2. Project Statement A-Z: A Bouquet From a Distance explores how reductive image-making can be used to convey what Walter Benjamin describes as the ‘aura’ of an object, rather than the object itself. Through a series of simple pastel drawings, translating a still life of a bouquet onto a series of grids that sequentially increase… Continue reading Unit 2: Positions through Iterating — Written Response & Feedback
P5: Written Responses & Feedback
1. Project Statement This project is an exploration of how the relationship between design objects and their various users can be communicated to and perceived by contrasting audiences. Specifically, we were interested in the juxtaposition that arose from the V&A’s curatorial decision to pair our selected object, the architectural spikes, with a braille tactile paving… Continue reading P5: Written Responses & Feedback
P5: Kent Stainless Stud Catalogue
This project is an exploration of how the relationship between design objects and their various users can be communicated to and perceived by contrasting audiences. Specifically, we were interested in the juxtaposition that arose from the V&A’s curatorial decision to pair our selected object, the architectural spikes, with a braille tactile paving block, presenting two… Continue reading P5: Kent Stainless Stud Catalogue
Methods of Contextualising: Experiments in Collage
One of the methods used to translate our selected object, the architectural spikes, was collage, in order to recontextualise each kind of spike within the urban environment in which it would be found. Additionally, the collages are intended to build the image of a stud through the various users/audiences it engages with – manufacturers, clients,… Continue reading Methods of Contextualising: Experiments in Collage
P5: Methods of Contextualising – V&A Gems
My overall reaction to the V&A’s Rapid Response Collection was that it was a presentation of many interesting objects/artefacts, if not a little overwhelming at times with sheer amount of objects on display. That being said, there were a few personal standouts that I’d have loved to explore on my own, but unfortunately didn’t make… Continue reading P5: Methods of Contextualising – V&A Gems
Methods of Iterating: BANQUET EXOTICA
BANQUET EXOTICA linocut, ink on Southbank paper and cardboard envelope In the manner of Barthes, who in ‘Mythologies’ (1957) writes “myth is neither a lie not a confession: it is an inflexion”, this project assembles a series of juxtapositions to recontextualise cultural references as evocations, rather than definitions, of new meaning. This ‘triptych’ is based… Continue reading Methods of Iterating: BANQUET EXOTICA
Methods of Iterating: A few notes on Myths
After the second week of the brief, I began to look more critically at the ad hoc open compound naming conventions of South Asian restaurants and how these could be used as a means of recontextualising an image. At this point, I began to frame my enquiry specifically through the lens of Roland Barthes’ Mythologies… Continue reading Methods of Iterating: A few notes on Myths
P4: Methods of Iterating – Written Responses
Week 1: Trying my hand at a reduction linocut – printing a multicoloured image carved from a single ‘block’ of material – has revealed the reductive quality of the process to be mirrored by the additive nature of the outcome. Each new layer carved results in an additional fragment extracted from the original monochrome reference… Continue reading P4: Methods of Iterating – Written Responses
P3: Written Response & Feedback Notes
Hito Steyerl’s In Defense of the Poor Image in the style of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities The following text rewrites the first two sections of In Defense of the Poor Image as a series of fictitious vignettes, intending to translate Steyerl’s arguments on image quality, through Calvino’s sense of place. City of Poor Images There… Continue reading P3: Written Response & Feedback Notes
U1, Week 8: It Was Very Sweet
My final outcome of P3 came in the form of a short film, created as a tribute to Kensuke Hosoya, the photographer of the original image I had been working with. Combining our two images – Kensuke’s ‘perfect’ original and my imitation – I cut out the poster I had printed into individual pixels. The… Continue reading U1, Week 8: It Was Very Sweet