Transformations

More blogging catch-up action.  We had to select an everyday object and apply seven transformations: SUBTRACTION, ADDITION, SYMMETRY, ASYMMETRY, DISTORTION, FRAGMENTATION and ABSTRACTION.  I went for eggs:

7 eggly sins...

Subtraction (above) - the contents have been removed through expert blowing...

Addition... 

Symmetry...

Asymmetry...

Distortion...

Fragmentation...

Abstration...

Keith Haring - project mentor

Keith Haring is my mentor for The Line project - so I have to have somehow apply his influence to my final design proposal.  During the studio session (back on the 17th March... yep, I'm playing blog catch-up), we had to select a favourite piece from our chosen mentor, describe their influences and identify comtemporaries that have shaped their style and methodology.

So here's Keith in his Tokyo Pop Shop - actually in the line... I picked him to induce some anarchy in my work!  Here a few concept models a that explore The Line...

The first quickie model was about tying Haring's influences together - artistic influences, popular culture, contemporaries, sex and drugs (the paper tubes). 

Then I was thinking about The Line in 3D and used ribbon to emphasise this while creating rhythm and movement.

Developing The Line in 3D, quite like how the ribbon falls and creates a dynamic of it own. The influences (tubes) are in a vertical orienation - I was thinking about the cityscape and using the ribbon as 'Haring's line', connecting spaces or landmarks.  

Linear Experiences Map

Following our walk through the line from North to South the previous week, we had to produce a 'Linear Experiences Map' - The thing that interested me in particular was the changing skyline and the appreciation of the sky in relationship to the urban environment.  Walking from Primrose Hill to the West End there is an increasing pressure that builds due to urban interventions such as planting, architecture, traffic and people.  People and architectural 'pressure' is indicated in the pink and orange ink respectively. The diminishing skyline is indicated by the blue ink.

I wanted to be a bit more freestyle with my drawing style... used a bamboo dip pen and indian ink. Quite tricky actually - the pens don't hold as much ink as I anticipated so my original idea of drawing  the scenes without taking the pen of then paper didn't really happen. I used Dr Ph. Martin's concentrated watercolor ink for the coloured bit - love the stuff!