Studio Practice - Major Project
Due: Week 16 – 21/11/2014
Week 11
Notes on the Brief:
Take a notion – an idea or thought – and find a form for it.
The notion is a private concept that is not chosen to please others or to fit
perceptions but something that comes from yourself.
Finding the form is an experimental method that will require
materials and techniques dictated by the notion itself. I will become for a
tool for this notion.
A number of approaches will be needed to develop the notion in
such a way that takes it away from being understood. The final form should feel
awkward.
Ideas:
I decided to take a notion that began years ago when I was
about nine or ten years old. The notion was from childhood drawings that I drew
as 2D representation of giant cliff faces that were built out with strange
steps, ledges and buildings. These buildings sometimes had small figures or
strange symbols that formed parts of codes.
These drawings, as seen above, took up numerous pages of a green, lined, A5 notebook that I called a ‘scribble book’.
I have decided to develop a series of line drawings based on
these designs. Below are some ideas of where I want to start with these
drawings.
I then made these larger drawing in an A3 visual diary based on ideas from the first drawings.
Week 12
Ideas:
The other day while I was gathering some material for
Collaborative Studies from the garden at home, I happened to climb over one of
the branches of my childhood climbing tree and saw the symbols I had carved
into the bark years ago.
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| Symbols on Tree |
The symbols are now quite hard to make out but they are my initials ‘K.M.T’ in a code that I made up when I was younger. The code is based on binary, which my older brother had taught me to count in.
Counting in binary
means you can use one hand to count all the way up to 31, so I adopted it into
a code that would be easy to remember by making one equal ‘A’, two equal ‘B’ etcetera. I then devised a simplified way of drawing my hand in these positions.
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| Character Key |
I now plan to add these symbols to future drawings as a way
to answer possible questions asked by viewers in a way they will not
understand.
Here are these new drawings that include my secret code language.
The second image is also based on my initials; the symbols are the shapes built around by the stairs.
I also began adding mushrooms, which had been a large part of the original drawings.
Week 13
During week 13 I made four drawings. The first to were reasonably simple with a few new elements added. I did, however, stop making the text descriptive and instead wrote random lines, often related to what I happened to be thinking about at the time.
Here are pictures of them:
For the next two images I decided to test my self-made rules that had guided me in making the drawings. I began experimenting with my works so as to make them strange to my own perceptions with structures turned sideways or upside-down and stairways that have begun to loop around in ways that should be impossible.
Each of my drawings is a development on the style I am using. In some case the style is altered or changed but this is done as a process.
Here are the drawings:
I also created a new variation of my code language as seen above.
Week 14
I created two more images, the first of which is distinctly different from the rest. It is the Rosetta stone of my new 'Square Language', but only if you know how to read the original binary characters.
The Square Characters are actually based on the 'Classic Binary Characters' and can be deciphered without the additional text. The Square characters are really a kind of different typeface. I actually don't like that image all too much.
The second image is further evolution of the impossible staircase idea.
Week 15
I completed my final two images. The first is the last evolution of my staircase cliff-face notion and the other is yet again something quite different. It was inspired by the Square characters being a different typeface of my original characters. This lead me to create a drawing where each line of text is in a 'different font'.
I also finally decided how I want to display my work. They will be arranged on the wall in a 3x4 images arrangement it a left to right, top to bottom sequence of completion to showcase the process I went through.
The images have no narrative and make less and less sense. The text itself is random, often making little sense, if any and is there more for aesthetic purposes that anything. I will not be displaying the key to my secret language with these images as I have no desire for it to be easy to decipher, although it is not impossible if someone were to make the right connections.
Final Notes
Most of the aspects of the pictures take attributes from different experiences. I don't know where the notion for the original cliff face drawings came from, other than the idea of drawing 2D images that build out of the page. My childhood images all had stories that I related to them too; like what the buildings were for and who used them.
The mushrooms, that became a large part of the earlier drawings were partially inspired by one of the many books that I read as a child. In this story, there was a another world that could be accessed from our own, where magic was real but there were no flowers and no guns or combustion engines. But in a distant cavern near the edge of the world there were special mushrooms that turned into crystal flowers in a spray of poisonous spores.
My first drawings in week 11 show a rather different inspiration - the video game 'Minecraft' as I have played it a lot. This can be seen in the rather 'blocky' appearance of these images.
I was then reminded of my old secret language made up of characters based on the binary counting system. This is system originally discovered by Gottfried Leibniz in 1679 and used since for programing computers and storing information on them.
Then there are the structures I drew through-out my images. Staircases supported but extensive cross-bracing, which is admittedly completely over engineered, but inspired by the engineering side of my family, as well as old buildings where the cross bracing forming X's, rather than perfectly capable single '/' brace. The cross bracing may be unnecessary, but to me they are a sign of craftsmanship and care in work and I prefer the way they look. All of this came from observing the exposed rafters of an old, wooden building in Wellington years ago.
The image that shows the 'Square Language' with the 'Classic Binary' language translation took inspiration from the Rosetta stone, one of the greatest archeological discoveries in regards to the Ancient Egyptian history. The Rosetta stone was inscribed in three languages that all said the same thing, one of the languages being known already.
The image showing different typefaces for my language was in part, inspired by the previously mentioned image, but also by Typeface family example images I saw in my Typography Class.
A couple of popular culture references also made there way into some of the coded text. All the translations are in the images ALT text.
Lastly, I signed all my drawing in the bottom left corner with my 'Sign'. I have been using this to sign things since I was twelve and it even features, in one of its earlier stages, on the pencil case I made in my first year at high school. This sign is also 'mentioned' in one of the images.
Here are these new drawings that include my secret code language.
The second image is also based on my initials; the symbols are the shapes built around by the stairs.
I also began adding mushrooms, which had been a large part of the original drawings.
Week 13
During week 13 I made four drawings. The first to were reasonably simple with a few new elements added. I did, however, stop making the text descriptive and instead wrote random lines, often related to what I happened to be thinking about at the time.
Here are pictures of them:
For the next two images I decided to test my self-made rules that had guided me in making the drawings. I began experimenting with my works so as to make them strange to my own perceptions with structures turned sideways or upside-down and stairways that have begun to loop around in ways that should be impossible.
Each of my drawings is a development on the style I am using. In some case the style is altered or changed but this is done as a process.
Here are the drawings:
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| Close up of new code design. |
Week 14
I created two more images, the first of which is distinctly different from the rest. It is the Rosetta stone of my new 'Square Language', but only if you know how to read the original binary characters.
The Square Characters are actually based on the 'Classic Binary Characters' and can be deciphered without the additional text. The Square characters are really a kind of different typeface. I actually don't like that image all too much.
The second image is further evolution of the impossible staircase idea.
Week 15
I completed my final two images. The first is the last evolution of my staircase cliff-face notion and the other is yet again something quite different. It was inspired by the Square characters being a different typeface of my original characters. This lead me to create a drawing where each line of text is in a 'different font'.
I also finally decided how I want to display my work. They will be arranged on the wall in a 3x4 images arrangement it a left to right, top to bottom sequence of completion to showcase the process I went through.
The images have no narrative and make less and less sense. The text itself is random, often making little sense, if any and is there more for aesthetic purposes that anything. I will not be displaying the key to my secret language with these images as I have no desire for it to be easy to decipher, although it is not impossible if someone were to make the right connections.
Final Notes
Most of the aspects of the pictures take attributes from different experiences. I don't know where the notion for the original cliff face drawings came from, other than the idea of drawing 2D images that build out of the page. My childhood images all had stories that I related to them too; like what the buildings were for and who used them.
The mushrooms, that became a large part of the earlier drawings were partially inspired by one of the many books that I read as a child. In this story, there was a another world that could be accessed from our own, where magic was real but there were no flowers and no guns or combustion engines. But in a distant cavern near the edge of the world there were special mushrooms that turned into crystal flowers in a spray of poisonous spores.
My first drawings in week 11 show a rather different inspiration - the video game 'Minecraft' as I have played it a lot. This can be seen in the rather 'blocky' appearance of these images.
I was then reminded of my old secret language made up of characters based on the binary counting system. This is system originally discovered by Gottfried Leibniz in 1679 and used since for programing computers and storing information on them.
Then there are the structures I drew through-out my images. Staircases supported but extensive cross-bracing, which is admittedly completely over engineered, but inspired by the engineering side of my family, as well as old buildings where the cross bracing forming X's, rather than perfectly capable single '/' brace. The cross bracing may be unnecessary, but to me they are a sign of craftsmanship and care in work and I prefer the way they look. All of this came from observing the exposed rafters of an old, wooden building in Wellington years ago.
The image that shows the 'Square Language' with the 'Classic Binary' language translation took inspiration from the Rosetta stone, one of the greatest archeological discoveries in regards to the Ancient Egyptian history. The Rosetta stone was inscribed in three languages that all said the same thing, one of the languages being known already.
The image showing different typefaces for my language was in part, inspired by the previously mentioned image, but also by Typeface family example images I saw in my Typography Class.
A couple of popular culture references also made there way into some of the coded text. All the translations are in the images ALT text.
Lastly, I signed all my drawing in the bottom left corner with my 'Sign'. I have been using this to sign things since I was twelve and it even features, in one of its earlier stages, on the pencil case I made in my first year at high school. This sign is also 'mentioned' in one of the images.
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| Final Display |
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