Charlie Le Mindu

A couple of the photos I took of Nadia

Travelling Circus ---> freaks

Migrate

Fashion & Textile Rotation

Area choice

After the 8 weeks of the subject areas, I'm still unsure as to what to choose from out of Visual Communications and Fashion & Textiles. I wouldn’t want to take 3D Spatial any further, even though it was actually better than I expected it to be. I enjoyed making the sculptures and 3D things but I didn’t find it as stimulating as the other areas and it’s not a pathway I want to go down.

Before this Foundation course, Fine Art was the area I thought I would definitely want to go into – it was also the area I found most challenging. I think this is mainly due to it being the very first rotation and for about the first week and a half, I found it difficult to break out of the A-level way of thinking and free up. The independence we were given and the vague brief was good and I liked the freedom but it was just hard for me to adapt to at first, coming straight out of A-level. It was also very intimidating seeing everybody else’s amazing artwork. I think if we had Fine Art second, third or fourth I would have found it less confusing and enjoyed it more. Saying that, towards the end I started to loosen up and understand the project better. My final pieces were completely different to what I would normally do and if we had more time I would have liked to have done more painting, but I don’t think I’ll carry on with Fine Art.

I didn’t think I would have ever thought about regarding Visual Communications as a path to go into but I really enjoyed the area. In my opinion the ‘Go Slowly’ piece I did felt like my most successful project out of the four areas. I really liked rummaging through loads of images and cutting them up, photocopying and tracing them, drawing over them and creating them into something new. Although, I found the last stage of Visual Communications quite difficult, where we had to think about the audience and having to create our pieces/images always bearing in mind how the audience views it and whether they will understand it. That is one of the main things that made it difficult for me to choose between a Fine Art route and a designer route. I like the freedom of being able to create things without having to think about whether the audience will understand it but then again it could be interesting always having a certain brief to work to and interpreting it in your own way. In Fashion and Textiles I was told that I am more designer-related which cleared things up a bit better for me and if I do go down the designer route, I can always paint and do more 'fine art' stuff in my own time.

Fashion and Textiles is another area I wasn’t planning to go into but I enjoyed the area a lot. I like working with different textures and especially enjoyed the project where we had to cut into and deface the photographs we took, I also find fashion and fashion photography in general very inspiring. I’m just not sure whether I am suited for that area and I like doing a range of things such as photography, painting and mixed media as well as textile work so I don't know whether I'll be restricted in textiles. I'll be happy to go into either Fashion & Textiles or Visual Communication; it's just difficult deciding on which one I'll enjoy continuing, develop my current skills in and be successful in. Hopefully at assessment I'll be pointed in the right direction.

Rachel Whiteread Exhibition

I found this exhibition really uninspiring. There were a couple of interesting things like the photographs with houses tippexed out, but I found her other drawings just really bland.

to hold small objects

to rest your head on after too much work

and to walk through.

i'll upload the scale photos soon!

we also had to take photos of our objects in 'situations',

with a little help from Kayo and Saskia!

3D Spatial

On the first day of 3D spatial we had to get into groups (a mixture of international and home students) and create a 3D map. So, after gathering everybody's materials we got to work and created this beauty:

The chairs represented each member of the group and how we're all here together at Chelsea.

This was fun and it was interesting to see how each group interpreted it differently, although the room was a bit of a death-trap at the end of the day. We then did a range of drawings, some 1 minute, 2 minutes, blind, memory etc.

On our Independent Study Day we had to go out and draw things in relation to the words we were given, and then had to make three models inspired by them.

Paul Phung

For VisCom week 2, we had think about a sender, a receiver and a message between them.

I came up with a few ideas but the one I eventually picked was Make-up saying to a girl "I won't make you any prettier."

Then the difficult bit came - trying to visually communicate the message so the receiver would eventually get it but now to make it too obvious either.

Anyway this was my final:

and flipped over:

I figured I'll dedicate this to the 99p shop as this was where i got all the mirrors from, which resulted in me getting weird looks from the 99p shop staff. They must've thought I was either very vain or very paranoid, either way, each mirror came with 5 make-up brushes so I'm set for life.

Here are the first photos in more detail, I think you can probably see the second set pretty well, plus the final one will be quite scary any bigger and we've still got a couple of weeks til Halloween.

Muybridge

You probably all know who this dude is, Eadweard Muybridge. As well as having the most complicated way of spelling the most simplest of names, he also took really cool photographs.

I visited his exhibition at the Tate Britain (I'll upload my sketches later). I liked a lot of his photographs, especially the panoramic ones of San Francisco. The thing I found most intriguing about them was the fact the buildings looked like they could belong in a modern landscape but when you looked closer you could see the occasional horse and cart in the road and it hits you as to how long ago these photos were actually taken.

I liked how eerie a lot of his photos were, and I found a lot of the landscape ones seemed unreal, more like paintings rather than photographs.

The only thing I found difficult was grasping the concept of how ground-breaking his sequence/motion photographs were, as I'm part of a generation who have grown up with photography, animations and movies all our lives. Maybe it's just me.

Viscom

I thought Visual Communications would be...well, to be honest, I didn't have a clue what it would be like but I didn't think that I would enjoy it as much as i did.

Firstly we got given a word each which we had to use to draw ideas etc, then we got partnered up and had to connect our words together.

My word was cake, my partner's word was bag.

we then explored many ideas including black bin liners and cake + bag = bake

After lots of thinking and drawing and painting, we realised we had about half an hour left, so we ran to the cafeteria, bought some delicious cakes - a muffin and a donut, we then reluctantly cut up the muffin and covered it in paint then ran up to the library and got photocopied the cakes (don't worry, we left them in the plastic bags!).

These were our final pieces, they came out pretty cool I think, even though they're quite simple. One thing i keep learning in Chelsea is to not over think and over complicate things - which i can often do a little too much.

'Go Slowly'

I really liked our 'images' project, mainly because I like looking through old photographs and magazines and tracing images and scanning/changing/destroying them. My piece was about identity. I could explain every part of it, but I won't.

It was great seeing everyone's work though, they were all amazing, you can see some of the other's work on Hana's blog, as well as her own which is awesome!