My final zine posters

Zine : Info graphics

I have started working on a selection of info graphics addressing quite comical aspects of being ginger - the nicknames according to what shade your hair is, your temperament and personality traits as judged by other people. I think its amusing to look at the assumptions that are made over just one element of a person's appearance. 

More zine experimentation

I have started working with the photos i took, bleaching them by photocopying them at high contrast and illustrating over them and using hand rendered typography. I plan to use red and orange as accent colours which hints at the subject of the zine, but the inverted black and white images widens the subject matter and allows me to address the wider themes of discrimination and stereotypes.

ZINE experimentation

Although my zine will be looking at the trivial subject of ginger hair and the comical stereotypes that exist about it, i also want to look at the wider theme of identity - how people are judged on appearance and how people hide insecurities behind exterior qualities.

Final xmas cards

After a crit and a little tweaking, my final cards...

Poster for Beautiful TV FEED seminar

More Christmas card ideas

Christmas card ideas

Some card ideas using leaves that i picked up from the park...

And a novelty one?

Zine / GINGE

For our zine brief i am going to look at the good and bad stereotypes of & attitudes towards people with red hair. I think I'm going to call it GINGE. This is my moodboard looking at how red hair was regarded through art history and then more recent negative stereotypes. I want to look at the myth that people with ginger hair will become extinct and play on wildlife book illustration of extinct species and odd photos. I plan to use a mix of collage and illustration with handdrawn typography that expresses my feelings about being a redhead. I have also looked at the work of Ellen Gallagher and i love the way she appropriates images of her subject and makes them into surreal paper sculptures and plays with their identity and appearance.

Exploring some photos taken of mundane aspects of every day life, repeated most days, activity which we do unconsciously and take for granted as part of normal life...made to look quite nice! I like how only i can really make out what the photos are actually of.

I have experimented with clock face shapes and number styles and have used some of these shapes over footage of activities during a typical 24 hours, filmed using a flip camera. The films are quite rough and are just to explore how i might create a moving image installation to represent my analysis of 24 hours. I have chosen to start with journeys as this is when your mind is often vacant, especially since i don't drive and so have to travel on buses, trains or walk. I have filmed minute details of my journey and started to add in thoughts and shapes which represent my mood at that time.

Sketchbook work

I have started to explore clock face imagery and reduce it to a pencil drawing, a bit like a scientific drawing. A like the delicate quality of this and want to look at animating something like this overlayed over imagery.

I am interested in how your feelings and mood can change in an instant and so i wanted to explore this through some abstract style illustration. This could work well as an accompaniment to a diary style narrative looking at changes of mood/state of happiness within a 24 hour period. Will be adding more detail to this...

A time to...

I have been looking at the well known section of the old testament book Ecclesiastes, "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven..." I thought it would be interesting to layer these verses, which state that history merely repeats itself and nothing is new, over imagery of dead flowers which grow and die over and over again.

Walking

As i constantly walk everywhere i have chosen to film myself waking in different shoes, on different roads, in different weather on my mobile phone. Here is a short test for some ideas i have of incorporating this footage into an animation.

24 hours experimentation

For the 24 hours brief i have started looking at anxiety disorder and how one minute a person can feel fine, and then the next minute they may suffer from a panic attack and i want to portray the sudden and all-consuming nature of this disorder and how it can completely change the course of your day.

24 hour party people

I've started looking at a new brief today - exploring the theme of 24 hours...

i think the theme of time is vast and can open up so many possibilities to look at so to start with i've been researching how other artists explore the theme in their work, beginning with the work of Bill Viola.

Viola is a leading proponent for contemporary video art and has pioneered it from the late 60's. Viola looks at themes of life vs death, mysticism, supernatural beings, religion - which to me is the more serious and consuming side of time, looking at questions of what happens to our lives, our purpose, a side which can be hard for a human being to comprehend. So in his work Viola really hits you and makes you question your existence. I really love his work Ocean Without A Shore which was installed in a small chapel in Venice and portrays people at the intersection of life and death. The simple effect of the water almost bursting out of the people is amazing and really draws you in to watch it again and again. The low sound levels and the slow quality of the film emphasise the impact of the person standing before you and allows the viewer to experience every second of it.

In contrast I also looked at Bruce Nauman who looks at human activity in his video art, and the more immediate aspects of everyday behaviour - there are lots of films of him performing mundane tasks over and over again. I don't enjoy watching this type of video art but it does make you reflect on the repetitive nature of life and it might be interesting to look at how repetitive my own patterns of behaviour on a day to day basis? I did like this installation though...

Snipit of - Untitled 1970/2009 Bruce Nauman from Zarah Ackerman on Vimeo.

Other bits of inspiration i found...

MUTO by Blu - i love the simple time lapse animation in this film and the playful nature of it, you don't know what will happen next and it is constantly evolving and changing.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

I think it would be useful to use video to look at aspects of everyday life that we miss as life is so fast paced. This short video i found highlights the beauty of everyday things if you just stop and look for a minute.

Lights and Water from James Adamson on Vimeo.

I think for this brief i am going to explore a few different outcomes:
- video/photos of everyday occurrences to make an animation
- look at colours in terms of how colour can affect/represent mood over time
- printed materials examining how time is represented using collage, ephemera, old and new photos

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