New Brief '7x7"

I am working with Jane and we have been team up by a creative writer from MMU Crew for the Manchester Literature festival at the Corner house in October. Our story is about and called 'A Conversation With Quetzalcoatl (The god Quetzalcoatl, is the Feathered Serpent or Precious Twin). We are going to research and go deeper into looking at Mexican Culture and Aztec Gods. Quetzalcoatl is the god intelligence and self-reflection, a patron of priests. Quetzalcoatl is a primordial god of creation- He is a good God and and he created the current world and the fifth sun, by using his own blood to give new life to bones. He is the giver of breath and the god of winds.

Quetzalcoatl symbols - Quetzal feathers and light shines off him. A Quetzal is a fruit eating bird, sacred bird of the ancient Mayas and Aztecs . Today the bird is found in part of the cloud forest from southern Mexico.

Aztec tombs

Aztec Totem.

This is an idea for one of the finished images. It's all been hand made and photographed. Me and Jane are happy with the outcome. All our props have been photographed and now we are playing around with the images.

We're interested at Pierre et Gilles Using photographs and adding other elements onto the image.

We are happy with the end result, we are gointo to refine the two images more over the summer. Changing the background- maybe paint it or make the background 3D to make the image join together and photograph it again, I had so much fun working with Jane and would like to work with Jane in 3rd year on a project or something.

We're not finished yet, end result will be in September with an animation too

Introducing

Saw this band on Saturday- pretty pretty good.
Check them out here

Hannah Havana

First of all, what a great name. Look at this work, which is full of wit, humour and play on words. It us interesting to see what applications it is used for. You can see from her portfolio that she has worked in contexts as varied as fashion, art installations, window displays, props and dance performance. She also works in a collective.

Foto-Grafik Project

The brief is to be inspiration from the many and varied examples.
First week we have to use an existing photograph, found photographs and change them. With this image- I cut into it and layered and the lines are from sewing into paper, used the photocopy and blew the the sew up.

For the second part of the brief, we have to produce two images and have a theme or subject matter image is totally open. With this image I have blown up bubbles and scan them into Photoshop using my own photograph. My next step is to screenprint onto photo's that I have used with a throw away camera.

This is what I am heading for, image below. The theme is '4 Precious Pictures.' The same method from above but made into a family album.

The method I used above: I screen printed the bubbles and shapes and scanned them into Photoshop.


Used the same method, This theme is called 'bubbles marks' With these pictures I am going make a photo album to make them look old and special.

This is my finished image above the theme is '4 Precious Things'

This theme is this image is called 'Wonder' I screen printed on top 4 pictures.

This image Theme is called 'The Follower'

Editorial two: 'What it Feels Like' o

I paper mashic the monkey head and took a photo, then Photoshop a man suit to the Monkey. Are breif was to make three Illustration , taking from little stories of panic and what it would feel like.

Swear words and replaced them with swords flying out.

I got two blocks of wood shaped into an elephant and a monster, then got them vacuum shaped into plastic and pop them into the freezer. I took a photo- very quickly of with the ice blocks on a light box.

Editorial

Front cover, an editorial pages about internet networking and connections. For research i have been looking at Geoffrey Cottenceau.

A spot illustration for an editorial pages about internet networking. On this page, about "tweeter" and the sentance said 'how birds will be being flying out your tea pot, tweeting about what you had for your breakfast'

Metaphor's

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance-

• "A mighty fortress is our God."

• "Your in the dog house."

• "Mothers meeting."

• "My memory of the event is foggy."

• "The homework was a breeze."

• "Mary stole the spotlight with her performance."

• "The teacher got to the bottom of the problem."

• "Walking on egg shells."

Why Use a Metaphor?

• Metaphors can help readers or listeners to better understand something about the object or idea to which the metaphor is being applied.

• Metaphors can make speaking and writing more lively and interesting.
  

• Metaphors can communicate a great deal of meaning with just a word or a phrase.