28/4/2012

There are only about 4 weeks to deadline now so with all promotional materials done I feel it is time to make final decisions on outcomes for this brief.
I have a large piece of glass to smash and the concept of this ties in with John Locke's view that we are all born as a blank sheet without marks on us and that it is only our environment and influences that make us who we are, how we are nurtured. My glass sheet is a metaphorical blank sheet and the smashing of it makes me take on the role of the influencer. I make the marks on the glass but I do not have total control of how the glass will react. This is were the nature of the glass takes on a greater role.
I will use this sheet of glass as a plate for printing and the concept of this stems from Oscar Wilde's comments in Dorian Gray as the reaction to influence. The plate being the influencer and the print an image taken from the influencer and so being the influenced. Mirroring the influencer and so playing a part not written for them and so loosing something of the natural self. To influence someone is to give away part of yourself to be influenced by another is to lose part of yourself to become an imprint of another.
I am also still working with the 3D forms from my last post want the to become moveable objects with the  viewer and manipulate and influence. I should have any loose ends tied up by this week.

17/04/2012

This week I have been working on my promotional materials: business cards portfolio and website. For studio practice I have been making plates for printing and exploring the concept of layers using string and 3d layered paper forms.

I am exploring the concept of influence and I have been thinking about all of the things or people that influence from day to day these influences build up in layers layers to make us who we are. There is movement in these pieces so the I can influence the shape and form they take so there is a certain amount of control involved and it can be thought of in two ways. The influencer can control the movement and so become the dominant force. The layers can also represent the layers of influence built up by the influencer but the influenced is in control of how these layers are shaped and moulded.

I have been developing the concept of layers of influence and ripples of influence with glass and I may take this further.

Plates made from string.

This week I will be using these for embosing and I have made several different plates relating to ripples layers and Bloom's six revisionary ratios.

03/04/12 Weeks 11&12

I have completed my essay so I am now able to focus entirely on studio practice. I have several things I am working on at the moment. Embossing was successful and I am making more plates with different designs inspires by Harold blooms six revisionary ratios in reaction to influence. I have also been continuing to print from glass plates creating several ghosts prints from one plate.
I will be using this further in my final work and at the moment I intend to use six of these plates made from laminated glass with the initial blows made by people who have influenced me. I will then continue the breaking process taking inspiration from Blooms work.
I am also still working with layers in both paper and fused glass and I will also be exploring this further.