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.