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My Blog for Year One, Term Two is available at www.mollybaldry2.blogspot.com

Volume Revisited

Below is my favourite sculpture piece after returning to the volume rotation, This piece further links to the theme of volume as I built up the volume using lots of layers of plastic by melting them together. This created a flower like shape, which shows the connection between the man made world represented by the plastic and the natural world represented by the flower imagery. 

Photography Revisited

To expand on the photography side of the theme duration, I chose some of the best stills from the time-lapse video. These photographs capture the idea of duration in one image, with the movement of the hand and the face. 

I find these photographs a huge improvement on the ones I created at the beginning of the project, the compositions are much more interesting and the movement captured is much more free and fluid. To further enhance the images I adjusted the lighting and saturation to give an eerie almost ghost-like appearance to the subject. 

 

Video Revisited

Following the one-to-one tutorial it was clear that the weakest part of the project was the duration rotation, where I had not yet had chance to create a video. Thus, I decided to start revisiting this project by creating a video that linked to the ideas I had previously explored of capturing duration in a single image. Therefore, I created a time-lapse video which consisted of nearly 200 photographs shown over a 7 second duration. I am really pleased with this video, which can be seen more clearly in the Vimeo link below, as the flashing of images has quite a hypnotic appearance. To emphasize this I adjusted the colour settings, as well as adding music, using skills I had gained from the video workshop.

Link to video- https://vimeo.com/115981764

Painting Revisited

One-to-One Tutorial

During this one-to-one session I got feedback to help improve the work as part of the sculpture rotation. The main point of improvement was to produce more pieces, so that I had a series of sculptures. For this, I returned to the plaster workshop and collected some more plastic to use for my pieces combining melted plastic and plaster.

Diagram Revisited

After feedback from the one-to-one tutorial I went on to finalise the work from the Diagram rotation. I needed to explore larger scales and more materials. The piece on the left is larger scale and also incorporates my ongoing theme in this series of layering images and capturing multiple viewpoints in one piece, I also worked with wax crayons in this piece as they allowed for larger more fluid movements across the page. Though I am pleased that I explored a larger scale I feel like this piece  

could be further improved by building up more layers of colour to add more depth and fluidity.

I feel this is captured more successfully in the smaller scale piece on the right that is also wax crayon but this time on an off-cut of wood board. The texture of the board created a nice base for the wax to be worked into and also made the colours more vibrant.