THe ABC Project________

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EERO HINTSANEN

MARGIT HART 

CAROLINA HORNAUER

Text in Form ______DAY 3

My head just did not seem to be firing at all yesterday. Hence, why I am blogging about it today. I couldn't seem to hold a thought which was very frustrating! 

Luckily Michael was on hand to ignite my imagination again. He really got me thinking about my first quote;

               "Curiosity killed the cat. And nature can be most brutal"

I had kind of lost sight of this through working mainly on the erosion theme...shown below

The reverse...

Both Michael and myself have identified my NEED to add colour to my work. Before I added the ink to the erosion piece it looked amazing in just WHITE. However, I had that urge to do more! For the rest of this project I am going to challenge myself to adhere to Less is more. I feel that sometimes if something is plain I somehow associate it to not working as hard??? I think I am eager to impress and that somehow is delivered by over developing an idea. I suppose the more confident I become I will be able to sit back and say "no i am done, this is it". Until then I will make a conscious effort to become more relaxed in my efforts. 

Anyhoo enough reflecting and back to yesterdays food for thought. So I have been thinking more now about CURIOSITY. In particular children's curiosity and the toys that have been developed to encourage this.....

Also, I have been thinking of "killed the cat" obviously I wouldn't want my wearable object to kill anyone but the idea of sometimes curiosity leading to something bad is interesting. So possibly thinking about a wearable object that inflicts a little pain or discomfort. Following along the lines of Designer Tiffany Parbs....

                                      

I like the idea of simplistic shapes and a sort of "russian roulette" style game aspect. 

I feel refreshed and excited again about this brief. I felt that the route I was following was not experimental enough and was leading to something pretty but dull. And first year should be a time to experiment with the weird and wonderful! 

The ABC Project________

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ANTONELLA GIOMARELLI 

GABRIELLE DESMARAIS 

DOBLER GEORG

The ABC Project________

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SHONA FIDGETT

PAUL FINCH

GILL FORSBROOK

Text in Form ______DAY 2

I've been researching my initial idea. Whilst thinking about "natures brutality" I remembered another quote that I had liked from the book;

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts."

So with this now in mind I have thought about TEARS - RAIN - EROSION. I feel that the choice of rain as the brutality of nature linked in nicely with this new quote. Also, I like the exposing of layers that rain erosion causes and feel this replicates the layers of book very effectively. 

Currently I am attempting to create a layered erosion effect within my sketch book. It is taking some time but is starting to look the part.

The ABC Project_______

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ELIZABETH BONE

PAULINE EDIE

ELIZABETH BOYD HARTMANN

Who new?? BOOK ART! _____

Part of my brief is to manipulate a book so I've had a quick "google" and discovered a whole knew type of Art that I was unaware of____BOOK ART. 


Below are some of my favourites: 


CARER BARER

GEORGIA RUSSELL

BRIAN DETTMER

ROBERT THE

SU BLACKWELL

THOMAS ALLEN

TAKESHI ISHIGURO

VERONICA AND ISAAC SALAZAR