Sunday 19 May 2013

OPEN DOOR with Shantona

Session 7

Today we continued from last week – making our own vase, inspired by Michael Brenand Wood’s work (MBW). We decorated our base with beads, buttons and worked with wire to attach the felt pieces and the wax shavings inside it.  It was fun working with the wire and lots of other materials but was also a little messy.



It was interesting to see how the different pieces started forming shape once they were attached together. You could see the links to MBW work and how he uses interesting shapes/objects to form his pieces.


Rozi introduced the animation side of it, this looked very interesting -  we were all looking forward to having our pieces pictured in order to create interesting effects. A little like the patterns we had seen in MBW work – Rozi lead us to an area where she had set up a space for the photographs to be taken on the ipad.  

The kaleidoscope setting in the Photo Booth app. helped create patterns from our work. We took about 20 photos each, moving the camera little by little around the objects. This created weird patterns in a sequence which will play back in a movie clip, as an abstract animation.


At the end of the session we revisited MBW work and Musarat asked everyone to bring in 3 small objects which could be used for the next stage of the project – making canvases.
We are looking forward to the canvas activity – we will be revisiting the felt technique and will be introduced to other new techniques to use.

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