Structural Experimentation

At the start of the project I am currently working on, I was unsure of which way to pursue the theme of museum of self and identity. I chose to look at the structural side of Identity first. I started by doing small structural sketches using watercolour and biro. I drew these sketches onto pieces of paper that I had stuck together or crumpled up. I did this to create a structure in itself to draw onto. Following on from this, I wanted to look more into the shapes and structures that could be created with this method. I made some small-scale and large-scale sketches using this technique and I found that the pieces resembled a human-like figure. I then decided to experiment and look at the structure and the human body with the artists Wyndham Lewis and Michelangelo. I feel that the Vorticism movement uses shapes and lines in a similar way to the way I use them in my structural pieces. After looking at Michelangelo, I wanted to look at doing more realistic pieces focusing on the human body using different medias. I had not yet worked in 3D and wanted to explore structure using a different media. I chose to do a model of my hand in clay in a similar position to the position of the hand in my biro study. The work I am currently doing uses photography and light, I want to explore how I can use photography to represent the same structural effect as in my first studies. I feel that by using a strobe light and a long exposure I can create a fractured effect, which produces a structural shape. I plan to look more into the movement of the body when doing certain things and use this technique more to explore structure with the human body.

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