The final part of Psychogeography was Kath’s part. Which the brief was to take a 3D object that I have and write about the process of creating that object.
I decided to do my piece about my keys. At first it was between the keys and a necklace that I recently bought. It made sense to create and write about my keys because theres history with my keys.
This was my writing piece for the before section of my object
PHYSICAL RESPONSE
For my physical response, I didn’t know how to go about it. First, I went with trying to make a 3d key using paper. Trying to make somewhat of a key net. After that I went on to make some designs that I wanted on my key to differentiate them. I decided that I wanted to make some clay keys because that would be the closest to actually making 3d models.
This design was for the main key for my house whilst doing my mindmap I looked into the brand of keys and who manufacturer them.
The idea with the clay moulds would be that I would use them to create the keys. But some of my keys would have to require a two mould set which at that moment of time, I didn’t have time to do.
Automatic Writing is claimed physic ability allowing a person to produce written words purportedly arise from the subconscious. To ease us into the process of automatic writing, we were task with just little min writing. At first Becky & Jason, got us to do it with our left hand and then we moved location and had to do it there. Instead of a min we did it as five minutes.
My Space
After the tasks, we had to chose a space to write about. The space I chose was influenced by an artist called Nam June Paik. Who loves to feature technology in his work especially Tv’s. So I decided to make my space about a Tv. The idea is that I’m going to close my eyes in front of the Tv whilst I write.
Physical Response
The idea for this was that i wanted to translate my automatic writing into a some kind of script. Inspired by the work of Senthuran Varatharajah. Who has a section in Flaneur Magazine that explores his time at an airport but has a similar script like layout. Also wanted to explore Typography in my work.
For the video response, my initial idea was to make a video kind of repeating what I’ve said in my automatic writing. Just by combining different clips together. The earlier clips in the video are following that format. But then I had another idea to make the video a reflection on media today and how is hyper everything. From sex, alcohol and violence.
Workshop: Surface Pattern
For the workshop, I had to create a repeat pattern that link into the work that I was doing. Therefore, I’ve decided to make my pattern a homage if I say so. To Nam June Paik piece that I saw in the Tate called “TV Garden”.
MAIN INFLUNCES
The three main influences for this part of Psychogeography, were Flaneur Magazine, Senthuran Varatharajah & Nam June Paik.
I moved onto Shellie’s group, which focused writing about a specific piece of clothing that I was wearing that day. Similar, to Anthony I would have to create a physical response to my writing.
Writing
For the writing I chose, this cow print bucket to be my subject because it was the most interesting piece I was wearing. Instead of just describing the hat and what it means to me. I went for the route of writing about how it got to me. I decided in my writing that in my writing piece that I was not going to refer to my piece as “cow print bucket hat” but instead refer to the Order Number. Which is #449167547 In my writing , looking at journey in a outside/3rd person perceptive. So for this I had to look back at delivery emails to get the information I need.
Physical Response
For the physical response, I had to create and image without using any hard lines. So it would have to include a word/phrase from my writing to create the image. I went for creating the bucket hat either using the order number to make the image or when I was talking to shellie about my writing she said a phrase that i really liked. Which was “Cultural Baggage”. Which I wanted to feature in my work somehow.
To further my response I decided to create somewhat of a prototype to see what my initial idea would look like and to expand on embroidery because it like how I can translate a thought onto a medium like that.
Workshop: Photoshop
The initial idea for the work shop was to create a t-shirt using Photoshop. I started out, thinking about how I was going to make this t-shirt but in my head I really wanted to a digital version of the embroidered hat that I did. Still keeping the same colour palette to the embroidery.
Decided to get rid of the harsh lines as that was the brief for the response, I just needed them for guidance when creating.
VISUAL STUDIES: MAPPING
For Visual Studies, the brief was that we had to create a map. I decided to link it back with my work. I went with a similar idea to the hat and went for using Shellie’s quote “Cultural Baggage” This is a map of where my hat journey takes place. If I were to finish this I would make a clear indication of where it began and where the journey ends.
Artists Impression
The first half of the writing was about the bucket hat and then we had to find artist that would relate to the project. To write first impression on them. The two artist that I closely looked at were Jeremy Scott & Alexander Wang. After the writing, showed a bunch of information on who to look at. There was this article that was talking about the trend of putting words/phrase on a garment. Which I wanted to look into more.
For this project, there were two main focuses. The writing and the physical response to the writing. Observational Writing was the first section of the rotation. For this part, I had to chose an area that I could write in great detail about.
I decided that the area that i was going to write about Oxford Street & Swansea Market. Instead of going to a specific location, I documented my journey.
At first, it was quite challenging because I couldn’t get my head around what should I be noting down. Theres no right or wrong answer on how I should approach this. As time was passing got more comfortable with writing in public.
After the hour out there, I had to come back and refine my text and get all the details down. Anthony gave the text a read over and said to get all the information down because it was still fresh in my head and trying and make my text read like a conversation.
Physical Response
The second half to this project, was to create a response to your writing. Had a talk with Anthony and he suggested that i should combine my text with some images. So from that I decided that my images were going to be continuous line drawing because I tend to gravitate towards that type of style because of how quick it is to get something on the page.
Photography Workshop
For this workshop, I had to take a digital image and convert that into a positive or negative photogram.
I did a series of photograms that helped develop the physical response a bit more. The whole experience was a bit of a trial and error. Trying to get into the rhythm of using the dark room again. For this workshop, I got explore different techniques that helped build my response.
Main influence
These two artists were my main influences for my work. The talk that I had with Anthony he mentioned to look into Olivier Kugler’s work. For Jim Goldberg, I wanted to incorporate his style of text and the way he lays it out to complement the image.
Aisha Beya 