FREEDOM censorship

Being the first A2 sheet I produced and image I looked at, this is the basis for all my project. I wanted to look at censorship and freedom of speech from the start, but after I researched it and found this picture, it immediately had effect on me and made me realize that creating a metaphor for censorship was what I wanted to do. Here I have recreated the original image by Frank Miller the best I can, using ink and coloured ink like in the original. I feel I have achieved a number of similarities to the original drawing in the plasters and body of the woman. The hands however are distracting due to the strokes of the felt tip that I used. The background is also a different black to the ink used on the main figures. In hindsight then, I could have tested the media used before using it to determine whether it was adequate. 

Freedom exhibition

Here are some photos taken at the freedom / protest exhibition at the civic. I have taken the pieces I find most interesting to me and the ones I feel might inspire me in the freedom project. My favourite is the 5th one down due its likeness to 1940s propaganda.

cardboard city - Jonathan Borofski

Jordan Borofski is an American sculptor and painter. As a child he accompanied his mother, a trained architect, to weekly painting classes, where he was encouraged to draw freely and not in a traditional manner. He studied at Yale School of Art and Architecture, where his work was mainly sculptural. From the early 1970  s his central concern was to diminish the boundaries between life and art. From 1973 he made use of dreams, in drawings, paintings, sculptures, projected images, prints, and finally combinations of these in multi-media installations.


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cardboard city - Zoetrope

I cannot find any footage of my zoetrope in action, although I do have some photos. The basic premise of my zoetrope was to create an animation that occurred when it was spun by placing a string of pictures on a long piece of paper inside. I drew someone being shot and it worked quite well in the final outcome.

The Zoetrope is an an animated vintage toy that was originally developed in 1830 s. The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell improved Horner’s original design in 1868 by introducing concave lenses to the slits, eliminating distortion. Although patents for Zoetrope-like devices were registered in numerous countries from 1867, William F. Lincoln actually patented the name Zoetrope, in 1887, in the United States. In England, the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company sold a number of Wheel of Life or Zoetrope models.

cardboard city - Wire Frame Drawing

The wire frame drawing that i completed is not present here as the photos were lost. I created a person out of rubber coated thick wire and added a heart made out of red wire  attached to it. Along with all the others, I added mine to the Theatre D'Ombre based on Boltanski's work. Here is a picture of it:

cardboard city - Living sketchbook

Here is a documentation of the "living sketchbook" that i drew on the window of college. It shows a dinosaur/godzilla creature attacking the town hall with fire before a meteor kills it. It is a time lapse, and therefore time based media. It doesn't translate as well as it could have and a clearer message; the transition from beginning to end is messy and unclear. However it is effective and I feel I used the landscape of the picture to an advantage.

cardboard city - Mattisse photos