Also this week I continued to focus on my compositions that I had started last week. I focused on how the forms interacted as well has how many forms were interacting. Along with interactions I thought about size when I was creating these figures. The whole idea behind the forms is the interaction between my mother and I so I started to make figures representing us as individuals through their size in relation to each other. Also I created some compositions where you would be looking at the figures from farther away and can see more of the figure as in contrast I created some compositions were I would be viewed as if you were looking up close at these figures being able to see every detail. Below are some of the compositions I ended up creating.
Also at the end of this week I was able to sit down with the professors and get some new perspectives which was really helpful. I started by hanging up my compositions in a 2 by 4 grid on the wall and this brought up some new questions and ideas. Initially I was creating these compositions as individual pieces that would just collectively go together in the end, but once I saw them all together I looked at it in a different way. In an example below there were new figures that were beginning to interact and create new forms. Also a new complexity was beginning to arise and it overall started to create something more dynamic and interesting, exactly like the relationship I am basing this entire project off of.
Also during this conversation the idea of turning all these graphite drawings into prints was discussed again. I was starting to see it while playing with the different prints but the question of does this need to really be turned into prints necessary? By taking these drawings and going through the method of creating prints the overall figures and compositions were losing something. The prints were just not as successful as what I wanted and as what I initially saw in the drawings. So at this point I am going to go buy some rally nice drawing paper, nice pencils and start creating drawings pulled from previous compositions I have done and new compositions. I am just going to continue drawing and see what comes of it.
Heather, I think that you've made some really good progress since the last time I saw your work. I think that a lot of the square compositions you've made are working successfully- you've activated the space along the edges as well as internally. I find them more interesting to look at now that there's variety in the placement on the page. It's interesting that each one has a different feel.
ReplyDeleteI think they look better as individual comps, rather than putting them together at the end, just because it feels more disconnected.
-Leah
I like that you have cropped the images as well and the square shapes work nicely. I am not sure they go well together in a block in your last image though. My eye wants the figures to continue fluidly from sheet to sheet and it is a bit jarring when they stop at the edge and another one begins.
ReplyDeleteI love the forms. I think they are great and their fluidity is great to reflect the different states or stages in your relationship. I was a bit confused in a couple of your images though. I thought it was just about your mom and yourself, but it seems like you are introducing more figures in some of the sketches. It works, but I am not sure if there are new characters being introduced in those.
I think the drawings are very nice and converting them to prints would lose something. Not to say don't try it, but there is something more personal to drawing these relationships by hand.
We have talked about your project, so I just want to add that I really like this idea of composing and letting the viewer make connections from drawing to drawing. Otherwise keep up the hard work buddy.
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