sculpture this week is great fun, for it i'm investigating the effect of melting on plastic.

For the print elective our project was on urban so I was looking at the urban enviornment and how the constant building and re-building is destroying the enviornment.  

The photo I was working from.

 

Finally, in my last week I got to go into the pinhole camera demonstration. I learned the whole principal of how the photograph is created and how to actually make a pinhole camera. I learned about exposures and also how to develop the photographs and create photograms. Since my most recent work has been based n photograph I decided to finish of my project with images I took of different shared spaces with the pinhole camera. I love the contrast of the black and white, i gives the image an eerie effect.

Following on from my photos of the lockers and studos it got me thinking enclosed spaces. So I took photos of the doors and the corridor inside my apartment block as they are private spaces but they are shared spaces as more than one person occupy each apartment.

I got a board and then stuck the photos into it and recreated the corridor.

I placed my piece against a white wall and photgraphed it as I thought this would make it look better, it gives it a better sence of depth and space.

 I decided to experiment with different effects on the photoghraph to create more errie images.

A photo of a students work in the ceramic disiple show in aportfolio on the day of the ceramics workshop which I greatly enjoyed. I loved this piece of work as the creature in the centre is extreamily intresting with its unusual and inaginative features. I alo like the pattern of the different marks in the background, their plainness highlights the creativeness of the creature.

 I love these pieces as they have unusual shapes.

 The kiln where the ceramic pieces are "fired" ie dried out.

Having seen the ceramics i was very interested in trying out some 3D work. I decided to cast a coffee cup and my keys as they are items with are permanently within m space and indeed everyone else's space; however my attempt at casting the coffee cup did not go well. on my first attempt, I accidentely got plaster stuck within the space underneath the cup which meant I wouldn't be able to remove it and it was necessary to do so to fill the mold and complete the cast. my second attempt, the layer of clay I made an layer over the first half of the mould did not set right; half was still extreamally wet but half was extreamally dried out as it was to thinly applied in that articular area, This meant I couldnt make the second half of the mould as the plaster would stick to the other half and then I would not be able to fill the inside and create the cast.

My cast of the keys, which I thought turned out pretty cool.

 My set of photographs of inside locker doors.
Following on from my sketchs of inside my locker as part of my space within shared space I decided to  continue on and look at others use their space within a shared spaced.

A little 3D piece I made on the lockers.

More sketches of my space:

  My studio space

My locker

The space inside my locker filled with my stuff.

The space I have in the shared cuboard in my apartment.

Painting of the items on my windowsill
 and chalk pastel image of the items on my                                                                                                                                                                                                windowsill