on the 23rd of February, I and my class room were given an excercise at looking through the Collect exhibityion and it’s total of 36 collections and picking one or more as our favourites.
Collect is a collection of thirty two sculptural pieces and sets created by various artist, my favourite one in particular was the “House on Mars” Gallery, created by:
Attua Aparicio (ceramic)
Ela Bauer (plastic)
Ana Margarida Carvalho (metal)
Juliano Cordano (wood)
Faye Hall (textile, metal)
Zachary Herrmann (glass)
Karin Herwegh (wood)
Lambert Kamps (multimedia)
Peter Marigold (plastic)
Nicholas Marschner (metal)
Lina Peterson (wood)
Anna Ray (textile)
Zoe Robertson (plastic)
Alicia Rowbotham (textiles)
The collection showcases a set of jewelery and table wear made of wood and ceramic .
I like this collection for its design, colour scheme, shapes and how it reminds me of my collection idea for my final project, about my Da Vinci themed fantasy collection in creating five model of inventions/everyday appliances in the style of Da vinci designs and renaissance aesthetic, these include glasses, a type writer, a microscope and a prosthetic hand, etc.
On the 2nd of february, I tasked in creating a creative C.V, unlike the usual standard format of a C.V, these kinds would creatively and visually display the applicators education, experience, skills, education, contact information etc.
During one of my Tuesday seminar meetings, we were all tasked with partaking in a physical and mental exercise for one week, as a way of finding more creative outputs and see if we develop any new healthy habits, these include a cold shower, daily dancing, daily exercise, reading for an hour, going to bed early etc.
Tuesday 27th October
I started off with five minutes of conscious breathing by slowly breathing in through my nose amnd out my mouth, next I did a little dance excercise and mae sure I was completly highdrayted with water, my last exercises for the day were drawing, reading a book for an hour and taking a picture of me reading the book.
My drawing was of Moon Knight (Marvel Superhero)
The book I read was Stepthen King’s The Shinning (1977).
Wednesday 28th October
I started off today by doing five minutes of conscious breathing, then I did 15 minutes of stretching, including streching my arms and legs, doing sit ups, squats etc. Later in the afternoon I did a drawing of Michael Myers from Halloween.
Thursday 29th October
At 9 AM, I started off the day by walking into university campus, it took me 43 minutes, during the early afternoon I did a small drawing of an hour glass in my notebook.
Friday 30th October
The first thing I did was do 15 minutes of morning stretches followed by five minutes of conscious breathing, in the late afternoon, I went for a quick 20 minute walk both there and back, during the late evening I sat down drew a small drawing of me as a Kestral in my notebook.
Saturday, 31st October
I started off my morning as usual doing 15 minutes of stretching and five minutes of conscious breathing, by the late afternoon I sat down and did a drawing of Blade from Marvel Comics.
Sunday 1st November
In the morning I started off my 15 minutes of stretching and five minutes of conscious breathing , during the early afternoon, I sat down and drew a picture of Stan Smith from American Dad and finally from the late afternoon to the evening I went on a long walk for 42 minutes.
Monday 2nd November
I started off by having a 40 minute walk both there and back, next I proceeded by doing five minutes of conscious breathing, during the evening I did a drawing of Homelander from ‘The Boys’
Conclusion
Through out this entire week of exercise I did manag to achive most of the daily excercises including the walking, breathing, drawing and occasional stretching, I did miss some of the other ones such as taking a cold shower, limiting my time on social media, cooking a new recipe and going to bed early one night (staying up doing worl, mostly)
However when not doing my work or running errands, this exercise did give me differnet aims on what to do on a daily basis, my top favourites were the walking and the drawing. Even though I was mainly focusing on my main project through out the past week these exercise did give me something to do when I have about an hour or two to myself, in future, if I were to create an exercise routine to suit my own needs,(however I would still do the daily walks and drawings since those are some of my favourite activites) mine would include limiting myself to what I eat, making sure I get a perfect balance of in door uni work and fresh air or set various timers (preferably 1 hour) for whenever I work, read, relax or do chores (even make a game of it, like see how much I can get done in an hour, then try to break that record). These excercises could benifit in healthy thought process and effiency without being too difficult or demanding and would give me the ability to work at a better pace.
On the 26th of November, I had my fifth Session in figurative modeling. This week’s exercises for life drawing and sculpting exercises.
Life Drawing:
Sketching
For life drawing, we did 10 of 10-second sketches, 10 of 20-second sketches, 5 of 1-minute sketches and 2 of 10-minute sketches.
Life Sculpting
for the next part of life drawing we each took a lump of clay and did 2 of () minute sculptures of our model, after that, we did two of () minute life drawings of our models.
Hand Sculpture
For the afternoon session, we sculpted hands, First, we took two lumps of clay and rolled them into bowl shapes, next using a bit slip to glue them together, this formed the base shape of the hand, next we took another lump each and sculpted the wrist.
Next, I rolled up bits of clay and formed the fingers, once all of them were attached, I started shaping the palm, the knuckles, the wrinkles, and the position, For the finishing touches, I covered most of it in white slip for the firing process.
On the 14th of November, I had my second session of Figurative Modelling, for the whole day, I and my class were sculpting heads, first, we started with taking terracotta clay and building a circular wall to act as a base, then I started building up layers of clay, working my way up the head.
Once I built my way up to the chin I took a small piece of clay to act as support once the chin was in place, then I started building more upward to the face, for the nose I tore up small pieces of clay that helped form the shape.
(Note: During the process, we were encouraged not to make the surface of our heads too smooth as it would increase our chances of them collapsing)
While making my way to the top of the head (like what I did with the nose) I took small pieces of clay and started building my way up.
Once I sculpted the eyes, ears, lips and other facial features, I was finished and satisfied
(Note: the reason why I didn’t fill the head all the way to the top was both because there was a risk of it collapsing and also because I liked the way it looked).
On the 11th of October, I had my third session of “A Play on Extraordinary Processes”, after the lecture we were tasked in conducting a practice an oral history interview with our classmates, For each of our interviews we had to ask our classmate what they were going to write about in our essay and so for each of us we had to ask the right kind of questions to our classmates.
Dalia
What do you think you’re going to do for your essay?
Dalia- “I think going to choose the same topic of my subject, synesthesia, its a neurological condition about people who see colors when they hear music, so I actually have discovered that Van Gogh had this condition and also there is an artist called Melisa in the U.S who has the same condition and when I read about the two artists I found out how Van Gogh was treated as someone who has a disease and how Melisa is someone consider very talented with the “disease” so it’s about how people who have this condition over the years like in classrooms, eg when Van Gogh did piano classes, he was kicked out because he used to color in the notes because he would see them in colors, but when Melisa was in college she was considered an artist just for having this condition, so yeah I’m talking about differences of how they felt.
What are you going to include? (e.g Your own views, quotes or your own argument)
“I think I’m going to include my options and also from the documentaries I’ve seen about people talking about themselves and how they experience synesthesia so then I would take their quotes and put them in my essay.
Do you think you know where to find sources?
“I’m still researching this because I’m choosing this topic for my subject so my tutor helps me some books and since I’m choosing this for constellation It would involve me getting resources, for example, I could contact Melisa and ask her questions but obviously, I cant contact Van Gogh and ask him how it felt.”
Do you think you’ll able to cover all three categories for your essay?
“I’m still researching this, so my tutor helps me get some books and since I’m choosing this for my constellation and it would involve me getting resources, for example, I could contact Mellisa and ask her if I could ask her some questions, but obviously I cant contact Van Gogh and ask him what it was like.”
Do you think you’ll be able to cover all three categories for your essay?
“Actually I don’t understand each category, so I don’t really understand them well.”
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