I have decided I’m going to do a scanner adventures spin-off project called “scans of my life right now” which will be less concentrated on my face and more concentrated on the things around me and representing what I’m thinking about or doing today or this week in a sort of scan-collage.
I printed out a Blixa for another project that shall remain mysterious for now.
I’d like this to perhaps become a series about the internet as a social tool and how it affects social behaviours and relations (for example in its facilitation of closer proximity to famous people and strangers in general), but projects often feel like wriggling creatures eager to jump out of my hands and elope, so I won’t promise it.
Here is a picture of me in a suit for an important project about me in a suit.
Progress and Achievement.
Being more immersed in my work has helped me to be more decisive, and therefore more productive with my work. My interest in and use of the book as a form has been confirmed and I hope to take the skills I have and make this way of working more coherent. I have been able to optimise my concentration and experimentation and increase my work rate in order to both increase and improve my output.
Pathway Choice.
I chose the Fine Art option as it offered the opportunity to explore ideas in greater depth and breadth. Artists such as Klari Reis, and the way she painted an intricate and epic galaxy within a Petri dish, Anselm Kiefer, who creates fascinating textures in his work have been particularly inspiring. Also delicate illustrators such as Arthur Rackham, who is able to create sinister and fantastical images in a light fairy-tale like style.
Project Proposal Aims and Realisation.
The purpose of this project is to explore the concept of identity and how much control we have over our identities. As a part of this I intend to draw attention to the crippling injustices and inequalities that loom over the society we live in by looking at gender roles and social conditioning to explore why we live like this and why so many of us accept it.
I want to explore the larger theme of identity with a series of themed books that each represent a different influence that can shape someone’s being, e.g. political influences, the human face in relation to personality. This is based on the idea that lives themselves are like books. We are all fascinating, interlinking stories. This is partially influenced by a particular Doctor Who story (Silence In The Library/Forest Of The Dead) in which the Doctor finds himself on a library as big as a planet and suggests that there is a book representing each life. We also see the doctor’s own life book, which he avoids in order to be free of “spoilers.” I also want to convey the sense of confusion everyone feels at some point in relation to who they are and how they view themselves. This could be influenced by various existentialist texts such as Jean Paul Sartre’s “Nausea.”
For one of my books I intend to take adverts and other media that consistently promote oppression and conformity, and subvert them in some way so that I am questioning these messages and attacking restrictive societal gender perceptions. I will research politicised art forms and the work of artists and artist groups e.g. The Guerilla Girls, Barbara Kruger. I will start by drawing and making collaged images taken from contemporary media sources. I will also look at the relevance of photography.
I intend to use one book to explore British party politics, and in particular the two party system and the inherent lack of choice that makes many voters feel despondent, especially in lieu of the recent botched election that allowed David Cameron to become prime minister despite there being no clear winner.
For another book I would like to look at the awe of the wider universe and the way humans react to the realisation of how small, insignificant and temporary we are in the grand scheme of existence, bringing together the intense beauty of science and existence with the human fear and uneasiness that may be triggered by these thoughts and the longing to be important and meaningful within the universe. Among the inspiration for this aspect of the project will be works such as Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” and Gary Greenburg’s “sandgrains.com.”
Arthur Weasley’s Guide To Muggle Artifacts.
My 25th July zine in its entirety.
I’ve almost finished my project already! I’m up to my neck in zines.
The front cover’s font is Andes and the inside’s is Muffaroo.
I’m a starting a project called “Portrait Swap.” Basically anyone can take part (regardless of artistic ability), you send me pictures of yourself (the more the better) and I draw you, meanwhile you do the same for me (reference pictures @ http://ashdinosaur.tumblr.com/tagged/me) and we both end up with a cool picture of ourselves.
Since Tumblr is doing this silly “you can’t leave links in ask boxes” thing, you can email me at ashdinosaur[at]hotmail[dot]com if it’s easier for you. There is a way around the ask box problem though, just use brackets like I’ve just done with my email address.
Anyway if you’d like to take part, just let me know.
I made a music zine in year 11, named Orange Peel as a tribute to John Peel (and fruit).
I only made the one issue. Eight copies if I remember correctly. I gave most of them to friends and teachers, and put the few that were left inside Mojo magazines in WHSmith.
I find it quite embarrassing to look at this now, but I’d like to make a zine again.
Maybe a zine about mashed potatoes.
This book is about dreams and the way they are full of jumbled up things that often don’t make sense. I’m trying to scrapbook a sort of visual representation of that moment of confusion when you’re waking up and you can’t quite tell what’s real yet.
This is my book of blobs.
I plan to paint and draw and scrapbook over the pages later, but it’s quite nice to just have a book full of symmetrical blobs.
This was for a little project recently.
I had to make a book of some sort, and my subject was mistakes, so I scratched into these photos that had come out wrong.
