KVB127
OPEN TASK 2
I extended one of images from my [Siteworks II] work to produce a gif.
I am in love with the 1960s and 70s minimalism and conceptual art movement, and I find a lot of my views of art influenced by the attitudes of that time.
For example, right after my first studio session in week 1, I felt very passionate and dramatic about art and wrote myself a manifesto-type list of 'rules' for my art:
I am in love with the 1960s and 70s minimalism and conceptual art movement, and I find a lot of my views of art influenced by the attitudes of that time.
For example, right after my first studio session in week 1, I felt very passionate and dramatic about art and wrote myself a manifesto-type list of 'rules' for my art:
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
REPEAT AFTER ME
OPEN TASK 2
Ideas and experiments:
- Moving my phone along the line with front camera recording me
It was not visually effective. The phone couldn't go into the corners so it would not be true to process.
- Experimenting with field of view. This is the one I spent the most time on.
- Masking tape folds on finger, print. Images below to explain. I wanted to repeat the process many times to
- Making a gradient by drawing progressive lines on thin layers of gesso.
This could look really nice if I made a large scale reproduction of it, on large canvas
- Sketches and studies of my body
I stuck up a piece of butcher's paper on the back of my bathroom door (on Wednesday 27th May) so I can study and draw my body everyday. I have been adding to it everyday since then.
Documentation of experiments
Because I could not settle on an idea, Charles suggested that I outsource the decision making.
So I rolled the die I had made in week 2.
This work has emerged out of a sort of ritualistic practice of drawing myself everyday. I taped a piece of butcher's paper on the back of my bathroom door so I could study and sketch my body everyday in the bathroom mirror. I started using a sharpie which was already running out, but I persisted and so did the sharpie, so each day, the drawing gets fainter. I intend to keep drawing myself until the sharpie completely dries out (after the assessment).
There is no explicit indication of a sequence or chronology of the drawings, apart from judging by the faintness of the lines I guess. The composition is random, because I didn't place importance on the final product, rather I directed my energy towards observing the lines and shadows of my body in present time.
I noticed that there are ripple-like warps in the paper, which I'm pretty sure happened due to the steam from the shower.
I intend to extend this work further by creating a similar self-portrait work, but with smaller time increments. I think that'll compliment this composition nicely, because I chose not to focus on the face in any of the sketches above.
I used ball point pen because it was easily available, but also because I approached the task casually and ball point pen felt pretty casual.
The sketches turned out to be more refined that I set out for them to be, and I unknowingly put more thought into the composition and final product because I knew that is was not just going to be for my own eyes.
Also, these sketches are a perfect depiction of how I felt the past 2 days. I felt pretty good to dabble in the realm of self-expression, where I don't usually tend to go with my art.