Updates On Long Road Project Artwork

Long Road Project Artwork

Today I have been finishing off the text which is on the canvas, it's a small bit of poetry that describes the walks I went of in ilam. 

The text was difficult in one way as I had to take extra care when keeping the same thickness of each letter. 

After I had painted the writing on the front of the canvas, I then produced some images using photoshop to overlap some of the photographs I took while I was on the trip. These photographs consisted of images of various signs that highlight that people are trying to control nature and the environment around them. 

After I had used these images to form a single image I used the photography printers to print them off onto a paper calmed 'lazertran'. This is a paper that will alow me to transfer an image to the canvas. 

This was extremely challenging as it required me to be extra patient because the paper is very fragile. 

This is what the canvas looks like so far: 

Now I have transferred the lazertran to the canvas I am now going to place the resin on top to form a layer where I can create an extra dimension. This is interesting as the national trust is all about preservation and that I what I am trying to convey in this piece and resin is used within the preservation process.

Richard Long Piece - Inserting Text

Inserting Text 

I have started to insert text onto the piece I am doing for the Richard Long Project. It is really interesting because I have decided to have the writing black as the background is dark and will contrast really well. 

The writing that I am placing on the canvas is relating to nature and the expedition we went to in ilam. 

This is what it reads: 

Crunching of the terrain,

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Abundance of colour,

Sound of an infant bird,

Gentle breeze,

Over a steep mound,

Shadows forming,

Time passing,

Progressing through tall grass, 

Up, down, up, down, 

One with nature! 

I have decided to paint this text on so I am having to be really careful when applying as I am following lines. 

This is what it look so Ike so far: 

Richard Long Exhibition Piece

Stage 1 - Richard Long Exhibition Piece

I started by stretching the canvas around the MDF frame. The frame that I am working with is aprox A1 size. 

With the piece drawing a connection with nature I wanted to create a background that has an earthy texture. I wanted to move away from the normal techniques when painting, for example using a brush. Therefore, I decided to paint using my hands as I wanted to use my senses to create this piece of art. 

I gathered together various acrylics that have a colour relation to nature, so the colours I got were different browns and blacks and greens. 

I used a large amount of paint in making the background as I wanted to blend the colours together to form a smooth surface. 

At first this was difficult because I haven't used my heads while painting before but I really enjoyed the notion and want to have a go at this again in further paintings! 

This  is an image of my background for the Richard Long Exhibtion piece: 

Handed everything in

I have handed everything in to be marked for the first semester assessment. Looking forward to seeing what mark I get for the pieces I have out together! 

As the next project I am working on is the long road project and it is in a couple of weeks, I am going to start producing this piece now so that I am ready for the deadline hand in. 

The piece I am working on for this project is looking at nature and how we can sometimes be seen to control the environment, a lot like the act of consumerism does to us. I am using some of the images I had taken from the retreat to the ilam where I had shot signs that we're trying to control our movements and produce a mixed media piece which carries this message about us trying to control nature although in places like ilam it says that we are one with nature and we can experience it as a whole.

Essay Seminar (Graham)

Essay Seminar
Graham

I have just had a seminar with Graham to talk about my essay so far. It was really helpful! He said that my introduction was really good and I shouldn't change any of that  but the next section talking about Tehching Hsieh is a bit confusing as I have gone off topic saying that anything can be art.
Grahams gave me quite a few artists and information I can research as he thinks I should focus more on the repetition as it has more of a connection to my own work.

These are a few of the artists that Graham has told me to have a look at:

1. JSTORE - Onkawara & Essay 'Lewitt In Progress' by Rosaland Krauss
2. Yoko Ono
3. Vito Accanci - Instruction
4. Hanne Darlaven

I am going to continue with me essay so I can get it done ready for my next tutorial next week and ready for the hand in next Friday!

Work On Essay

Essay 
More work done on essay

Last night I have been working on my essay and have managed to get another 200 words done ready for the session with graham.

This is what I have done so far with my essay:

Process can seem to be forgotten when viewing art, sometimes camouflaged behind the final outcome which is displayed in an exhibition format. Nevertheless, it is now becoming widely accepted in the art world, arranged through various mediums allowing us as artists and viewers to get a deeper insight into the stages of production.

Process was the doing not viewing, but can now deem to be defined as a finished product and an actual piece of art.

An artist named Tehching Hsieh has emerged within my practice research recently, providing me with a deeper insight into the extent that the art of process can be taken to.

(Fig 1. Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance, 1978-79, Performance, New York)

Fig 1. Displays Tehching Hsieh being consumed within a cage for one whole year doing nothing, alone with his own thoughts. This fantastic piece highlights the distance some artists go to in order to produce artwork.

The New York Times covered this piece stating ‘He built a cage from pine dowels…furnishing it with a bed, a blanket, a sink…each day the friend took a photograph of Mr. Hsieh, who had shaved his head at the beginning’ (NYT 2009).

Initial thoughts would be, could this generate the same impact as a piece such as Marcel Duchamp’s urinal which is shown within an exhibition context?

Hsieh’s piece was staged in the ‘Museum of Modern Art… from 11a.m. till 5 p.m. people could visit it like a gallery and see the work in progress’ (NYT 2009). Viewing the performance would enhance the thoughts and response to the artwork from the viewer, impacting in a way that they will be indulging themselves into the spatial aroma.

The connection between my own practice and Hsieh’s is not easy to read, this is what makes it so interesting when researching. Although I am not presenting a staged performance as of this piece, I dive into the format of repetition presented in his series of documentation.   

2nd Crit (Liz Lemon)

Crit
Liz Lemon 

During the crit we went around in groups to each others work like in the last session but discussed the work we have been producing since the last time we all met up.
I presented a couple of my pieces that I have been recently working on, these are the pieces that I had shown:

For the receipt feedback the main problem that I found as well when creating the piece is that it is not like the original. In some way the original has a better feeling about it than the reproduced pieces. One thing that I am going to do to improve this is try to dye the actual receipts in some way in order to categorize them so that it keeps its original quality.

After talking about this piece and explaining the reason behind producing these, the group gave me some ideas in which I could improve and get read to present it as a final outcome during assessment. 

These are some of the ideas the group came up with:

1. Go larger with the receipts and cover a whole studio space
2. Lost it with the reproduction of receipts, go back to the original
3. Maybe place it near shopping center to see if people notice
4. Take it away and place it in an exhibition format
5. Enlarge the receipts maybe as big as the wall

Some of the artists that I have been told to have a look at in relation to this is:

1. Christian Boltanski
2. Henry More

After looking at the receipt project I am working on I showed the group the small leaves that I am looking forward to producing for the 'Long Road Project'.

They really liked the leaf with the image printed on top as it brought up questions into how I have made them and how long it took me to do so.

I am going to keep producing these leaves with images printed on as I would like a large pile of them ready for the exhibition!