Manifesto
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As a designer I have accomplished and designed a nostalgic, and an noir style depicted through my 9 materialisms. The importance is shown through personal and subjective emotions and are explored through the detail and textural foreshadowing. The mixture and hybrids begins to develop an aesthetically pleasing tone and a strong intuition of moods, intentions and values.
I’m very passionate on experimenting with drawings and being very physical and creative as this has made my final development functional.
Chosen Words
STIMULI A
image
- Eerie
- Alienated
- Noir
STIMULI B
form
- Distortion
- Surreal
- Illusion
STIMULI A
Quinoa 2006, motion picture, Absurda, Los Angeles.
Quinoa is a performance by an American movie director David Lynch. The performance depicts David Lynch describing his method of cooking quinoa while telling a story towards the audience, a story of a summer from 1965. This video describes the form and images to be noir, scaled and having an eerie feeling throughout the whole video. The camera is handheld which captivates the viewer to be in the surrounding of the kitchen.
STIMULI B
Christo and Jean Claude 1997-1998. Wrapped trees (Project for the Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Switzerland).
Wrapped trees is a work from Christo and Jean Claude, a work process for a sculptural masterwork named Wrapped Trees. This environmental artwork depicts a series of work process from sketches, paintings, photographs and the final design of their project. The image and forms contain Distortion, illusion, environmental and its shapes are abstract depending on the viewer, delicate and sharp.
Process
materialisations
Image A
Eerie
adjective
strange and frightening.
Final Design
Developed drawing the eye with detail and a simplistic surrounding
The eye itself unsettles the viewer by its detail and
how its placed in the centre and nothing else around it.
First experimentation
- A drawing of a baby angel statue with wings
- Eyes pointed towards the viewer
Second experimentation
- Deciding to draw an eye in the centre of my frame
- needed more detail
Form A
Distortion
noun
the action of distorting or the state of being distorted.
Final Design
I developed the paint to be a bit thicker and to overlap the image leaving a slight outline of
the face where cut it out of a magazine. I also covered the whole frame with the person's
skin colour and distorting the face
and adding black to create a mysterious look.
First experimentation
- I cut out the face off a magazine and added paint on a flat surface (paper)
- Though the meaning wasn't strong enough
Second experimentation
- I experimented with collage and paper texture and colours
- I distorted the human figure by replacing the head with random letters cut out of magazines
Image & Form
Final Design
I digitally drew on Photoshop a face with hands, as the eyes was sewn by
black wool in a never ending loop creating an unsettling eerie and distortional image.
First experimentation
- I experimented with string and sewing techniques
- I sewed through paper creating strange and distortional figures
The full face for Eerie and Distortion
- Digital Drawing
Image B
Alienated
adjective
experiencing or inducing feelings of isolation or estrangement
Final Design
I drew a detailed bee in the centre of my frame on paper with a plastic bag material covering
the frame. Bee symbolises the being, being trapped by either smoke or a metaphoric border as it
experiences isolation.
First experimentation
- I watched a couple of old cartoons/animations from Betty Boop to Disney.
I chose a scene from Disney's Hell's Bells (1929) Silly Symphony animation a demon and a
devil. I wanted to portray the demon to be isolated by its own thoughts which was the
devil.
Second experimentation
- I experimented with paint/block ink in a class activity
- I painted multiple heads that looked distortional as portraying the head in the centre being alienated
by its own thoughts, each head being unusual.
Form B
Surreal
adjective
having the qualities of surrealism; bizarre.
Final Design
I wanted to express surreal by printing an old painting The Fall of the Rebel Angels 1665,
Luca Giordano and placing laughing faces//theatrical face masks around the subject in the
centre.
This Renaissance artwork is rendered through the placement of laughing faces by creating a
dreamy and realistic mixture. The masks have shading to enhance importance towards the
painting
First experimentation
- I drew an image with a woman holding one of the famous sculpture piece Statue of David's
face covering her crotch.
- I wanted to enhance bizarreness of the word surreal, defining the image of having traditional
old art being sexualised in modern society instead of appreciating it's originality
- This experimentation aimed towards more on the word controversial.
Second experimentation
- In an in-class activity I experimented on still life photography
- I mixed and arranged a number of items found placing them in the centre and playing around
with the light
Third experimentation
- I arranged objects and mixing them making them become something unusual
- the banana and flower in a cup made me gain inspiration on using natural materials or objects,
a naturalistic feel.
Image & Form
Final Design
I sewed on a spider on a brown nude coloured fabric, cutting and slicing holes around the spider
and painting them black.
I had the fabric nude, brown and dull coloured to match with form A.
The spider is the being, alienated, whilst the environment is nonsensical and jarring.
First experimentation
- I sewed on the black spider with wool on fabric in a corner
- surrounding the spider are B&W, scaled paper moths.
- I wanted to focus more on a noir tone
Image C
Noir
noun
a genre of crime film or fiction characterised by cynicism, fatalism, and moral ambiguity.
Final Design
For the word noir I decided to make an old photograph and place it alongside a used cigarette
with a lipstick stain on it.
I wanted to emphasis cinematic noir films through colour and mostly used objects within the
style of these films.
First experimentation
- I used an image and precisely cut off the windows while placing clear plastic sheet on top as
a textural feel.
- Though I thought this was not strong enough.
Form C
Illusion
noun
an instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience.
Final Design
I digitally drew bodies compiled on top of each other on photoshop, then added shadowing to it
making it appear real and 3D.
I wanted to portray illusion through a unusual misinterpretation, making the bodies seem they
are morphed or just compiled.
First experimentation
- In class I played with paper in creating an object, thus I created a 3D overlapping model
- I gained inspiration by the paper creating a 3D object and making the words seem more
significant
Image & Form
Final Design
In combination to the words Noir and Illusion, I have cut out a man and duplicated him
scaled smaller with noir colours and sewed wool through them
and the foam board. This is a 3D piece which also contain a spiral form around the frame
depicting the man being dragged into an illusional world in a cinematic noir tone.
Giving a nostalgic tone to it.
First experimentation
- Exploring and experimenting with paper doing collage etc. I got inspired through an spiral
image and sticking them together creating a 3D piece.
- The shapes being created from different angles have been influenced through my
final design.
Second experimentation
- Cutting and sticking paper parts and forming a paper sculpture have influenced on my final piece.
- This sculpture is made from paper and is sustaining itself from falling down