Tuesday, 20 March 2012

20/03/2012 work week 9 & 10

I have been experimenting with materials for the last couple of weeks. and I am mostly concentrating on layers and continuing circles to explore the concept of influence. I have made these vessels from one continuous piece of string the layers are built up similar to the way our environment and personal influences build up over time to shape and make us who we are.





With these pieces I have also been thinking about moving ripples from 2D to 3D. I have also been incorporating light with these forms.


Next I have been working with layers of paper this piece can be moved changing the view
when looking down into the centre. If influence builds up in layers this piece is a means to look back through these layers. I have also been experimenting with light and this piece.




Finally I have been thinking about Harold Bloom's varying definitions of influence and the anxiety it causes and the resulting defencive reactions. They are to react in the complete and exact opposite of something, to break a continuous process, to move towards the sublime in reaction to the sublime, to remain in a state of solitude, to resurrect what has gone before and swerving in reaction against repetition or to correct.

I am continuing to explore these statements and have been making plates for either embossing or printing. 














Thursday, 8 March 2012

week 8 08/03/2012

Working on essay this week. looking at 4 things valuable to contemporary craft practice. Tradition Influence the handmade and authorship of the bespoke desirable item. Not so much done for practice. Just working with drawings and layers and distortion.