Print

The project was based on our immediate space and how we influence it. After a few brainstorming sessions I decided to go for a simple base plate that I could alter and customize, just as we do when we interact with our environment. I wanted to create a series of images showing how changes in our surroundings can affect us.

 Bed.

 Recession.

 This is a follow-on from the recession print.

 Rising petrol prices.

 Having a cold from the very first day of print until the very last day was worthy of getting a print because of how much it affected me and my surroundings.

 How cannabis and other psychedelic drugs can cause you to have an altered perception of reality.

 How having too much money can influence us to take hard drugs.

 Being drunk. I repeated one print 3 times without re-inking my base plate and placed them slightly offset from each other to give an optical illusion similar to being drunk. I added "beer goggles" by placing pint glasses over the eye area. The beer bottle mouth is puckered up and ready for a kiss

Putting blood, sweat and tears into my work.

I liked the way bright colours can change the atmosphere of an area. So I attempted to cover all the windows on one side of the college in coloured paper to see how it would look when it was backlit.

I tried a few different materials but crepe paper worked best.

I managed to buy a few different shades of different colours so I could fade the colours so it wouldnt be just a single block colour.

I attempted to fill all of the windows in the large stairwell in with either a green or yellow but was unable to get material big enough to cover the window. After some thinking as to how to get around this, I thought about putting a green filter over a photography light and pointing it up through the stairwell so it could be seen fading up through from outside. Unfortunately, powers beyond my control stopped this from happening.. I rented out two lights and neither one of them would work.

If I had more time on this project I would attempt to cover all major windows in the school to give the feel of the colour bursting from all sides of our college.



Working on from the light box I wanted to work more with how coloured light can affect dark areas. So I placed the sellofane on the large windows facing the courtyard, because I knew that that area is very dark at night and could work well.

As I had plenty of waiting time until it got dark, I set up more sellofane on the large windows below on the ground floor, to get two different angles of light into the courtyard.

Then all I needed was a bright enough light to project the colours into the courtyard. I rented a redhead photography lamp from Matt in the AV room and it worked better than expected.



The quality of the video isn't the best but it was just an experiment to show how I can move the colours and let them interact with their surroundings.

Illuminate

Since glowsticks had such a short lifespan, I decided I'd use a light bulb with a cover made of coloured paper. I tried crepe paper but it didn't work at all.. it just created a shadow without colour.
Then I found coloured sellofane sheets and stuck them together and covered a wooden frame I had made.
Depending on what way I turned both boxes, the colours would mix to give oranges, greens, blues, reds, purples and yellows.

Sculpture

After a group session of mind mapping ideas from the 5 senses (touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing) we had to find words from our ideas that we could expand on. 

My original ideas were based on the word interact, but after talking with my tutors, I was told to pick a word that is less vague. Another word that appealed to me was 'illuminate'. My ideas are based on how different colours placed next to each other are affected when light is shone on them.

My first experiment was using glow sticks in styrofoam and seeing how they glow and reflect through the polystyrene pieces.

The effect was better than expected.. The polystyrene created a glowing corona, probably because of the reflections from the balls of styrofoam. The downside to this was the short lifespan of the glowsticks.

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