Week 10: Final Artwork

Having started to develop my concept through the use of paper, I have now arrived at a composition to take forward to final artwork.

 

The process used for the final artwork, although time consuming conveys the concept of the project successfully. The multiple layers depicted within the piece reperesnt the progressive nature of the lie and also the levels to which people within the story are so heavily influened by what they have been told and are seeing: ultimately the Emperor walking naked down the street.

The whiteness of the artwork adds depths to the piece as it does not deter from the overall effect and also has a direct link again to the concept. The fact that the artwork is not completely visible to the passing viewer highlights the fact that people know this is a blatant lie but cannot necessarily see the truth. I suppose the whiteness of the piece also relates to the innocence of the young child and his inability to realise that everyone is going along with the sharad. However, as this was not highlighted previously within my development process I cannot state this as being one of the focal points of the concept. In spite of this, if I was to develop the project further or take another approach, looking into the innocence of the child would be an interesting concept to develop.

 

advanced stage of the process

 



Working with paper

The next process experimented with was paper cut outs and layering. This is a process that I have worked with previously, but only briefly touched on. I felt the work I was producing with the string circle/coil was becoming rather static and not getting anywhere in terms of a possible final artwork. The relevance of this approach, as you will see is the idea of the continuation and alteration of the lie throughout the story.

adaptation of string coil/cirlce

looking more at depth

moving away from circle and looking more at the imagery of the ripple itself

 

Throughout the course this project I have been focusing more on the circle aspect of the ripple rather than what a ripple actually looks like. The different wayas in which it moves and expands. As I am using the ripple effect as my inspiration I felt that moving in this direction would be more successful, especially with regrds to a possible final artwork.

 

The experimental pieces documented above are my first attempts at working with a more complex composition. The use of the different layers and shapes within each piece is very interesting and an aspect that I am interested in developing for this project. The image above I find to be the most successful, conceptually and aesthetically and as a result will be taking this one forward for the further development into a final artwork.



Update

In my previous blog I was looking at the embossing process and how its relevance coincided with the concept of the project. First attempt was a basic approach, I developed this process further by making a plate that was sustainable for embossing.

 

This imgery is also inspired by images of the ripple and the concept of the ripple effect: the knock on effect of a sequence of events.

 

 

 

The images documented above are examples of the plates created in order to process the embossed images. What I tend to focus on within my work is the approach of repetition and as I have began to notice, i tend to move towards to the use of circles within my work to convey my concept. I also worked with other compositions using the same process as documented above.

 

Basic mixed media approach: overlap of ink and string

breakdown of image through ink tranfer

colour overlap

mulitple artwork through colour exploration

 

As you can see here, I have developed my initial composition using sections of my plate. I also wanted to experiment with the use of colour within the project in order to add depth to the project. Material used was basic indian ink onto the plate. This created interesting shapes as the entire image was not transfered onto the paper. I found this to be successful as the broken down images relates directly the story and the lie that is integrated throughout the story.

 

Fron using thse images I progress on to emboss the image, however this approach was not successful. This could be down to a couple of factors, such as; the press used was a book press rather than the powered press usually used, paper not soaked enough. Material used was basic cartridge paper, another factor contributing the failure of the emboss.