Whilst volunteering at the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre, Kate, one of the founders of the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre, asked me to design some drawings of the Big 5 animals for a chitenge design, commissioned by the President of Malawi as part of the Stop Wildife Crime campaign.
It’s the early hours of the morning, and I am sat watching endless episodes of Gossip Girl (the first season), whilst I attempt to do some work for my Pre-Major Project in five days. Fuck.
Just to add to the shittyness (yes that is a word, in my head!) that is the final week before a deadline, every 15 minutes my photoshop decides to quit. Not ideal the first time when you haven’t saved the file yet. I hate technology!
My rant continues. Oh yes. I am also a pissed off student at the fact I got kicked off the computers in the studio today at university because of a workshop for the level 5 students, WHO by the way, handed in their project last week! Ridiculous! When us level 6’s have a bloody deadline next week! I do not pay £8000+ a year for this shit. Or apparently I do. I cannot wait to get out of education, because at the moment it is a great big pile of shit. (Apologies for all profanities and ranting.)
So with only five more days to go until my deadline, and only three more days until my print deadline, here are the beginnings of my concertina book I am hopefully going to have as my final piece. My original idea from two months ago has changed somewhat, simplified a lot and still needs working at. Take a look, enjoy the show and wish me luck.
After a group tutorial this morning, and a mini panic attack on the weekend (I’m starting to crack under pressure), I have some more ideas to carry on with my project. With my hand-in looming closer (16 days, fuck!) I need to get my ass into gear and complete a finished product.
Over the next two weeks I am going to create landscapes using abstract shapes, silhouettes and cut out shapes within the landscape. My end product will be a foldout, concertina booklet, that explores a continuous geometric form within the landscapes, as well as looking at pattern and texture. With the concertina form, I could start out with smaller geometric shapes that get larger.
Below are some cut out pages from National Geographic with some of my own patterns, textures and geometric experiments within the cut outs.
After a mini tutorial with my tutor last week, he helped me to stop over thinking and start having fun with my work. After hand-making some textures, I scanned them in to my computer. My tutor then sat and helped me to play around with cutting, pasting, playing with textures, using geometric shapes and changing the colour and opacity of images to create some digital collages.
These collages explore the landscape and photographs I took whilst on my two week trek over the summer in America. Through using hand-made textures and cutting out geometric shapes, I am adding another element to my photographs, highlighting how I saw the places through my eyes, and exaggerating the colours and shapes that really made these landscapes amazing and so memorable to me.
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