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Using last semesters' research as a jumping off point, further exploring theory related to Formlessness...

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Since last semester Ive been thinking about my essay on Formlessness and how I was going to express some of these ideas further this semester. I began looking at the biggest rocks in our universe, planets, asteroids and the smallest rocks in our universe - dust. Cosmic dust clouds and gas form the birth place of the stars. Truly on the edge of existence.
Ive still an interest in sound, and looking at how we perceive sound might behave in space or an unreal landscape. This soundtrack is from NASA called The Song of the Earth, recorded from space by Voyager. I have mixed it with a song from 1954 called "My Prayer" I see it as perhaps this song was playing on a radio in 1954 and the voices are drifting through deep space still, maybe a little disfigured and broken along the way.

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This semester I plan to investigate formlessness in other contexts, words and language are of interest at the moment and also sculptural formlessness. As Karla Black described “sculpture on the edge of existing” I plan to experiment further with materials that I consider temporary or without form and I will be looking at how light and sound can contribute to my work in their own formlessness. I will consider how light and sound can help finish or compliment the work in terms of exhibiting.

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Unnatural landscapes - the meta verse and online life are on my mind today. How to express a comparison between the material world and the virtual? How does this fit into formlessness? Exploring further this idea….

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I’ve been thinking more about landscapes and weather, wide open spaces and pathetic fallacy. Some of my favourite films use these visual mechanisms in their cinematography…

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Even in the snow Fargo always achieved a landscape reminiscent of the spaghetti western 

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Painterly narrative appears in Fargo, showing the figure disappearing into the landscape

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The ballad of buster Scruggs Cohen Brothers 2018 

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The ballad of buster Scruggs Cohen Brothers 2018 

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I loved this film as a kid, I loved Clint Eastwood, the spaghetti western landscape was a place of fantasy. Foreign, beautiful, brutal and alien.

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I like how the figure is used for scale emphasising the size and power of the landscape

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The soundtrack to this film also is unforgettable this is the opening wide shot at the beginning of the music track

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I love that these objects work together to create a landscape, directly connected they begin to transform the space yet they’re not exactly an “installation” the sculpture and drawing compliment each other. I feel that the sculptures are architectural aswell as reminiscent of a natural landscape they could equally be representative of larger man made structures.

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I like the idea of using the material to make the work, these are rubbings taken from slate and then made into screen prints

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Again I enjoy the use of the material to make a drawing that is quite sculptural and directly related to his sculpture

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Photos I took in Cornwall last summer. Tintagel, Cornwall, 2021 

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Photos I took in Cornwall last summer. Tintagel, Cornwall, 2021 

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Cornwall 2021 The sea like the desert or the snow holds a similar image of the beautiful but potentially deadly, large changeable expanses open to the elements. Not unlike the surface of the moon or Mars perhaps. There is the potential to lose or find yourself here. 

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Cornwall 2021 The sea like the desert or the snow holds a similar image of the beautiful but potentially deadly, large changeable expanses open to the elements. Not unlike the surface of the moon or Mars perhaps. There is the potential to lose or find yourself here. 

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Max Ernst, I love his surreal landscapes and collages, the figure is often partially present

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Max Ernst 1951-2 The moon appears in his landscapes/seascapes often 

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Max Ernst 1951-2 The moon appears in his landscapes/seascapes often 

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A collage again a partial nude in a surreal sea scape maybe

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A collage again a partial nude in a surreal sea scape maybe

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Anne Hardy was recommended to me today by Jess at the studio, I found this image of "Pasific Palisades" which really intrigued me. Of course it looks like a universe and the blue drew me in immediately, saying "space" or "map" the marks which look as if they could be stars or countries on a map are actually the board showing through where tacs, nails and staples with pieces of paper have been applied then removed leaving scrapes and digs and what looks like confetti paper corners.

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This close up view of the work is quite different, im unsure of scale and there looks to be more colour, the shelf and its shadow have become more visible and now we see a pencil on a string suggesting the method of drawing a curve or a circle. The objects on the floor are further connected to dimension, space and geometry. The shelf and the propped canvas reminds us of a stage set or backdrop where we are unsure of the dimension and the reality.

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The slate was collected from the same beach I used for the print

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On the 15th jan an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean erupted causing tsunamis in Tonga, captured from satellite

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Looks like an atomic bomb mushroom cloud from above 

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Looks like an atomic bomb mushroom cloud from above 

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The smoke is billowing out of the surface of the ocean

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The smoke is billowing out of the surface of the ocean

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For my advantage module i'm doing stage lighting and sound, the play we are going to be using as an example is The Tempest - Shakespeare. Being about a storm and a desert Island it seems to fit my theme well. There was an adaptation using space as the backdrop instead of the island, the ocean and a ship; we have the alien planet, the universe and a space ship. The film version made in 2011 with Helen Mirren is true to the Shakespearian dialogue. 

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For my advantage module i'm doing stage lighting and sound, the play we are going to be using as an example is The Tempest - Shakespeare. Being about a storm and a desert Island it seems to fit my theme well. There was an adaptation using space as the backdrop instead of the island, the ocean and a ship; we have the alien planet, the universe and a space ship. The film version made in 2011 with Helen Mirren is true to the Shakespearian dialogue. 

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26/01/2022 submission to Curator Space this morning for an exhibition 

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26/01/2022 submission to Curator Space this morning for an exhibition 

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Continuing experimenting with different materials that I can use in my silicone mold I made last semester. Today I’m trying granite jesmonite. It’s backed up with fibre glass.

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Jesmonite “rocks” from the workshop today, trying two techniques- two parts to reattach. And filling each side then sealing them together in the mold while still wet. One of the best things about this material is it’s fast drying time which means I can do a couple of experiments daily verses waiting at least a day for drying when using plaster, resin or concrete.

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I really love this as a piece because of how it challenges the idea of form and sculpture. The videos are projected into the corner with the light tube helping to illuminate the clouds from below. I like seeing the equipment as part of the work. They are mushroom clouds from an explosion.

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I like the idea of an abstracted landscape/sky scape. Thater does that really cleanly and in a modern way. Nodding to the painting in their 2D landscape presentation yet made 3D by way of the standing arrangement. The colours and lights reflect the image on to the floor. The background is a colour not often seen in the sky, there is immediately something unusual about it. High visual appeal, it’s effect is calming almost seductive in aesthetic pleasure but at the same time unreal and fake. I find it bordering on sculpture and installation. I love the sense of endless space created. I could imagine the two sections spinning in place offering a different scene each spin.

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Interesting discussion from Jake Chapman. I’m researching puppets and dolls for the drawing project.

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Chapman Brothers interview (How Sick Is Your Art, 2003)

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31/01/2022More research for drawing group- Hans Bellmer 

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31/01/2022More research for drawing group- Hans Bellmer 

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This is the piece I have seen many times at the Tate modern, I used to find it quite challenging to look at but have come to really like it over time! I’m not sure if Bellmer was a frustrated serial killer or if he was speaking rather more in support of the woman and the idea of representation. Maybe I’ll never know his true intention behind these works but I enjoy them as a kind of absurd play with the figurative form. 

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This is the piece I have seen many times at the Tate modern, I used to find it quite challenging to look at but have come to really like it over time! I’m not sure if Bellmer was a frustrated serial killer or if he was speaking rather more in support of the woman and the idea of representation. Maybe I’ll never know his true intention behind these works but I enjoy them as a kind of absurd play with the figurative form. 

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01/02/2022                                     Inspired by my advantage course and the puppet project in drawing…

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01/02/2022                                     Inspired by my advantage course and the puppet project in drawing…

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I have written an adaptation of the first scene of the Shakespeare play the tempest. I’ll attach a link to the script below which uses the original dialogue but is set on a motorway in a hurricane, rather than a ship in the sea. I got the idea from watching how they had adapted it into a space themed movie and realised it could work in other ways. I have a small family of dolls and I’m going to try to create a short film using a small set which I will build cheaply. (Above is the mum doll, I realised I could use video backgrounds on my lap top but in the future can use projections to help give a realistic world to my unreal dolls)

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I tried filming from inside the toy car using the video back ground 

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I tried filming from inside the toy car using the video back ground 

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02/02/2022 Sketchbook sketches for puppet project, inspired by Hans Bellmer and Louise bourgeoise 

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02/02/2022 Sketchbook sketches for puppet project, inspired by Hans Bellmer and Louise bourgeoise 

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I edited some photographs of the mum doll, looking at lighting 

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I edited some photographs of the mum doll, looking at lighting 

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Experimenting with backgrounds for the dolls 

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Experimenting with backgrounds for the dolls 

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I’m thinking that the drawings I make from the puppet I’m making this week might be a good subject for etching. Pic shows smoking of the etching plate in preparation for the etching

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02/02/2022—Link to HURRICANE by me- a script for a short film adaptation of Act 1, The Tempest by William Shakespeare (intended for the dolls to animate)

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02/02/2022—Link to HURRICANE by me- a script for a short film adaptation of Act 1, The Tempest by William Shakespeare (intended for the dolls to animate)

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In my version of The Tempest, I have exchanged the hostile landscape of the ocean for the potentially similar empty, rainy motorway at night. 

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In my version of The Tempest, I have exchanged the hostile landscape of the ocean for the potentially similar empty, rainy motorway at night. 

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03/02/2022 One of my favourite book adaptations by Charlie Kauffman based on the book by Iain Reid, much of the story happens in the car in a snowy landscape. There are also multiple references to the film Oklahoma! 

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03/02/2022 One of my favourite book adaptations by Charlie Kauffman based on the book by Iain Reid, much of the story happens in the car in a snowy landscape. There are also multiple references to the film Oklahoma! 

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We met him at Fargo on our student explorations on Tuesday, I realised I had listened to his music before. He’s known as funki porcini and has been producing music for years, was associated with ninja tunes, I would describe his sound as trip hop beats with jazz and electro influences with an ambient feel. He’s in Coventry on Saturday night so I will try to see his show. His music speaks of the landscapes I have been looking at, space, light and sound.

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Designing the Stop-Motion Sets of Aardman Animation's Early Man!

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07/02/2022 - Brutal Beauty - Jean DuBuffet

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07/02/2022 - Brutal Beauty - Jean DuBuffet

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Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty - Curator Tour

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For puppet project inspired by Hans Bellmer and The Chapman Bros. 

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For puppet project inspired by Hans Bellmer and The Chapman Bros. 

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Jan Svankmajer This film was banned for a long time due to its communist message, which I struggled to read. Although the symbolism is there I feel perhaps this would be more familiar to those living at that time and after watching a couple of times I understand the general themes of consumption, domination and what looks like cultural or political destruction, information control and domination and I see at the end the heads becoming all the same, copies like a factory of heads. This all sort of makes sense to me but I still wouldn't have been able to connect the political significance of the time. 

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Jan Svankmajer This film was banned for a long time due to its communist message, which I struggled to read. Although the symbolism is there I feel perhaps this would be more familiar to those living at that time and after watching a couple of times I understand the general themes of consumption, domination and what looks like cultural or political destruction, information control and domination and I see at the end the heads becoming all the same, copies like a factory of heads. This all sort of makes sense to me but I still wouldn't have been able to connect the political significance of the time. 

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Svankmajer portrays the brutality of childhood, both acknowledging the cruelty of children and the cruelty routinely inflicted on the child during childhood. Using these familiar themes he removes nostalgia and sentimentality, he creates the uncanny. 

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Svankmajer portrays the brutality of childhood, both acknowledging the cruelty of children and the cruelty routinely inflicted on the child during childhood. Using these familiar themes he removes nostalgia and sentimentality, he creates the uncanny. 

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I really like the way the “real” film is combined with the animated film, also I like as Svankmajer comments in the film he animates real objects, this definitely conjures a feeling of the uncanny and surreal. There is something art brut about his films, often referring to the animalistic and brutal nature of childhood, the home and the family. The stylistic shots adding to this idea of the charming but ugly, sweet but sour, real and un real worlds, very much like a dark fairy tale world. It seems completely appropriate he should use Lewis Carrolls' poem Jaberwocky which famously incorporates nonsense verse.

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09/02/2022- intro to etching, first attempt 

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09/02/2022- intro to etching, first attempt 

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First print- experimenting with line, cross hatching and removing the wax ground with white spirit to gain different textures 

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First print- experimenting with line, cross hatching and removing the wax ground with white spirit to gain different textures 

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I saw this on my way home yesterday

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