During this week we are being thrown into a number of exercises, working in both two and three dimensions. The drawing exercises led by Glad yesterday afternoon were extremely refreshing; allowing us to focus on the connection between brain and hands rather than the outcome of any drawings we create.
I found that the blind portraits were particularly enlightening. Despite the fact that I have done them before it still astounds me how much I have to concentrate when making those drawings. My senses become heightened to every movement of my fingertips, and the sensation of my hands exploring on my face. Every imperfection in the skin, every tiny hair, the chapped skin on my lips seem like mountains and valleys that my hands are discovering with every movement, and every movement feels different. Surfaces change, rise and fall and I try to respond to this with marks on paper. What I would like to do is extend the exercise and create a full body portrait using this technique. How this will fit into my project work however I am not too sure, so I may put this idea to one side for the time being. Cardboard and wood were the only materials available to us for the exploration of three dimensions. I found myself looking at the most tired looking pieces of cardboard, the ones that others had made a point of avoiding. Something about the organic quality of the creases and folds that had been created drew me in. without realising quite what I was doing I began to follow these paths, bending and folding along them and securing them in place. What this resulted in was a collection of twisted, crumpled pieces which I am now in the process of attaching to one another. I hope that I can continue with this piece for the rest of the week and see how I can make the piece grow and evolve.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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