photoshop – Aisha Beya

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.

My Video Response

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.

Line Of Garment

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.