Urban Influences Week Four

After last weeks tutorial moving into a larger sketchbook It didnt quite work for me as I felt itwas ruining my drawings I gave it a few days but didnt want to fall behind so I asked a group of peers for their honest opinion and they too thought that my work was suffering from moving into a large sketch book so I hae chosen to move to the A3 square small then the last one but alot bigger then my first. I continued with visual research and sampling on a larger scale using the more tonal white greys and black as these were the type of colours that came from my photos. I also did some artist research and found Caroline Bartlett similarly to Mathew Harris, I found her work very inspirational as she uses layering to explore ideas of concealing and reveling which is something that I am interested in. I also found that her work through its colour scheme and composition had strong links to my visual research.

Caroline Bartlett

Caroline Bartlett

Textiles form the core of Caroline Bartlett's practice, providing not only the means and materials to process and articulate ideas, but  also often through acting as a reference point in relation to content. Imprinting, stitching, erasing and reworking, folding and unfolding  become defining characteristics, whilst explorations have also resulted in works which integrate textiles with other media such as porcelain.  Weebly. (2010). Caroline Bartlett. Available: http://carolinebartlett.weebly.com/. Last accessed 16th Oct 2014.

The samples  I created this week are far more successful in portraying my theme of urban influences than the smaller samples I previously made. The colour way Iv'e gone with shows clear links to both my visual research and artists work. I was more concise about the composition of my work as in past weeks the samples were very busy and overcrowded whereas this week I concentrated on having some parts heavily sew to create dense focal points and others vacant.I plan to experiment with a variety of sized samples as most are square; this isn't how I imagine my final samples to be shaped, at the moment they are mostly all a uniformed square. Whereas my vision for final samples is a variety longer and shorter irregular pieces as this would represent the theme of urban influences better.

 

This week I was inducted onto the ETHOS machine this was something I previously had no experience in, the idea of using the computers with a program I hadn't used before was very daunting, I initially though that I would struggle with the technology however I found it surprisingly simple and understandable to us. Although the this was an enjoyable process the outcome is very precise, flat and orderly and for those reasons isn't something i feel is relevent to my work in the urban influences project however now that I am familiar with the machine i would like to experiment and use this in future projects.