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.
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 