Patrol

Patrol

Simon Cudmore, 2014

Canvas, acrylics

610x910

Dogs of war

Dogs of war

Simon Cudmore, 2014

Graphite pencil, 

A3 paper

Second Project: Passage

Our group consists of Hana, Kate, and myself, And for this project all the groups were given headings which we would then have to go away and create and art piece that would reflect the heading which we had been allocated.

For our groups heading we were given the word "Passage" and our ideas just began pouring in to our minds. Our immediate thoughts were passage= pathway, tunnel, obstacles, and even to a point of travel.

Ideas:

using mirrors

tape on the floor

text messaging each other a code to which we would know were to turn and which leg to move, left or right.

another idea was along line of cardboard boxes, tape them together and allow people to crawl through it.

then using a camera to take photos of were we have been.

We began to approach the idea of the camera and thought that we could record a journey of were we have been and were we where heading.

With this one of us came up with the idea that we could take a photo of one of us in the group walking step by step through the F block studio from behind, from the left side, and from the right side, and then from front on.and then we would hang these photos up on sting or wire from the ceiling shown in photo below, as a cube. So the effect that we wanted was of the person in the photo to be in the exact location to were the photo had been taken from.So that when people looked at it

this next photo shows how it would look as side on or profile form.

But after some time and due to unforeseen circumstances, i.e flu and sickness within the group we had to change the plan to suit our time frame. So we decided to scrap the idea of cubed photos and stick with an A5 sized photo. Instead of having a member of the group in the photos we would just take photos of each step that the photographers eye view would see.

Instead we decided to take a photo of each step the photographer takes from one end of the studio to the other end, And then turn around and come back. then when we put the photos together we hoped to create the effect that when you walk in from the door end the first photo you see is the door behind you, so as to create the feeling that you are looking at were you have just come from, so we have tried to reverse the room using photos.                                                                        

During the stages of matching the correct photo with its opposite partner we discovered that we had 3-4 that hadn't printed, and so we had the idea of hand drawing in the missing images however this was not to be as someone said to us "if a job is worth doing, it's worth doing right" no if's or but's about it! So myself and Kate looked over the instalment again, figured out were the missing images were and re printed.

and on the reverse sides of the above.

We decided to use black and white toned photos to give it more depth and feeling to the journey and plus we want people to experience it in something different than the usual, instead of having the photos in colour it wouldn't have the same effect because this is how we see day to day life....in colour

Project one, occupy or change the space in F block

Project One



Group Members: Sarah, Dando, Ellyn, and Myself.

We came up with a number of ideas straight away from each member.
These ideas were:

1 Hanging shoes from the ceiling at different lengths and then paint the soles of them.

2 To run string from one point of F block and run it along the walls right around until it came back to meet the start point.

3 place buckets of water in the middle of  F block and video how it affects peoples way of passage.

4 Glue a coin to the floor and video people attempting to pick it up.

5 Giant hopscotch.

6 tack large bed sheets over everything in F block.


Meeting One

We decided on idea number 3 as we thought it would possibly have the greater effect on what we were hoping to achieve. The idea came form an actual incident which ac cured in the previous semester, when it rained hard the roof in one of the classes in F block would contently leak to the extent that  we would have to shift the tables and students art work and place one or two buckets in the spot.

So because of the buckets in the middle of the class room it completely changed the environment and the foot traffic of those in the class. We had to take a wide birth around the buckets just to get to the other side of the classroom.

The Buckets therefore changed the whole way that people moved in the class and had to be more aware of were they were placing art work.

On the Wednesday we decided to Video the area of interest which would be our installation point.
this proved interesting to say the least.....
After roughly a four hour period of videoing, we decided to edit down to a three minute time laps to show viewers the difference of foot traffic before the installation was placed down.

On the Thursday we again set up the video camera pointing towards the exact spot we videoed on the Wednesday, however this time we placed a number of buckets in an uncoordinated fashion.
My idea was to just have three buckets for the installation but in a previous meeting which i was unable to attend the girls decided that more buckets would have a greater effect.