Bits...

This is how in an ideal world my video would be played but it's a little impractical for an assesment.

Finnished Press And Drag bag of goodies!!!

Displaying Ideas

My idea to display my work with the instructional tee is based on the idea that someone has bought it and has been sat down with a bag of their purchases and then just left the room. The bag can be opened and the content spilled out, people can come and inspect what's in the bag (everything is tagged etc) and the adress to the website is in the bag.

 My building as a screen is displayed so that people can look at it through both sides, I don't think lighting it is really an option while marking will take place during the day, although If I could ideally display it any way I wanted I would have lit it by candlelight, but it's not really fair to light candles when other people's flamable work is sitting around mine.

I'm taking my five min video back into it's surroundings, And then recording it. If I could display it in an ideal world, I would have used a room and lit it with a single lamp and then had two monitors playing the two videos on a loop, on a "bed" like the two computers were talking. Then i'd possibly ask people whether they thought the silence of the piece was harmful or intimate.

Finnishing bits.

The other side to my two sided screen :)

Tried a torch for lighting - too bright

Fairy lights work well.

:) lit up car near the bull ring, really goes with what Im trying to do, outlines all lit up etc. really cool, nearly got my phone nicked while I was trying to take this picture though :/

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Gift bag time :) Printed off my "post cards" to go with my bits for the website/tshirts. Everythings coming together!!! :D

I've  been experimenting with different ways to present my final idea for marking, originally (see above) I was thinking about fairy lights behind the scene, trying to make the most of the transparent-ish paper, but you could very obviously see them and it wasn't exactly practical for placement.
(I've still got them just in case)
Then I was told it looked good in natural light and overlapped so i started to think, if i did two, one in a different style to the other, when I put them over the same frame so people can see through then it'd give a bigger depth of field to my work and make it look maybe abit more dreamlike and like a proper representation of some buildings (they're not all lined out the way i've done them).

I may try and take a candle in too...like a sunset as a point of light but i dont think everyone would be too keen on a candle burning willy nilly in the middle of everyones work...

following with my ideas on the shadow buildings and line work i stitched into some paper nylon - and idea that i was given from the textiles workshop, i used some of the same techniques as Michael Ecconomy, but on a sewing machine, I like the spare strands - they look as if they've been drawn rather than sewn now.

Pulling together.

Okay, 2 projects almost done, the building as a screen got a massive push this week and i've been making, building, sewing...painting...it's been hard

I took photos from the tops of my buildings etc and did this with a few, i like how everything can be condensed so easily, and they're just the shadows of buildings. the variation in line work adds depth too.