To start off this part of the rotation, Kath gave the group a task to make an object that was non-functioning. As freeing as we want.
I decided to use three main objects and work around the jar to make the piece.
Then the next task was to make an object but with a function, it could be whatever I want. It still had to remain the element of random.
Honestly don’t know what the function of the object could be.
Gracia Lam
So for the main piece for this part of the project, I wanted to develop a piece from Gracia that I really enjoyed. Her work aims to reinvent mundane objects and turn them into somewhat of a fantasy. The piece was based on the her commissioned work for the “New York Times” and it was a piece about sanctuary spas in Tucson, Arizona.
Before the making of this object, Kath gave feedback on the two previous pieces and she suggested that I could focus on bottles & to be more specific “potion bottles”. Therefore, I went for trying to cover the bottle to make the outer more “fantasy-like”. Which goes hand in hand with Gracia Lam’s thought process of turning a mundane object into art.
The first rotation was Anthony. His part of “On Your Marks” was to show a sense of marking making with a graphical take. To start off he gave us the task of marking down the shapes but in different patterns/arrangements to make the phrase “On Your Marks” after that he made us/I break down each letter and used the three shapes to create the one letter.
Screen-Printing
After multiply of task to get a better understanding of the shapes. Out of the phrase we each had a letter to create. I had the letter “U” to create. Also the end result of this rotation was to do a screen print of the chosen letter.
The second rotation was Shellie’s group. Were we had to create a drawing machine to create multiply work to create on top of the original lines. I chose to create three main pieces of work using one huge piece of line work. The first piece was inspired by Cy Twombly’s marking making and selected colour palette. The second piece was influenced by Zio Ziegler and how his work features bold lines that stand out from the picture underneath. Final image was done using Harold Hollingsworth as inspiration because i wanted to incorporate the rich colours and graphic sense that his images have.
Embroidery & Sewing
To further our work, Shellie’s group had a workshop with Terrie. That was a introduction to sewing machines and embroidery. I chose to recreate my Harold Hollingsworth inspired piece.
The final stage of the rotation was Jason & Becky group. Which was an introduction to Performance Art. The initial stages, I had to do a portrait of the person opposite of me. Throughout I had to do various mark making, some would limit the control I had with my dominant hand.
After the portraits, our group did a collaborative piece were we had to make a mark were our hands could reach. The line through the middle is my mark.
All through out the day, we were discussing about ownership. Who would take ownership and (referencing back to the portraits) how someone would see it as “one drawing”. But we would see as three drawings because we have context behind the piece.
Our Performance Piece
The brief for our performance was to produce a drawing with the extent of restricting our bodies & focusing on the process.
As a team, we decided that idea three would be the best process because we had thought that we could produce multiply variations of the same drawing.
This piece was a trial of different mediums. To see which one would make a bolder mark.
From the first image, we decided to go with charcoal as the medium. Then we went onto doing the “final” piece with the charcoal.
This was the Final Piece from our group. We went with sharpie as the material to get the clean lines. We went by capturing this in two different angels.
The main influence for this process is Tony Orrico. Who specialises in performance art and conceptual drawings. We look at his “Penwald Drawings” series.
Aisha Beya 