I chose to interpret this prompt by drawing various locations around where I live or that mean something to me.

Our frontage had to be as close as to A1 (594 x 841mm) as we could get it and also had to include moving elements such as windows/ doors that open or something that appears/ disappears or pops up.

Things we had to consider while making our frontage:

It must be portable - we made it almost entirely out of cardboard which is very lightweight so our frontage could be moved.

Do you need a counter balance/ supports for you frontage? - we created the porch with the intention of using it as a counter balance for the house and used layers of cardboard to support the house and prevent it from bending and keep it upright

After we realised Yura had stuck the window on upside down, we discussed a group on what to do but eventually decided to keep it because it helped the structure feel more like a haunted house with something not quite right about it like our inspiration, Monster House.

Assemble the parts you collected into a characterful cyborg.

Ring: I was given this ring while on holiday when I was younger

Keyring: I bought this keyring while on a history trip to Germany and my friend has a matching one

Necklace: A birthday present from when I was five and had just moved into my new house, the postbox is for my parent's job at the post office.

Leafeon figure: I grew up with my siblings playing Pokémon and I still enjoy the franchise

Clay goose: Geese and ducks are some of my favourite animals

Why might you create a piece of artwork about yourself?

• process events in your life

• find others who relate to you/ your troubles

• intuitive - no right or wrong answer

Why might someone want to recreate themselves?

• self esteem/ confidence boost

How does changing the scale adjust how we see ourselves?

• make problems feel smaller - on top of the world

• represent how something makes us feel - big problems amke you feel small

Suggestions: Brushing your teeth, eating breakfast, going on a walk, cooking, watching youtube, chatting to friends, etc.

Using the photograph of your head design the rest of your body. You could draw around yourself, include drawings, photos, collages of items and objects that represent you. Consider how you can incorporate the objects in interesting ways and how you could play with scale or shape. Do not worry about accuracy, structure or perfection, have fun and go with what feels right for you.

Place yourself into your small box(s), take pictures of your big outcome and rescale it and turn it into a match box size sculpture. It could also be placed into a small tin or trinket box you have brought in. Include further drawings and photos of the items you have brought in and the objects which represent you, but this time miniature.

While my robot has strayed significantly from my original plan, I think that this version is an improvement as it has a clearer purpose that is communicated through its design. I do regret mostly using tape and hot glue to connect the pieces of my robot together but given the lack of materials and time constraints, using these methods was the most realistic and allowed me to finish this project in time.

This was an interesting way of exploring scale because it was also simplifying or scaling down the level of detail

Part 1: Pattern making

Using unconventional ways of mark making, create at least 20 patterns using ink inspired by your documentation of this weekend. You may copy visual shapes or use your imagination to describe your timescale.

Duck

Dress code: trousers, steel toe boots, long hair tied back. No jewellery, false nails, or loose clothing

When studying a subject we should consider:

• environment

• language

• culture

• maker

• history

• economics

• gender

• your preconceptions

• your opinions/ first reaction

• politics

• client

These factors are what informed the piece even if the creator/s were not fully aware of it.

Our research must include:

• our opinion

• pictures of what we're researching

• a Harvard reference

• expert opinion

• makers' comment

Harvard refernce format:

Author/originator, (date), Title: subtitle, Publisher, City

Author/originator, (date), Title: subtitle, Publisher, available at: URL accessed, (date)

Referencing is saying where you found the information. We must cite our sources of information to prove that our information is reliable to use to inform our work. If we cannot find a source, do not use the content.

I could use this in my own project by experimenting with photography to make a large object like a building appear much smaller in comparison to a small object like a plastic duck.

I could explore this idea in my project by painting waterscapes which could also link to my research on fear and scale and thalasophobia or the fear of deep water. It also links to scale because of how the tiny water droplet has been enlarged on the screen.

Overall, walking around the room felt refreshing and calming, Xa's use of colour and form is inspiring and visually appealing. To take inspiration from her work for my project, I could consider my use of colour in relation to the emotional impact I want my piece to have.

Aesthetically, I enjoy Sami's paintings, they feel similar to the idea of calm before the storm and also as if the meaning behind them is lingering just out of reach, inviting the viewer to look for longer to figure it out. His pieces will be interpreted differently by everyone as our perception is influenced by our own memory and experiences.

To take inspiration from his work, I would like to consider how I can push the material I work with to create stunning pieces with intricate details and hidden meaning.

To take inspiration from Kalu's illustrations, I could consider my use of colour and form and the different ways I can represent an object and work in a more abstract style while still allowing myself to care about the finer details.

To take inspiration from Kalu's sculptures, I could work in 3D and make an abstract sculpture based on my research and experiment more with colour.

Modern: 1850 - 1950

Definitions and examples:

Baroque

Highly decorative, flashy and decadent, it is design to cause awe and show off.

Mostly used for architecture

Example: Palace of Versailles.

The Aesthetic Movement

Highly symbolic, compositional, includes classical buildings and a sea or landscape

Example: Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

Rococo

Sometimes used alongside Baroque

Compositional paintings designed to create a fantasy or a feeling of timelessness, romantic, risqué, French, opulent

Mostly used for paintings

Ukiyo-e

Printed and distributed, explores pleasure - drinking, eating, having fun

Picturesque and The Sublime

Exaggeration, more dramatic than it would appear in real life, painting to express what you can't say with words, focus on the emotion behind a scene

Example artists: William Turner and Henry Fuseli

Romanticism

Landscapes, spiritual

Example: Wanderer Above the Mists

Synthetism

Experimenting with colour

Nihong Painting

Delicate, focus on intricate details

Example:

Art Nouveau

Flowing, organic, ivy

Architecture - entrances to the Paris Metro

Examples: Alfons Mucha 1898

German Expressionism

Emotional, at its peak around WWI and WWII, influential

British Modern Art

Emotions and feelings, challenges expectations

Example: Paul Nash

Harlem Renaissance

Art, music and literature

Abstraction

Originated in Russia, observation, deconstruction of art, what does it mean to create art and how can you pant it

De Stijl

Deconstruction, similar to Bauhaus

Abstract Expressionism

Examples:

Jackson Pollock - performance, record of movement

Willem de Kooning - vaguely depicting something

Mark Rothko - formless, experience, colour

Royal Society: founded 1660 - focus on science, observation and philosophy and art made around this time reflects this

19th Century

Nicephore Niepce

Charles Darwin

Science, controversy, revolution of new ideas and technological developments

Modern - Relating to the era of modernity, around 1919 - 1989

Contempory - belonging to the present, following modern ideas and trends

The start of Modern Art - Artists visited the stolen artifacts and art in museums and made work inspired by them

Renaissance: 1400 - 1600CE

The Medieval period had a very religious society and a complicated relationship between the rulers and Christianity

Medieval Art:

Common iconography of religious figures and stories that were well known at the time, guilding, Medieval cities, fashion and text, the drapery/ fabrics are painted similar to a scrunched up piece of paper

Northern/ German Renaissance: 1432 - 1588

Moving away from religious art, artists were commissioned by the rich

The art made during this period was darker and involved more death, printing/ mass production of books began using wooden blocks

The Gutenberg Bible (1456), the first book in the west to be printed, 2 versions were made - 1 version printed on vellum which was expensive and the other was printed on paper which was cheaper

Southern/ Italian Renaissance: 1427 - 1527

The separation between Medieval and Renaissance art can be seen with how they represent 3D space. The Renaissance had a focus on observation and studying their subject and this is shown through the artists' use of perspective.

Fresco

Painting onto wet plaster/ directly onto the wall using watercolours

Michelangelo

Commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel with stories and scenes from the Bible

Drawing became a more important and common practice for artist as paper became cheaper

Artists worked in studios with apprentices

Venetian Mannerism: 1453 - 1577

Showing off wealth and skill with busy painting

Middle East 14th - 15th century

Calligraphy, religious symbolism, calculations for solar and lunar eclipses, astrolabe - a compass and way of telling the time

China 14th - 15th century

Art on scrolls, telling a story or creating an experience for the viewer as the scroll is unrolled

CE - Common Era

Paleolithic: 40000 - 18000BCE

Petroglyphs of animals as a form of reverence or celebration, in fire light, the animals look like they're moving

Spear thrower - decorated tool for hunting, spiritual

Art was made on portable objects

Gobekli Tepe: 9500BCE - 8000BCE

Similar age to stone henge, animal carvings celebrating animals they hunted

Egyptian: 3200BCE - 30BC

Nebamun and his cat hunting birds in the marshes c.1360BC

Tutankhamun's Gold Throne c.1336BC

Bust of Nefertiti 1352 - 1336BC

Greco-Roman/ Classical: 510BC- 106AD

Parthenon, Firenze 422 - 438BC

Statues were painted but the paint has faded over time

Garden scene from Prima Porta c.20BC

Use of aerial perspective

Terracotta Army

From the tomb complex of the First Emperor of Quin 210BCE, life size warriors, chariots and horses

Northern Nomad 800BCE - 500 CE

Romans start leaving Britain around 400CE, Rome falls 476CE

Post Roman/ Medieval: 410 - 1066

Sutton Hoo - Anglo Saxon Burial Ship

In this workshop, we were introduced to the different areas and tools we could use and then given a piece of wire to bend and cut before taking it to the welding station and welding it to a thin piece of metal.

I decided to try make a cartoonish space rocket with a star to link to the theme of scale by representing something large as much smaller than it actually is.

This workshop will be useful for a future project if I want to work with stronger metals to create a sculpture however I do not think it fits with where I want to take this project.

Shipwrecks, sea mines, statues, animatronics, old buildings, buoys, chains and underwater debris.

This links to my theme of scale because of how our brains can turn something relatively small into something to be feared.

This fear can be caused by:

Skyscrapers, large animals, expansive spaces, large ships, aeroplanes and large bodies of water

The trigger for this fear varies from person to person. This links to my exploration of scale because I aim to create pieces exploring large objects and it is important to consider the various negative and positive ways an audience might be affected by my theme of scale.

Oceans, seas, lakes, being in deep bodies of water, the vastness of the sea, aquatic animals, great distance from land, boats, submarines, emptiness of the ocean, being near large bodies of water

Fearing large bodies of water is partly a human evolutionary response that also links to the fear of the unknown and how we avoid things that could easily kill us/ our communities such as drowning, floods and dangerous bodies of water.

Water is also often compared to our minds or mental health. In media, the sea is sometimes depicted as a punishment or an unstoppable force, for example the film Jaws uses this fear to build tension with many scenes contrasting the violence with an empty, almost serene sea. This links to my theme scale because of the overwhelming size and depth of the ocean. To explore this further, I could consider how the depth of the ocean affect people, for example, decompression sickness from divers ascending too quickly.

Plastic ducks are a charming and attention grabbing due to their bright colours which helps viewers keep track of them during the races. They have a very simple and easily recognisable shape

The Chicago Ducky Derby

The Ducky Derby is an annual duck race in Chicago to raise money and awareness for the Special Olympics Illinois charity.

The race takes place in August and ducks are poured off the Columbus Drive Bridge in the Chicago River, creating an entertaining spectacle that attracts donators and the news/ media.

This links to my theme scale as well as my personal exploration of something small making a big difference becuase of how widespread the concept of racing small plastic ducks has become that is a recognisable and common fundraiser for many charities with international appeal.