Books found in the libray- semiotics, the psychology behind my studio practice.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN- THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE
PAUL COBLEY- INTRODUCING SEMIOTICS
ROLAND BARTHES- IMAGE MUSIC TEXT
INTERPRETIVE INTERACTIONISM - NORMAN K.DENZIN
Monday 26 October 2009
23.10.09 MONOGRAPH TUTORIAL WITH NICOLA
I had my tutorial with Nicola after submitting my synopsis for my monograph.
She gave me some really good feedback. I realised that I need to think about what the meaning is behind the art, behind the design. Researching indepth what signs and signals mean to me? what am I trying to say, what message am I trying to get across to the viewer?
What influences me?
what drives them to include semiotics? it may not look like my work or even be in the same context but the drive behind the work could be the same. I have emails for some of the artists I have looked at so Im going to email them and see if they wouldnt mind answering some questions on what influences them. It would be interesting to see if we have same topics in common.
Compare and contrast
I have some artists I've found whose work is similar to mine VISUALLY- the mark makings, the colours, the use of text. But I can compare and contrast the meanings behind the work to my own.
Making new signs
Nicola pointed out that I've started making my own signs, but what does i sign need to control people? a certain shape? colour? size? material? how does it communicate and make people do something they wouldnt do without the aid of that particular sign, what would happen if they didnt?
She gave me some really good feedback. I realised that I need to think about what the meaning is behind the art, behind the design. Researching indepth what signs and signals mean to me? what am I trying to say, what message am I trying to get across to the viewer?
What influences me?
- A past project?
- memories
- controlling
- influencing
- urban scenes
- what drives me to make my art?
- making my own signs?
- controlling the city?
- observing the city?
what drives them to include semiotics? it may not look like my work or even be in the same context but the drive behind the work could be the same. I have emails for some of the artists I have looked at so Im going to email them and see if they wouldnt mind answering some questions on what influences them. It would be interesting to see if we have same topics in common.
Compare and contrast
I have some artists I've found whose work is similar to mine VISUALLY- the mark makings, the colours, the use of text. But I can compare and contrast the meanings behind the work to my own.
Making new signs
Nicola pointed out that I've started making my own signs, but what does i sign need to control people? a certain shape? colour? size? material? how does it communicate and make people do something they wouldnt do without the aid of that particular sign, what would happen if they didnt?
20.10.09 GROUP TUTORIAL WITH DIONNE
STUDIO PRACTICE DISCUSSION
This was done in groups of three. We all gave out feed back on each others work, I was with two other printers (Naomi and Lizzy)
I started off by saying Id bought three big sheets of plastic that I plan to print onto. Also I had found out how much it would cost to print photographs, images, photoshops onto paper - and how big this could potentionally be.
I got a lot of very positive feed back that gave me that push to move on from the research stage to actually printing ideas and technique.
We all decided the best option was to cut one piece of plastic sheet into smaller pieces to sample on, try out and push this new material in many different ways.
This could be done by:
This was done in groups of three. We all gave out feed back on each others work, I was with two other printers (Naomi and Lizzy)
I started off by saying Id bought three big sheets of plastic that I plan to print onto. Also I had found out how much it would cost to print photographs, images, photoshops onto paper - and how big this could potentionally be.
I got a lot of very positive feed back that gave me that push to move on from the research stage to actually printing ideas and technique.
We all decided the best option was to cut one piece of plastic sheet into smaller pieces to sample on, try out and push this new material in many different ways.
This could be done by:
- wax onto the plastic, then screen print
- laser cut
- scratch into the plastic
- heat gun, soldering iron
- screen print then morph the plastic in product design
- print onto both sides the morph, then scratch
- paint with acrylics
- spray paint
- frosting
- opaque paint.block out
- bendy masking tape
- glass paint, glass pen
- thinner plastic, acetate?
19.10.09 MONOGRAPH NOTES
ROBERT CLARKE (WEEK 4)
psychogeography- is a semi-occult art and a way to learn more about the world you live in.
Robert brought this up in the lecture and gave us many websites to look at, quite a few of the printers are also looking into this topic of the city, urban environment and its quite interesting to see how they approach this topic differently to me.
http://www.enjoy-surveillance.org/
Observing and being Observed.
It fits into my subject area, im observing the city, taking photos drawing, printing and looking at how signs in the city can influence people.
About writing the monograph
short sentences
memories - pick out, remember moments in studio practice that stand out
feelings create and recreate them through art
bringing meanings toegther
images against a process - material and technique
what and how? the aim?
whats the point of technique? - desire to be different? stand out? develop a style? whats the point in style? people remember? put a style to a name?fame?
experience, looking, reading, learning...
prolog- talking about yourself
writing down what your doing/thinking analytically
psychogeography- is a semi-occult art and a way to learn more about the world you live in.
Robert brought this up in the lecture and gave us many websites to look at, quite a few of the printers are also looking into this topic of the city, urban environment and its quite interesting to see how they approach this topic differently to me.
http://www.enjoy-surveillance.org/
Observing and being Observed.
It fits into my subject area, im observing the city, taking photos drawing, printing and looking at how signs in the city can influence people.
- Social semiotics - George Orwell. Signs and signals
- shaping and changing the city
- posters stimulated by what we see
- imaginarymuseum/archieve.org
- language and film
- guide books, maps, imaginary city
About writing the monograph
short sentences
memories - pick out, remember moments in studio practice that stand out
feelings create and recreate them through art
bringing meanings toegther
images against a process - material and technique
what and how? the aim?
whats the point of technique? - desire to be different? stand out? develop a style? whats the point in style? people remember? put a style to a name?fame?
experience, looking, reading, learning...
prolog- talking about yourself
writing down what your doing/thinking analytically
14.10.09 SYNOPSIS WITH ROBERT CLARKE
I had a tutorial with Robert about my synopsis I had written up for my monograph.
He looked through what I had noted down and looked at my work up in the studio. He said I had enough themes, questions and topics to talk about but I need to think about
He looked through what I had noted down and looked at my work up in the studio. He said I had enough themes, questions and topics to talk about but I need to think about
- other artists that use signs and signals
- how technology has an influence on my work, how it changes a drawing,a design, looks different when it comes out of a computer
- why urban scenes?
- illustration artists, graphic artists? look at jornals in library
- album covers - Radio head Don Wood
- languages
- public space- different to a gallery
- scale and perception
- computer - zoom in zoom out macro + micro
- Jasper Johns - iconic image
- Rauschenberg
- layering, techniques, different stages of my practice- Print
- limitations using the computer? using text? - lost communication with the viewer are they seeing the same thing Im trying to say?
- Hay wayne? posters?
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Tutorial with Dionne
Printing onto plastic
It was suggested that I wasn't going to be printing onto fabric for this exhibition. I was going to print most of it onto paper and maybe consider plastic.
However it was pushed forward and decided by both me and Dionne that I was going to screen print, stencil and paint my designs onto plastic.
I can print onto both sides, so it becomes a blurred image?
block bits out with collage
use vinyl lettering
glass frosting
layering plastic over photographs of urban scenes.
Im really excited about this project and the possibilites it has.
It was suggested that I wasn't going to be printing onto fabric for this exhibition. I was going to print most of it onto paper and maybe consider plastic.
However it was pushed forward and decided by both me and Dionne that I was going to screen print, stencil and paint my designs onto plastic.
I can print onto both sides, so it becomes a blurred image?
block bits out with collage
use vinyl lettering
glass frosting
layering plastic over photographs of urban scenes.
Im really excited about this project and the possibilites it has.
Design with Nicola
Today we had a task to complete within the design group.
we got paired with someone who had to same kind of idea of what it meant to research TREND. I got paired with julie who had the same inspirations, such as digital print, CAD, illustrations and advertsising. She also specialises in print.
Even though her work is very different to mine and she has different questions to answer within her drawings, prints and concepts, we worked very well together and came up with some good ideas.
We researched trends for 2010 by looking at WGSN website through blackboard. We picked out current themes within this one top that stood out for us both.
some of the themes we came up with....
Graphic design Vs vintage: we linked this with how posters have changed due to the influence of technology. Vintage posters would have been hand painted years ago, and now this has moved on to advertsing on CD covers using CAD.
Graphic design and the mix of textiles, this certain top had both graphic design influences/techniques and textile influences/techniques.
this is a current issue within my work that I want to resolve. Is my work still textile crafts? I'm not using concentional materials when it comes to textile crafts, im not working on fabric, but plastic.
It was a very insightful exercise today, to see how people could come up with so many different ideas and concepts under the topic of TREND. and how trend effects other artists works. Some people focus on colour, some a word, or some a concept theme.
The session was finished by presentations from all the groups. Each group was different and also a individual presentation was given to how we would change the group ideas on trend, to fit into our own research. So it was also a good chance to fit in some extra research for our projects :)
we got paired with someone who had to same kind of idea of what it meant to research TREND. I got paired with julie who had the same inspirations, such as digital print, CAD, illustrations and advertsising. She also specialises in print.
Even though her work is very different to mine and she has different questions to answer within her drawings, prints and concepts, we worked very well together and came up with some good ideas.
We researched trends for 2010 by looking at WGSN website through blackboard. We picked out current themes within this one top that stood out for us both.
some of the themes we came up with....
Graphic design Vs vintage: we linked this with how posters have changed due to the influence of technology. Vintage posters would have been hand painted years ago, and now this has moved on to advertsing on CD covers using CAD.
Graphic design and the mix of textiles, this certain top had both graphic design influences/techniques and textile influences/techniques.
this is a current issue within my work that I want to resolve. Is my work still textile crafts? I'm not using concentional materials when it comes to textile crafts, im not working on fabric, but plastic.
It was a very insightful exercise today, to see how people could come up with so many different ideas and concepts under the topic of TREND. and how trend effects other artists works. Some people focus on colour, some a word, or some a concept theme.
The session was finished by presentations from all the groups. Each group was different and also a individual presentation was given to how we would change the group ideas on trend, to fit into our own research. So it was also a good chance to fit in some extra research for our projects :)
Monday 12 October 2009
Ubych - found on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubych/3962980048/in/pool-86748753@N00
I really like this artist. Ubych as they are known on Flickr, uses lots of different mark makings and lines composed together, white on black you can't always tell what they are, is it architecture? urban scenes? or just random scribbling?
There are lots of different textures going on, some are watery, some are scribbles. There are also signs within the pieces, letters, notes, diagrams...
I was just wondering, what drives them to create their art? I cant see a definate message in the pieces but if i was to know some or part of the context it would lead to many more questions about this persons work.
I really like this artist. Ubych as they are known on Flickr, uses lots of different mark makings and lines composed together, white on black you can't always tell what they are, is it architecture? urban scenes? or just random scribbling?
There are lots of different textures going on, some are watery, some are scribbles. There are also signs within the pieces, letters, notes, diagrams...
I was just wondering, what drives them to create their art? I cant see a definate message in the pieces but if i was to know some or part of the context it would lead to many more questions about this persons work.
some of my work so far
similarties between mine and Kim becks work
and the artist Collin Jenkinson
The graphic lines, use of typography, Urban scenes.
SMALL BIBLIOGRAPHY
KIM BECK
BANKSY
BOOK- THE ADVENTURES OF DARIUS AND DOWNEY
BOOK-FRESH AIR SMELLS FUNNY URBAN ART BOOK
(some very interesting quotes about exhibiting work outside insted of in a gallery)
BOOK- VISIBLE SIGNS
LITTLE BLACK BOOK- COLLIN JENKINSON
BANKSY
BOOK- THE ADVENTURES OF DARIUS AND DOWNEY
BOOK-FRESH AIR SMELLS FUNNY URBAN ART BOOK
(some very interesting quotes about exhibiting work outside insted of in a gallery)
BOOK- VISIBLE SIGNS
LITTLE BLACK BOOK- COLLIN JENKINSON
ARTIST SUGGESTED BY ROBERT CLARKE
while in todays monograph lecture the artist KIM BECK was mentioned.
I've already noted her down on my delicious page.
Her context is very similar to mine. She creates prints of urban environments printing sketches of road signs, pilons, buildings, roadside structures ect.
Here are some quotes I took down as Robert was talking about her work
'Abstracted from the real'
'rhymictic quality of the lines'
'subtle differences'
'not to regular'
'oblique turning'
'emptiness'
'shes taken a theme and worked on it in many different ways, living in an urban environment.'
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heres an example of one of her works, you can see now how Roberts quotes really describe these prints.There like silhoettes of road signs jumbled together. Quite graphic and linear which I always like.
I've already noted her down on my delicious page.
Her context is very similar to mine. She creates prints of urban environments printing sketches of road signs, pilons, buildings, roadside structures ect.
Here are some quotes I took down as Robert was talking about her work
'Abstracted from the real'
'rhymictic quality of the lines'
'subtle differences'
'not to regular'
'oblique turning'
'emptiness'
'shes taken a theme and worked on it in many different ways, living in an urban environment.'
heres an example of one of her works, you can see now how Roberts quotes really describe these prints.There like silhoettes of road signs jumbled together. Quite graphic and linear which I always like.Love this image, I have a lot of refrences to lines in my work, I think its what gives it that graphic look. clean cut, straight and neat.![]()
Monograph WEEK 3 Robert Clarke
I've just finished a lecture on our monograph, it was mainly to help us complete our synopsis by WEDNESDAY 14TH oct.
Robert gave us lots of different ways of talking about and explaining our work. For example what drives us to do what we do? Culture, history, tradition?
There was a lot of refrences to the thought processes made while creating our work, and what direction that leads us to. Is it the choice of materials? or is it the excitment of uncovering a meaning that was'nt there at the start, but gradually unfolds as we complete a collection.
play and create- two words that came up as a inspiration, and what pushes me to create my particular collection now. The play on words within the signs, creating new signs and how this has an effect on urban landscapes. It all fits in with humour and persuadsion- as I mentioned before.
Technology- Plays a big part in my work and is what drives me to create new, fresh, original ideas.
Ever expanding technology and digital communications often changes artists works. Before I started working with Photoshop and got confident enough to produce final pieces of work, my work last year looked completely different and sent out a totally different message. It potrayed me as a different artist altogether. But now I've found a practice that really fits me and helps me communicate better through my work, I feel my work as a whole has improved from the last two years at university studying textile crafts.
However I don't want to stop there, I don't want to hold back and hesitate away from trying other new technology and programms. I don't want to think that this is it, I've found something that works for me and gets me the end results that I wanted.
I am trying to express a certain style within my work, this being graphic, edgy, stylish new and fresh - and the best way to achieve this is through the use of technology. However my first initial drawings are always crafted by using traditional materials such as pen, ink paper. Without this first stage of sketching ideas I could never complete the journey up to designing.
These are a few ideas I could note down and maybe consider putting them into my monograph.
Robert gave us lots of different ways of talking about and explaining our work. For example what drives us to do what we do? Culture, history, tradition?
There was a lot of refrences to the thought processes made while creating our work, and what direction that leads us to. Is it the choice of materials? or is it the excitment of uncovering a meaning that was'nt there at the start, but gradually unfolds as we complete a collection.
play and create- two words that came up as a inspiration, and what pushes me to create my particular collection now. The play on words within the signs, creating new signs and how this has an effect on urban landscapes. It all fits in with humour and persuadsion- as I mentioned before.
Technology- Plays a big part in my work and is what drives me to create new, fresh, original ideas.
Ever expanding technology and digital communications often changes artists works. Before I started working with Photoshop and got confident enough to produce final pieces of work, my work last year looked completely different and sent out a totally different message. It potrayed me as a different artist altogether. But now I've found a practice that really fits me and helps me communicate better through my work, I feel my work as a whole has improved from the last two years at university studying textile crafts.
However I don't want to stop there, I don't want to hold back and hesitate away from trying other new technology and programms. I don't want to think that this is it, I've found something that works for me and gets me the end results that I wanted.
I am trying to express a certain style within my work, this being graphic, edgy, stylish new and fresh - and the best way to achieve this is through the use of technology. However my first initial drawings are always crafted by using traditional materials such as pen, ink paper. Without this first stage of sketching ideas I could never complete the journey up to designing.
These are a few ideas I could note down and maybe consider putting them into my monograph.
Sunday 11 October 2009
IDEAS
OVER THE WEEKEND
Persuasion and Humour
These are the two words I want to feature in my compostions.
I came up with a few ideas.
I want to include some textile crafts refrences within my work.
Insted of work starts here at such a date...maybe Knitting/sewing/drawing/designing starts here as a sign on the side of the road
No parking......No Knitting/sewing/drawing/designing
Give way to artists as a sign
Services one mile....insted of signs of food, signs of paint brushes, needles, paint pots
P - sign for parking.... P- painting
Unleaded petrol.....Unthreaded!! someone filling up a car with a gaint needle!
designers crossing with a big pelican carrying loads of art equipment
Red- Go Green-stop
One way sign......anyway you like??
One way sign into the studio.....talented artists this way
Rocks falling.......
Overview of theme
Im currently part way through my 3rd project of my Textiles Crafts Degree. Ive come up with the idea of using signs and signals as a context. Ive been making sketches of urban scenes and playing around with compostions/mark makings/different ways of printing.
Heres an example:
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This was done on photoshop, pasting my drawings into an image underneath. There are a few other examples shown on my Flickr. page.
Now I've had a few weeks of designing and drawing I really need to think about what context these would work in, and what environment I see them in.
I need to go back and ask why I chose signs and signals, and what I want my overall collection/project to say and communicate with the viewer.
Im currently part way through my 3rd project of my Textiles Crafts Degree. Ive come up with the idea of using signs and signals as a context. Ive been making sketches of urban scenes and playing around with compostions/mark makings/different ways of printing.
Heres an example:
Now I've had a few weeks of designing and drawing I really need to think about what context these would work in, and what environment I see them in.
I need to go back and ask why I chose signs and signals, and what I want my overall collection/project to say and communicate with the viewer.
My other websites
http://delicious.com/Leonaheeneytextilesprint - I use this as like an online visual diary. If i see an artist or image I like I'll note it down on my Delicious page. Its good to keep track of where all the images come from, instead of getting all confused when it comes to my bibliography.
http://sampletc.ning.com/profile/LeonaHeeney - This is another social network group creating within our textiles crafts circle. Its a way of sharing images, websites, books and jornals. In our third year we all know each other and share ideas and research.
http://sampletc.ning.com/profile/LeonaHeeney - This is another social network group creating within our textiles crafts circle. Its a way of sharing images, websites, books and jornals. In our third year we all know each other and share ideas and research.
Saturday 10 October 2009
10 OCTOBER 2009
SETTING UP
I've just set up a Flickr account (http://www.flickr.com/people/leonaheeneytextilesprint/) and I decided to create an online blog to note down all my thoughts while experiencing my 3rd year at Huddersfield University studying textile crafts.
I've just set up a Flickr account (http://www.flickr.com/people/leonaheeneytextilesprint/) and I decided to create an online blog to note down all my thoughts while experiencing my 3rd year at Huddersfield University studying textile crafts.
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