Evaluation

Overall I think that this project was a success, I am happy with the final outcome of the three chairs, but if I did have more time I would of probably made more of the chairs but keeping to the antique designs that I have stuck to with in the duration of my project.
One thing I may have changed depending on the time is the materials that I used, I would have tried to use a variety of other materials such as wood, other metals etc., this would then create a greater variation between the chairs.

This project did not go any further than research due to the fact that I struggled for any ideas, I started by looking  for artists work and ideas for inspiration, but due to the lack of time I focused on my other projects.

Evaluation

I have decided not to continue with this project the reason being the push for time to complete it and also my ideas didn't really kick of from where I left them. If I did have more time then I probably would have definitely stuck with trying to record shadows at different times of the day, looking at a variety of ways I could have done that such as photography.

Final piece

My 100 images of chewing gum were each individually cropped and resized to a reasonable size. Each photo was checked that the lighting was correct and adjusted accordingly. I decided to crop each photo square as I have put them altogether to create a large square piece consisting of all 100 photos.

Final chairs

I have decided to make a small velvet cushion for each of the chairs to display them and also photograph them, this I feel will make them look much more vintage and antique which is what I was looking to create. I also think think that when they are photographed they will almost look like proper chairs and almost something that is not practical to wear unless the cushion is removed.

These are my three final chairs which have been photographed using the little black cushions I have made 

copper chairs

I have created my final three chairs in the metal workshop. 

Instead of using the aluminium wire I have used copper, this is because i would not of been able to weld or solder to aluminium together which is possible with copper. I have spot welded the wire back rest of the chair to the base as it would be a lot more precise for what I am creating. 

 As you can see the wire is a bronze colour and the band is a silver colour. As I am trying to create antique style chairs I will spray paint each chair to make is look more grand and to give a more finished look. 

chair experiment

I have created a prototype of a chair that can be worn as jewellery, I have used aluminium wire to make all parts of the chair and designed the back rest of the chair keeping in mind the antique designs I have been looking at.

As you can see I have twsited the wire to form the shape of the chair and also wrapped the legs around the base of the chair. These when made will be worn on the upper arm to create bangle.

Antique chairs

After researching I have become inspired by the work of Pablo Reinoso and have had a few ideas on how I can develop my work. I have be looking at creating jewellery that can be worn on the arm which is in the shape of the chair using different materials. 


Initially I have started to look at antique chairs and the different design there are and how the shapes of the chairs vary. 

What I love about antique chairs is the elaborate designs that are used and also the rich colours used as like in the picture above. After looking after the different styles of the chairs I think I will definitely be going along this path to create my final piece.

Final idea

I decided I wanted to take photos of chewing gum in different settings and i wanted to focus on the textures that the chewing would be placed on and also the angle of the chewing gum was positioned, I also wanted to concentrate on the angle that the photograph was taken as to create more focus on the chewing gum itself.

Also after looking at the advertisements of chewing, I decided that in a way I almost wanted to advertise the chewing gum and make them the main focus in each photo.
Here are some examples of the photos I took.

With the photos i took of the chewing gum, I tried to create many different styles of taking the photos, so i took some with a depth of field; I zoomed in closely to the gum in some and zoomed further out in others to create a contrast between all the photos. I thought very carefully about each individual photo, and the angle it would lay at and how it would be situated. 

I also wanted the final piece and each individual photo to look like an advertisement for the chewing gum, as obviously in each photo it is the main focus 

Wood

For the wood workshop we had to create a scaled down version of a machine used in the 3d room, we created a version of the drilling machine.
Firstly we had measure each part of the machine, then scale each part down to a sixth of the original size. we had to cut each piece to the correct size and attach them together.

initial ideas

I took much inspiration from the artist Michael Neff. I love the fact that once the shadow itself disappears that shadow outline will still be there.

I have been experimenting with my own art and photos trying to create my own ways to record shadows as they move according to the time of day.

chewing gum advertisements

I have looked at various pictures of chewing gum advertisements to see how the differ, and look at the styles they use and they way they photograph them.

initial ideas

My initial idea was to create a flip book of chewing gum, where I would take a photo of a pack of gum and gradually take the piece of gum out making sure that I photographed it each time I moved it. Which would then result in me having many photos very slightly different to each other which I would of placed together to form a book which could then be flipped which would create the effect that the chewing gum was moving.

Here I experimented by taking photos of the chewing gum at different stages of pulling the chewing gum out of the packet.

Here is another way i tried of taking photos of the chewing gum of different stages of it breaking up as if it had been chewed.

I have decided against this idea it would not flow as well as I liked as a flip book, this is because I would want to use the gum itself as well as the packet. This I found would be alot trickier than I thought and would not flow as well as I liked

Workshops

Casting

Display

Make or design something which unfolds, opens out,or spreads out.

ISAAC SALAZAR 

Isaac Salazar creates three-dimensional works of art out of recycled books. The artist carefully folds each
page to resemble symbols and words. 

"My inspiration comes from multiple things and places. I can browse the used book section for titles that stand out to me. For example the recycle symbol was created on a book titled "A World with out Trees". 

Image

Photograph 100 pieces of chewing gum, display them in a way that removes them from their original setting and re arranges them by form, relationship or something else.


BEN WILSON

Many streets in England have been littered with chewing gum stuck to pavements, leaving it awful to look at and clean up and Britain spends £150 million annually cleaning chewing gum from pavement.

Ben Wilson started experimenting with occasional chewing-gum paintings in 1998, and in October 2004 began doing them full time. He has created more than 10,000 of these works on pavements all over the UK and parts of Europe. Wilson transforms gum that everyday people leave behind on the streets in to art.

He scours the streets looking for nothing but gum which is obviously old, he then heats it up with a burner and lacquers it which hardens the gum and creates a surface which he can paint on with acrylic paint, and he then adds another layer of lacquer on top of the paint. Applying this to the gum beforehand allows it to stay on longer and become a permanent street presence.

STEPHEN GILL

Stephen Gill is a British photographer and after looking at his work there was one piece in particular that I liked called a series of disappointments.

In this piece he used many betting slips, scrunched and twisted to from many shapes. 

"Each of these papers began as hope, were shaped by loss or defeat, and then cast aside. These new forms perhaps now possess a state of mind, shaped by nervous tension and grief. After these images were made, little autopsies were performed on the papers to reveal failed bets held within."

I love the simplicity if these photos and how each is photographed in the same way with the same background.even though the photographers are simple there is a lot of meaning behind them.

Context

'A small print on a mailbox becomes something really precious when you remove all the noise around it and isolate it from it's setting.' ( Merel Karhof, Project two). Explore familiar or alien surroundings by isolating, documenting and displaying anything you think will create a new awareness of the landscape.


For this project I decided to look at shadows around Bournville, the different shapes they cast and how they change and move as time goes by. I started by tracing shadows that had been cast on the ground  e.g. bins, trees, gates, buildings. After doing these I decided I wanted to trace then on a bigger scale as they were too small and I wanted a larger impact to be made, so i traced a shadow of a large tree.
I wanted to take them from there original place and put them in a different setting, which is why a placed the large shadow of the tree in the middle of the room on the floor. This meant that people could either walk around it or over it which would make it feel as if it was real shadow cast.

I chose to continue this project from the field guide and take it further.




MICHAEL NEFF

Michael Neff, a NYC street artist, decided to shadows that many outside objects make to create street art. Michael only uses chalk and stone sediment to outline the shadows into stencils looking like figure. The rule that Neff uses for his work is that the shadow or the empty space where the shadow was has to catch someone’s eye.

I believe that this simple art creates such a large impact to observers as shadows aren’t usually seen and noticed as something spectacular and unique.

“As for why I chose chalk, I have been interested in graffiti for a long time. I used to photograph Shepard Fairy’s wheatpaste and sticker work as far back as 1998. I knew that working in the street was going to equate me with graffiti and street art but I didn’t feel pressure to use spray paint. In fact, I recognized that a lot of the best shadows fell on buildings. People’s homes. And I didn’t want to deface people’s homes. I wanted to share something beautiful and surprising. And if someone didn’t like it they could wash it away or wait for it to rain. The photograph is an important part of the work so the fact that the drawing is very fugitive doesn’t bother me. In fact, I think it’s great when people tell me they’ve run across the drawings in person. There haven’t been that many and they don’t last very long so that is a special experience.”

I love the way that his work is very simplistic but creates such an impact to the people who look at it, another aspect of his work that I like is that he creates his work in public places, this makes people stop and think about what the artists was thinking when creating these traces of shadows as they would not have been noticed as just a normal shadow.

Object

Wear a chair

Different ways a chair can be represented

Pablo Reinoso

Pablo Reinoso, an artist and furniture designer, adapts the traditional aesthetics of antique chair designs to create unique works of wood art and fashion.

Here is a wooden dress which is meant to look like a part of a chair. The chair bottom has been flipped backward, the back has been elongated and the central structure forms a kind of skirt. Even though there is a limit to how useful and comfortable these pieces are, it makes you think about how you can take an everyday item and use it in a completely new context which then inspires you to think about the use of it in its new context. 


I particularly like his work as I love the way he has adapted the chair and the different parts of it so that you can actually wear it to some extent, still keeping the original forms of a chair. I also like the fact that you can tell that each one of his designs is part of a chair as he as positioned the parts as if you were actually sitting down on a chair.

Field Guide Project

' A small print on a mailbox becomes something really precious when you remove all the noise around it and isolate it from it's setting.' (Merel karhof, Project 2). Explore familiar or alien surroundings by isolating, documenting and displaying anything you think will create a new awareness of the landscape.

For this project I decided to look at shadows around Bournville, the different shapes they cast and how they change and move as time goes by. I started by tracing shadows that had been cast on the ground  e.g. bins, trees, gates, buildings. After doing these I decided I wanted to trace then on a bigger scale as they were too small and I wanted a larger impact to be made, so i traced a shadow of a large tree.
I wanted to take them from there original place and put them in a different setting, which is why a placed the large shadow of the tree in the middle of the room on the floor. This meant that people could either walk around it or over it which would make it feel as if it was real shadow cast.