‘Bricks’

James May's Lego Brick house

 

Jan Vormann patching holes with lego pieces

 

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