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Although both videos were edited in a very similar way this lung piece was heavily inspired by the feelings of anxiety so although I did keep that same element of creating a heartbeat I also made the sound very irregular this was to create a feeling of unease and to reflect the irregular heartbeat that you feel when anxiety is present.

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Although this is where I could've never guessed to get inspiration from I was heavily inspired by the YouTube channel 'how to basic' which I discovered back in 2014. It is a comedy channel but the way the videos are executed is where I took inspiration from in my lung piece. For contexts their videos are extremely fast paced showing food being quickly chucked around everywhere, I picked up on the fact that this effect was done by cutting short clips Close to each other, I believe I succeeded in creating this effect in my own work.

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Taking inspiration from the surrealist film'Un Chien Andalou' I made sure to edit this video is a quick and sudden way. I've done this by cutting each clip into small sections and speeding the clips up as the film went on this gave a chopped effect which I feel had a bigger impact on the viewer in terms of how the film made them feel. From feedback many told me that this piece made them understand what it felt like as they could feel the anxiety and frustration that I was trying to convey.

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As you can see I edited the sound in a way that resembled a heartbeat I done this by repeating sound twice every few seconds this proceeded to get faster and faster matching the visuals of the heart being squeezed on screen.

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I believe my editing skills have developed through this project as a big focus someone was to ensure the audio matched the visuals I done this by syncing sound to the video. For example every time I was trying to put the heart back together I added the sound of the heart hitting the floor this created an intense effect.

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For this exhibition I already had ideas on what topics I wanted to say I knew I wanted to display these topics through video as it is currently my favourite way to communicate ideas. I took inspiration from the surrealist film on 'Un Chien Andalou'. Although I knew my work wasn't going to have a surrealist effect I wanted it to leave the same impression that this film left for me which was a in some ways disturbed feeling but also left me intrigued by what this film was truly about this led me to do a lot of thinking to try and understand it, I was hoping the viewer would have the same reaction to my video piece.

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To ensure as many people as possible came to see our exhibition we decided to make an Instagram account to promote it however I found the best way to spread the word was by telling friends, this then meant that a fair amount of people showed up to our exhibition during the course of the two days.

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As we now had all the information like the dates, the location and the group name we could now start focusing on the leaflets for the fete to promote our exhibition. We each wrote down ideas and started to make drafts which we sent into the group chat until we came up with our final outcome.
We chose three designs to present in the form of posters and leaflets which people could take.

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From the beginning we were lucky enough to have a rough idea of where our exhibition was going to take place this was because Iris who was in my group had connections to a space that's priority was to support artists.
For a while we were in the unknown as we were struggling to find a date that works for our group as well as the people who own the space but eventually a date was set and we could start planning how we wanted to precent our exhibition.

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In the end we came up with the perfect name 'nature subconscious terrain' this was one that we all fitted into and liked.

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at first we focused on finding the perfect name for this group project for creating art, this was to ensure that we knew the theme and stuck to it. Although this did become a problem in someway as we wanted this name to not be limiting but still relate to all of our interests, this meant we didn't start creating art straight away which I feel would have been a better option.

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Our very first step was to write down keywords that related to our interests and our art practice this insured that we were all on the same page when it came to what we wanted this project to revolve around I believe this is where I realised i had found the right group of people to create art that I enjoyed doing and related to my usual topics and mediums.

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In terms of making this group come together we all got to know many people and their interests in terms of art practice this is where I met Petra Maya Lei and Iris. We discovered that we all share the same interest in film work and we all had the same ideas on what we wanted our exhibition space to look and be like. Not only this but we also were all passionate about healing in many different ways including with nature.

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interesting similarity's between meditation, breath work and plant medicine visuals, all practices which connect you to a high state of awareness.

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A1 Acrylic Painting Of Visuals Experienced During Breathing Exercise

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A1 Acrylic Painting Of Visuals Experienced During Breathing Exercise

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A old friend once told me that you start running when you want to stop, the more you fight against the voice telling you you can’t do it, the quieter that voice gets, I decided to carry on for a bit longer even though my body and mind felt like I couldn’t go anymore.

It felt liberating

And although my body couldn’t stop shaking I felt peace

Nothing was right of wrong I was just present and no problems exist here

I once read that when your body goes into survival mode your ego disappears along with all un serving  thoughts, the only thing that mattered is surviving I guess that’s where the saying “the closer you are to death the more alive you feel” comes from.

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Veiwing this piece I was in-captivated by the visuals but more importantly the sound that went along with it. this piece allowed me to appreciate the importance od sound in this style of art. I will continue to use sound in my work and I hope to move onto creating my own audio with, my voice, singing bowls, and other instruments that feel appropriate.

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This short video shows a experience I had while meditating. for this session I was much closer to the singing bowls then previous sessions and I noticed this different effect this had. I was able to to feel and hear the sound/vibration more intensely. I could feel the energy going in one ear, bouncing across the perimeter of my brain and floating out the other ear. I began to translate this sensation as the unblocking and releasing of stagnant energy, this was a very healing experience for me and I hope to betray that though this video. I will continue to experiment with ways to allow the viewer to exsperience a similar feeling.

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while visiting the white cube gallery I came across Sarah Morris. Means Of Escape exhibition and I was drawn in by the bright colours and and patterns, fascinated how although this was made with block colours it looked so fragile. looking at my padlock now I see how subconsciously everything has a effect as I went to this exhibition before creating the piece to the right and I see a similarity in the webbed-like structure.

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singing bowls and gong visual translation. Acrylic  on A1 paper 

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singing bowls and gong visual translation. Acrylic  on A1 paper 

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during my most recent meditation session a variety of instruments were used which began to fill my vision with colours and as the new instruments were introduced during the session, new forms were layering on top of the previous visuals from the sounds I was hearing. Here you see the colours of 2 different singing bowls with my interpretation of the sound of a gong on top. To take this vision further I will be adding some more sounds, visually to the piece and I'll play around with projection to create an immersive experience.

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This piece was inspired by my first sound bath meditation. With my eyes closed and my body fully relaxed I began to float into a black void, as the sounds of beads crashing filled my ears I saw sparkling colours float around my body, these sparkles then became swirling lights when the singing bowls came in. These beams intwined through my body. Originally the painting was meant to portray this vision but I found the video was more effective at getting across.

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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones. That Which Binds Us.

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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones. That Which Binds Us.

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I went to The White Cube Gallery to get some inspiration and I saw Tunji Adeniyi-Jones recent exhibition: That Which Binds Us. These pieces were created with the intention to present the human form freed from the specifics of time and place and that is very similar to what happens to me during the meditation. I am inspired by this piece specifically because the human figures make up the space while still being imurged in it. I would like to exsperiment with giving similar effect through projection onto the human form or using the body as a canvas itself.

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I felt the best way to go about this meditation research project would be too experience it first hand. I have been attending these weekly, 45 minute meditations which are guided by sounds like singing bowls, gongs, charms, mantras. These sound baths can lead you into a very pure state and I have noticed that if I go in deep enough I start to see colours moving in a particular way, once I noticed that it was the sound which created these visuals I began to focus in on it, making the visions stronger. I would like to try and re create the things I see in a physical mediam to allow the viewer into my mind. As an end goal I am thinking of creating a installation space which allows the audience to experience the meditative state, I believe the best way to do this is by researching what sounds and sights trigger that element of the human body while also going off my own experience.

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For my research project I have chosen the starting point as meditation as it has recently become a big part of my life and I'm intruiged into learning more about the way it effects the brain while also translating the visions I have while meditating into physical form.

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this work was shown to me during Andrew's lecture and I found what Andrew had to say about this work interesting. He explained that the actual process of walking was part of the art due to the many thought processes you have on the walk which get triggered by the things you encounter along the way. I really liked this idea and now every time I go on a walk I look at it as an art form, this means I stay in the creative thinking mode, allowing me to pick up on things I may not have done before.

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This unit was all about working collaboratively so for our first group peice we split up into twos and documented our surrounding in whatever way we wished. my partner and I decided to write a small poem about how the natural elements of the city blended in with the man made, focusing specifically on trees and lamp posts. we then all came back together as a group to display our documentation in a collage format on the wall.

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When going on this walk with Holly and Ruuting, we had the subject of 'instinct' in our mind. We walked around London to get some ideas flowing but we wanted to make sure this walk was purely done on instinct so we had no plan of where we were going, we just went where our subconscious mind wanted us too, we documented this walk by using a app which tracked the journey we took.

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from the walk we gathered materials we found along the way and each drew the journey we took on the map. I had a coffee during this trip so I wanted to make the coffee present in our collection.

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For this group work we each brought in a qoate that we liked, and digital junk, we looked at how our different recourses could collect and made this large collage on the studio wall, at first we were just having fun with it and getting used to working together but towards the end I felt there was a clear meaning behind this work. To me it strongly represents how all of our paths are crossing with each other in this moment.

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This was the inspiration when it came to the structure of our rope sculpture. I like the strong presence this piece has and I feel we were able to capture this same feeling with our own version, especially with it being in the centre of the studio.

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I found making zines collaboratively much more effective than making them independently as everyone had brought in materials which meant there was much more to work with, I had never made zines prior to this and I found it a really useful way to stick down scrap stuff from the project, I feel I will do this more often in projects so nothing goes to waste.

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‘Blowtorching the bitten peach” by Heather Phillipson

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‘Blowtorching the bitten peach” by Heather Phillipson

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As we all found the sound scape and projection effective in Heather Phillipson's work we had the idea that we wanted to incorporate that in our work. This is a shortened version of the film we shot on my camcorder and projected onto the studio wall for our exhibition. we all came to a agreement that we wanted to scream into the river thames to release stagnant energy, so we walked silently to the river allowing us to fully think about what we wanted to release when we were there.

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We ended up arranging the materials gathered from the walk into a spiral, this has a similar feel to the land art movement but to me it represents the flow of energy that was released into the river thames.

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I came across this artist in one of Andrews lectures. Orozco rolled plastisine along the street allowing the textured ground to leave a imprint, the plasticine ball was a  metaphor for the human form and I thought this was a really nice way to express how our environments can help mould and shape us. I will be taking this idea further into unit 2 but for now it reminded me of how we left our screams in the river thames so not only does the environment shape us but we shape the environment.

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the exhibition was received very well, many people said it reminded them of a ritual and it made me think that whole whole process was done in a ritual manner, it was about letting go and allowing nature to take the flow of our stagnant energy away. if I was to do this again I would make the exhibition more interactive so the viewer could also feel like they were on this journey with us, maybe this could be done by spreading the leaves out across the studio floor so the viewers could feel and hear the crunch of them themselves or the video could be filmed in a way where it looks like you are looking through a pair of eyes.

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In our walk we collected a variety of materials bringing the outside inside. we then all worked together to come up with a final outcome that we all agreed with. I feel like our group worked together effectively as everyone was sharing their opinion on what they thought would look best so we tried out all ideas to then decide if we agreed or disagreed until we came to the final outcome.

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To make this installation exhibition more interactive we set up a space which had all of our work we had made leading up to the exhibition where the viewers could sit-down and flip through our zines.