redesigning the human body project

For this i looked at reconnecting bones as a way to redesign the body.
I made bones by carving out bone like shapes into styrofoam and cast them in plaster. I choose these materials as the styrofoam is soft like the bone marrow and the plaster would create a hard enamel like the hard surface of bones.

unfortunatly the layer of plaster i coated the styrofoam in was not thick enough so it cracked in places and also if i was to do this again i would made the bones twice as big as some were to small and thin therefore easily broke.

 Upon my idea of reconnecting bones, i was also looking into how if bones were reconnected that would mean the muscles would be arranged differently in the body an therefore move differently. I had dyed string in beetroot juice ( for natual colours that would be similar to actual muscles) and intended on attaching these to the bones i created to show the new way the body would move but the bones were unfortunatly to fragile for this.

Interesting project even though it wasnt quite as a sucess as I hoped.

Hunt Museum Project

 For this project I choose to look at the porcelain vase as my source of inspiration. On further research of the vase I discovered it was what is called a tulip vase and this really facinated me so my work is based on the idea of the shape of the vase and and tulip as they have a bulbus and petal like shape. I also thought the combination of the blue and white colours of the vase interesting as it is similar to willow pattern.  I also looked into what the opposite of certain characteristics of the vase would be which is why my pieces are separte and not stuck together and are also more soft compared to the stuck together and hard apperance of the actual vase. 

Our latset project; Doll Self.

 

 

The doll had to be have our halfheight and have some aspect of ourselves. My doll is made from tights stuffed with cotton wool and dressed in my clothes. As I myself am small, I choose to emphaise how small the doll is in comparison to its surrounds. Like myself, the dolls legs do not reach the floor, it cannot reach the table as I cant reach things at a certain height, has to climb up, and as seen in the photo is halve my height which is true to life as I generally am half peoples height!



 

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.