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FURTHER THOUGHTS...

I have looked at more work using personal objects that doesn't necessarily show breakdowns in communication within society, but can help me develop my ideas for designs.
Looking at Satawas work and combining Symone's ideas of light, I could take black and white photographs of my personal objects together and like in subtraction cutting, use the negative space within the photograph as the shape to cut out,to create the folds in the fabric.
I could also take the shapes created from the lightest through to the darkest part of the photographs and use these areas as the shapes to cut around, adjusting them to the size of the waist.These would then be placed on the fabric in order from light to dark (360),combining the idea of objects and light. If we use a sheer fabric it could possibly get thicker as you turn the garment or the tone could get darker.

SOPHIE CALLE

In 1981, Sophie Calle spent three weeks working as chambermaid in a hotel in Venice. This allowed her to spy on the guests. Like a detective or crime photographer, she photographs the momentarily unoccupied hotel rooms: the unmade or never slept in beds, the stray items left in bathrooms, the contents of suitcases and closets and she reads letters left lying in the open etc.

she wrote a diary of every object photographed and tryed to gain an idea of what the person was like who owned them.

Calle turns the viewer or reader into an accomplice of her voyeurism – filling them, too, with the urge to move unobserved through another’s private sphere. This works with my idea of process art (bringing it to life after it is viewed/shared)

Like with many of Sophie Calle’s works, photographs and texts exist in a circular self-referring structure: the objects that Calles mentions in the text are found again in the photographs, but their role as evidence is first established through the telling of the story, whose believability lies solely in the hands of the artist.

This has given me the idea to possibly look at other peoples personal objects?

FLORIAN SATAWA

Displaying one’s personal belongings in public might seem like an act of exhibitionism, yet in Florian Slotawa’s work, the act strangely surpasses the otherwise obvious personal associations and becomes a fascinating commentary on how objects and their function define space, identity, and the feeling of belonging.Where does one belong, but also what belongs to oneself? What meaning do objects carry? How do they define one’s perception of space?

I like the idea of putting the objects together to create different shape and ideas of space,that are asthetically pleasing. Satawa also photographs his work in black and white to show the shadows and light within space.This fits well when combining mine and symones ideas of incorporating my personal objects and her ideas on changing light.

I'd like maybe experiment more with the subtraction cutting method but with putting more than one object together to create new shapes and spaces.

SARAI GIAVITY

growing up in israel Gavity uses her personal experience to document and produce art in many forms on subjects like warfare,international security,privacy and human rights.

In an effort to secure the world against the evils of global terrorism,airport officials have exposed children,the handicapped and old ladies to rigorous and often embaressing searches.What are these dangerous people carrying with them?

Isralei artist Saraai Gavity has answered this question with an exhibition entitled 'privacy-what the fuck do you think I have in my bag?'.

she has used seductively secret and personal items in an x-ray style.The work gives you a glimpse in to what security officers might see through the eyes of an artist as her personal items,sex,drugs,gold and weapons are all decadently packed and vividly displayed,hidden within luggage.I think the idea of using nude bodies of women portrays the womb as they are in the fetal position-asif all life is being scrutanised.

"since septemper the 11th our national security issues,have not only insulted our privacy while exposing our personal affects,but also endangered our humanity and freedom"-Sarai Gavity

SUBTRACTION CUTTING&MY OWN PERSONAL OBJECTS

THOUGHTS SO FAR...

So far I have looked at work that shows artists own personal experience through different forms of documentation.I am mainly interested by the objects and materials that have been used.They are all personal,some directly relating to that certian experience portraying a breakdown in communication within society and in jean genets work for example to show emotion and sexuality. I'd like to look at objects that are personal to me and try to incorporate them in to my designs somehow.

RAISED BY WOLVES

Jim Goldberg a photographer spent ten years on the streets of San Francisco and LA documenting the city’s homeless teenagers. The documentation takes on many forms. the book entitled raised by wolves is part photojournalism, part novel, part movie, part comic, and part museum display. Inside the book different forms of communication, text and photography such as Polaroid’s ,the teenagers writing their thoughts, letters to estranged parents, clothing and objects are all documented but come together to tell a story, share an experience and give the teenagers a voice. Human nature, personal experience and breakdowns in communication and society are all elements covered in the book.

JEAN GENET-"UN CHANT D'AMOUR"

This film is one of my favourites.It looks at two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact.They devise an unusual kind of communication with each other and the guards through holes and the sharing of smoke. The film is completely silent and communication is reflected through circular movements and touching. The cinematography at the time was very innovative so much so that it was banned and Jenet denies ever making it.

Jean Genet himself was part of the Parisian existentialist movement in the late 1940's.He explores extremes in human behavior and experience and looks at faults within society. He was constantly persecuted and put in prison for being homosexual and a rent boy. The film is informed by his own personal life and like Eva Hesse he humanizes inanimate objects such as flowers,cigarettes and smoke which all have sexual connotations.

EVA HESSE

Her art is often viewed in light of all the painful struggles of her life including escaping the Nazis, her parents' divorce, the suicide of her mother when she was ten, her failed marriage and the death of her father.
Danto describes her as "coping with emotional chaos by reinventing sculpture through aesthetic insubordination, playing with worthless material amid the industrial ruins of a defeated nation that, only two decades earlier, would have murdered her without a second thought."

“My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.”

I like the idea of using personal experience to inform work. Eve Hesse manages to humanize what seem to others as inanimate objects that don’t necessarily portray obvious sentiment. She uses new processes and materials that apart from fibre glass have aged over the years however her work does not feel tragic, but mostly full of life and humour.

SUBTRACTION CUTTING

I found it really interesting to learn a new experimental method of cutting.unlike traditional methods of pattern cutting this technique works by cutting away the negative space.It is very much about experimentation and has a free feel to it. I'd like to experiment further with this technique to see what other shapes and forms it could take.However I don't want to purposely cut in the shapes to create a desired outcome,as not knowing what it will turn out like is part of the excitement and contributes to the idea of process art. I'd also like to look into other possible methods of cutting and construction.

PROCESS ART

The idea of process art-emphasis is on the process/journey rather than the final outcome.

I’d like to explore the idea that after the outcome the process continues .Anything created/thought is always personal and by displaying/saying it you are communicating that experience to inform yourself in the world and influence others, ultimately prolonging the process.

BRIEF

A language is a particular kind of system for encoding and decoding information.
During this project I will explore the idea of language and communication.
Interaction through touch, sound, movement and dialogue, should be explored, to inform research.
Research should seek to inform a design process that reflects a directional and forward approach that encompasses innovation within cutting, fabric and design.
You should engage with the ideas and methodology of Process Art.