Unit 2: The Externally Set Task
FragmentsI have chosen to do Fragments for my Externally Set Task. I have chosen this because I looked at a few websites and examples of the Fragments work and I really liked the look of the different works and experiments people have done. I also think that rearranging images in a different and unique way sounds really interesting and doesn't seem to be a very simple process so its a good challenge. They looked really interesting and really made me want to have a go of doing a few experiments myself.
MY FIRST IDEAS:
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Click on the image below to view my Pinterest board I have created and added images that relate to the topic fragments.
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Lucas Simões
Lucas Simoes is a Brazilian contemporary artist and studied architecture and design in Brazil and Italy. Lucas Simoes' workis highly influenced by his architectural and design background. Over the years Simoes has experimented working with a wide range of materials from maps, books and photographs and a lot more.He creaetes bizarre and distorted pieces of work and are heavily layered. He takes multiple images and cuts different sections and overlaps them to create new pieces of work. His work is strange however always facinating and interesting to look at. They always draw you in. |
Desmemórias
Desmemórias is a series of work where Lucas took multiple images of his old childhood friends and people he has just met. He took 10 photos of each one and cut out different sections of the images and overlapped them between acrylic sheets. The basic cut of the images are more geometric but do not have a continuos pattern and do not repeat. The size of each of the photographs are 41x31cm.
Micheal Mapes
Michael Mapes is a New York artist born in Fort Knox, Kentucky who won a MFA from the University of Illinois in 1992. He dissects his photos and then arranges them again, using fragments like plastic bags and vials and then these fragments are placed in boxes or are pinned with insect pins onto a white board.
These images look really interesting and I want to have a go at trying to create one of these images. I might have a go at them and cut the image up and rearrange it in the same way but as little fragments. I would have to pin them onto a board or stick them down if I couldn't find any pins. “His unique appropriation of traditional ideas on portraiture and taxonomy convey the inherent tension between a methodical objectivity and an unavoidable psychological subjectivity”. Mapes' portraits are like swarms of smaller portraits of the person they depict: tiny versions of the original portrait. Hes created a series of works based on famous portraits by great Dutch painters from the 16th-17th centuries. He has exhibited his work extensively in the USA and Europe.
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First Set of experiments.
These images were my first set of experiments of the theme of fragments. I choose to do them all in black and white and for them to have different shapes on them. I have use 2 copies of the same picture in each of the images. In the first one I have cut on of the copies of the images into small vertical rectangular pieces. As I went along the image sticking on the other pieces, I placed one of the pieces the right way up and then the other piece next to it upside down. I did this because I thought it would look a bit different and I thought it would look good. I think this image turned out well although I think I could've done it a bit neater. In the second image I produced I used squares. I drew squares from the top to the bottom equally, using a ruler, on one of the copies and then used a guillotine to cut them up equally. I then arranged the images randomly along the other copy. I think this image turned out well and it was neater then the first one. In the final image I produced, I used triangles as my shape. I cut one of the copies up in triangles. Inside the triangles I cut up, I cut another small triangle into it. I did this because i wanted the view to see the image behind the triangles and I thought it would look a bit different and good. I think this image looks good and I think it went well. To improve it I think I could've made sure the triangles fitted equally with each other to make the image look neater and better. I don't feel 100% happy with these first images so I might have a go at making more of the same kind of images to see if they turn out nicer and for more experimentation.
Jeremy Tourvielle
Jeremy Tourvielle is a Swiss artsist from Geneva. He combines a set of images form the same subject. He slices each of the images up and then pieces them all back together changing the layout of them each. He uses his work for work illustration and not artistic purposes. He usually uses no more than two set of images for each final piece. All his images are really defined and are really clear making them really stand out. |
Allison Diaz
Haunted Mirrors |
Allison Diaz is a San Francisco based collage artist. She has created a series of photographic work which focuses on the way we perceive ourselves and others. Allison was inspired by a story she heard on the National Public Radio about face blindness. The story ended with them breaking up, and while the girlfriend would sometimes walk by the cafe he worked at and see him, he never realized it was her. After that, I wanted to play with the brain’s perception of faces." Her Work explores how we perceive reality and physical identity. The collages are all done from vintage portraits from old magazines. most of them are from the 70'sand the 80's. She usually uses two or three portraits to create one piece.
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Display Strategies
I want my final images displayed in a frames with them all next to each other like the images above. I would prefer if the frames were in black and white. This is because my images are black and white so I think they would nice together. I also like how they are placed, one on top of the other and how they aren't just in one line. I think this makes it look more interesting. I also want them printed out onto photographic paper.
Final Evaluation.
For my Externally Set task I explored the theme of Fragments. I decided to choose Fragments out of all of the choices it they really stood out to me and really looked interesting to look at further. I wanted to look at different photographers works on the theme of Fragments and look at different representations and pieces of Fragments on my Pinterest account. This would give me ideas on what Fragment based ideas I wanted to create. I also had a look at other websites across the internet and had a look at Mr Nichol's website for some photographers to research and look at. I also created a popplet to help get down my ideas that I came up with and got down some examples of photographers and their work.
I firstly found photographer to look at like Lucas Simoes and had a look at his work. I found his work interesting however it did look quite complicated. I had a go at making some based on his work Desmemorias however they didn't go well and I threw them away. I now feel like I shouldn't of thrown them away because I could of put them up on the website and evaluated them to where I had gone wrong and learn from them and improve them more. Next i decided to have a look at an photographer called Michael Mapes and have a look at his work on fragments. I really like his work as it was quite simple to complete but they also looked different and intriguing to look at. They were quite unusual. I created a series of three images based on both Michael Mapes work and also adding the work of Lucas Simoes into it. I decided to use the overlapping of his work in the images and used the re-arranging of Michael's work in them too and came up with the images as seen below.
I firstly found photographer to look at like Lucas Simoes and had a look at his work. I found his work interesting however it did look quite complicated. I had a go at making some based on his work Desmemorias however they didn't go well and I threw them away. I now feel like I shouldn't of thrown them away because I could of put them up on the website and evaluated them to where I had gone wrong and learn from them and improve them more. Next i decided to have a look at an photographer called Michael Mapes and have a look at his work on fragments. I really like his work as it was quite simple to complete but they also looked different and intriguing to look at. They were quite unusual. I created a series of three images based on both Michael Mapes work and also adding the work of Lucas Simoes into it. I decided to use the overlapping of his work in the images and used the re-arranging of Michael's work in them too and came up with the images as seen below.
I used these set of images as my first Fragments final piece. This is because I was quite happy with them and felt like they had gone well. I've thought about the way i'm going to frame them and print them off and I've decided that i'm going to print them off on photographic paper and then frame them in a black and white frame as they are all in black and white form. After I had completed this first final piece, I was stuck on what I wanted to create next. So I had a look at some different photographers and their work. The first photographers I decided to look further at was Jeremy Tourvielle. I found out about him on my pinterest account by looking at different Fragment pieces of work. I really like Jeremy's work and the way he did his pieces. The problem I had was that there wasn't much work on fragments that he produced, in fact there was only two pieces he had created. His work was quite simple and was do-able. I had a go at making some images on fragments based on Jeremy's images and I think it came out alright but it wasn't the best.
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After this I decided to have ago at making some images on Photoshop. I tried combining two images together and also having a go at taking pats of one image and overlap them on top of another image creating the fragments. This didn't go to well and didn't work. So I went back onto the Pinterest account and also had a look at website for more inspiration. I ended up finding an photographer called Allison Diaz. I liked her work as it really fitted with the theme of Fragments and she also had a lot of work on it. This meant that I could really research her well and have a look at lots of different pieces she created to inspire and get ideas into my head on what I wanted to create next for my final pieces as I was really stuck and had no idea on what to create next. I liked the look of Allison's work and I really wanted to have a go at making a set of images based on hers. Her images are also what I first had in mind of doing when the theme of fragments came across. Her work also was a little like the images I had created before based on the work of Mapes and Simoes as it was mostly about overlapping the images one of top of the other in smaller shapes or pieces. What I also liked about her work was that it was based around one year (70's) and how she took images out of magazines to create them. I didn't get a chance to have a to have a go at making some images based on Allison's work, which is a shame because I was really getting excited to having a go at some but I think if we had more time or if I spent less time on worrying about where I go next and actually just heading straight onto another photographer and having another idea on what to make, then I definitely would've got a chance to have a go and create a new set of images.
Overall I am disappointed that I didn't have enough time to create another piece but I'm not upset on the work I have done. This project has definitely taught me that it is important on the way I decided to present my final pieces and that I need to get straight into it and do lots of experiments so that I don't run out of time at the end. I think that even though at one point I was completely mind blank on where to go next, I still carried on and managed to research a few more photographers and managed to get on. So overall I am pleased with this project and I did enjoy exploring and doing it.
Overall I am disappointed that I didn't have enough time to create another piece but I'm not upset on the work I have done. This project has definitely taught me that it is important on the way I decided to present my final pieces and that I need to get straight into it and do lots of experiments so that I don't run out of time at the end. I think that even though at one point I was completely mind blank on where to go next, I still carried on and managed to research a few more photographers and managed to get on. So overall I am pleased with this project and I did enjoy exploring and doing it.