Part 1 - Tate Modern to Southwark Cathedral

Today, we walked from the Tate Modern to Southwark Cathedral, collecting things along the way. I decided to collect and record lettering. I collected different types of lettering mainly by using wire, rubbings and taking photos.

Part 2 - Mapping

(Attempting) to map/record the movement of 50 people in one space...

Necklace

Bring in an object. Make a twin of it.

This is what I came up with...

Corsage No. 2

Apologies for the bad quality photos - the corsage looks better in real life fo' sure.

Newspaper Shirt

Having experimented with manipulating clothes in their original form, we then had to take them apart and re-assemble them into something new. I decided to remake my shirt out of newspaper - which made the shirt more fragile and uncomfortable, contrasting to before, when the shirt was old and worn.

To begin, I cut up the old shirt into sections to use as a template for the newspaper.

Here is the initial template for the newspaper shirt. I attached the different parts of the template together using masking tape, leaving the front open. I like the interesting patterns made by the text on the newspaper - mirroring the lines on the original shirt.

Using some of the parts of the original shirt, I made a corsage, to incorporate into the newspaper shirt.

This is the newspaper shirt completed - with the added corsage and belt (made from the original shirt). I wanted to join the newspaper and cotton together in the new shirt as they contrasted well with each other. To keep the corsage and belt attached to the newspaper, I used string.

Manipulating Clothes

This week we have been experimenting with sculpting clothes and manipulating their functions into something new - influenced by the work of Erwin Wurm (see below).

I used an old shirt as my item of clothing - here are some of my ideas...

Working in groups to create sculptures from our
 clothes, then drawing them from observation

Skirt made from two shirts buttoned together

Close up of the buttons

Back of the skirt

Saatchi Gallery Visit - 10/09/10

Matthew Darbyshire - Untitled: Shelf No. 5

I liked this piece of work immediately when I saw it as I was drawn in by the bright colours and cheap look of the items on display. When looking closer at the different shelves, I noticed that there were £1 price tags on the glasses - this seems to suggest that the artist is questioning an image of value - the items on the shelves aren't valuable, but are desirable in our society (e.g. Items from Ikea, Coca Cola glasses free from Mcdonalds).