Flight

In this workshop, we started off thinking about the things that fly in the wind, but that are man made objects. This led me to think about how these objects affect the environment, especially plastic bags. Turtles eat plastic bags that go into the sea as they mistake them for jellyfish, causing them to suffocate. I wanted to make jellyfish out of plastic bags to symbolise the effect they have due to them being so similar. In experimenting with other ideas, we made a turtle kite out of wire and a plastic bag that had a jellyfish flying behind it. 

Machines for living IV

After looking at the intriguing insides of the disc drive and creating a cardboard version of the house I designed, I attempted to make an architectural model out of foam board. I found that this worked better than the cardboard I initially used, as the clean white outlines emphasised the shapes of the windows and the basic interior. 

Machines for living III

Following on from the keyboard, I decided to take apart this old disc drive my cousin gave me. I found the individual aspects that created it were architectural, all of which contributed to the function and movement of the machine. 

Machines for living II

In today's society, we live in a city where everyone (especially the younger generations) rely on technology and the internet to live their lives on a daily basis.These machines that we live with are created by other people and the majority of us have no idea what is inside them and what they are made of. I wanted to look into something that we use to connect with the world and people around us, so I took apart a keyboard and arranged it in a design.  

Machines for living I

At the start of this project I looked at the systems of the human and animal body, and how these systems connect to one another. Drawing some of these made me think of the maps of the London underground, so I recreated a section of the map using string. When I asked people what they thought it was, their first thought wasn't the tube map, as the recreation was made out of a material totally unrelated to the underground. 

Wellcome Collection

 An Idiosyncratic A to Z of the Human Condition:

Medicine Now:

The multi-layered structure of the keratin of a dog claw (Anne Weston)

Colour

In this morning workshop we looked at mixing colours to capture the light and dark areas that had been created in the park from the sunlight that shone through the trees. I focused on a small area of the bush where the tips of some leaves were reflecting the light, making them glow a lime-yellow. 

Whilst washing the green and blue paint off the brush, I noticed the way that the blue water reflected the tree above me, reminding me of the mirror work I had done on the previous project, inspired by artists such as Anish Kapoor.

Mirror Mirror...

Starting with photo manipulation, I experimented with the idea of fragmenting a photo I had taken of a magpie on a brick wall, to challenge what a person sees when the image they are looking at is different to what they expect to see. 

An interesting reflection I found at Warren Street Station



Here, I painted a large piece of MDF black, so as not to draw any attention away from the mirrors. The mirrors were arranged so that there was a higher concentration of larger mirrors in the centre, and smaller ones as you move further outwards. The variation of sizes made the reflected image distorted and fragmented, especially when you looked closer at the smallest mirrors.