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!

Fine Art Final

My final art piece ended up being a trio of paper bags inspired originally from a soggy, dirty, discarded 'Eat' bag I saw on the ground. I liked the fact it still advertised even though it was litter, and it was still telling people what to do/where to go, even though it was litter.

Whilst walking around on Tuesday i noticed how all the adverts and signs for shops are constantly competing to win your attention by being the biggest or brightest or most colourful, and eventually they just all end up looking the same and merging into one. I wanted to show this through my photos which i took unfocused and blurry to represent the way all the adverts and signs end up looking like a merged blur. I covered one of the paper bags with these photos, creasing it up and tearing holes in it to make it look worn and damaged.

Inspired also by a quote from 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk, "The things you own end up owning you." I wanted to show how people, the consumers, base their lives around buying material things and that it's not actually the people choosing and deciding, it's the products luring them in, which led me to stick my photos of people inside the bags. Which may be 'too literal' in showing the products end up owning you, but i don't see why messages through art always have to be so hidden and complicated and metaphorical.

i won't explain any more of the bags because i guess it'll probably take away that essence of the multiple interpretations from different people. So, yeah, there you go. I like them but I would've liked to have done more like maybe paint more or something, not that I had the time.

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At first I didn't quite understand the brief for our Fine Art project and had no clue what I was going to do for our Crit day but after visiting a few galleries and taking some photos for our 'Carnival of the street' project, it became a bit clearer.

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I haven't really had time to blog about the first week of Chelsea until now, so here goes;

It was scary at first, like anything i guess, because it was so different to A-level but I'm really starting to enjoy it now. By the second week i was starting to get out of the A-level type of thinking so I should be there soon.

I've met some really cool people, the fusion of creative minds is pretty awesome.

Anyway, heres a few pictures from the Cheap Date day:

Ran was my 'Cheap Date', we talked about fish & chips and Toy Story 3 and how awesome they both are.

I tried to find a Fish & Chips related £1 present for Ran, so this was as close as I could get to a sailor's hat.

And Ran got me these bangles!

Overall a good day (: