Pop up project notes
We
have been asked for the Pop up project to make a selection of objects.
For
my Pop-up project I have chosen objects related to my memory, my culture, found
objects and my love of natural colours.
Inspiration
came from the rough guide project, picking things laying on the street that
people had stepped on or thrown away, and the marks people left on these
objects. Things fall on the ground, paper falls and people step on it, conkers
fall hard and sharp. The conkers leave a mark as they fall, the paper is marked
by peoples steps .They are full of memories, like a finger-print on a passport.
I imagine all the people who have passed by, stepped on these objects, people
from all over the world. People leaving
coins from many countries, dropped by bank machines, in front of cafes, on
street corners.
Stage 1
We
have been asked to draw the objects in different ways- line drawings, drawings
against a dark background, assemblies of objects
Stage 2
Drawing
objects and describing them. Texture.
I
used the skin of a conker, and the skin of a cassava (the food I was brought up
on) to make my marks. I chose a conker as one of my objects because of the
sharp, spiky skin and used the texture of the conker with acrylic paint to
capture the sharpness, roughness and hardness of the conker. I found conkers on
the street under the trees where they fell and hit the ground. I used fallen
tree bark- this relates to the memory of the mask- made of wood.
I
want my objects to have a connection with each other, with the pavement, with
the vegetable coloured soap, with the ground around the tree. The Cassava is a
root vegetable. It has hard lines like little routes, like a map and earthy
looking skin. I ate Cassava at home every day.
I
also used a needle to dip in ink to make fine lines for some of my patterns to
express the texture of my object into my pattern drawing. Using the natural
colours from my object collection, the covers of my soap packets to make the
drawings.
Stage 3
Using your object
-Swatch book
Today we are
supposed to only use black acrylic paint or ink to make patterns.
Description of my objects
As
I am using natural and cultural objects. I have a combination of African
vegetables-cassava, pineapple, macabo;
the colourful packets of bars of soap peach and melon, grapes, carrots;
a wooden African mask; tree bark,
conkers fallen onto the ground
I
used the objects texture to (inform) my choices. I used the texture of those
objects for my swatch book drawings.
Conkers
sharp, rough as the pavement. Roughness, ground, pavement, scratchy and hitting
the ground
Cassava-brown,
hard, a root vegetable, earthy, rough skin
Pineapple-
rough, spiky, yellow, green, scratchy
Natural
soaps, fruits and vegetables, rich natural colours, organic
I
wanted to use the brightness of the vegetable images on the soap packages
BaLuba Mask from
the Congo- memory, African tradition and culture, wood, carving, art.
The mask has
lines like the cassava.
Receipts
and money found on the street
Multi-culture-
people coming from different parts of the world. The different texts and
textures.
