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I started experimenting the material with the idea of layering. The mind map helped me clear my ideas. In the end I decide to work on the more abstract method of layering colours. I started playing with the material by painting it and layering it in different ways. Inspired by Rothko's Untitled. I started the …
Deciding to use layering of colour to interpreting my works for manifesto, I started to research into Rothko's practice. Being a huge fan of abstract expressionist, Rothko is one of my favourite due to the spirituality and mysterious quality of his works. As Rothko deliberately refused to disclose his intention and meaning behind his paintings, …
On Monday we had our first group tutorial, and we each shared our thoughts on our manifesto and the works we want to create for the project. I want to use this post as my documentation of my ongoing ideas and help me to clear my thoughts and find the angles I want to research …
"The single story creates stereotype and the problem with stereotype is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete, they make one story become the only story."Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story "Information" is the aspect I researched on for our group manifesto. There are so much different contents around this subject; the importance of exposing to information, the subtle boundary between transparency …
It's been two weeks since the project launch, and we have finally made some progress so far and finally decide our topic as "EXPOSURE." With such a abstract and broad issue, we faced quite some challenges in the beginning, as everyone could have a different interpretation on this subject. Struggling with our topic in the …
We got a lovely induction on photoshop with Anna last Thursday, I was very impressed on how much skills and knowledge can be taught in such a short period of time. Even I am quite familiar with Photoshop, I always found it interesting how everyone has a different way of doing things and how some …
Tate modern is like a candy box that you can always find a new surprise in it. Every time you revisit it, it will inspire you in a different way. This time coming here trying to find inspirations for our manifesto project, which we were at the time focus on "exposure." This is quite a …
You don't have to bend the whole world. I think it's better to just enjoy it. Pay your dues, and just enjoy it. If you shoot a arrow and it goes real high, hooray for you.Dorian Corey Before our trip to the Hayward Gallery for the Kiss My Genders exhibition, we received a mail from …
In Fashion & Textiles pathway session, we were playing with the idea of manifesto by creating shapes/silhouettes with words cut out from fabric. By choosing the word "victims", we started with drafting how to position the words. And in the end we choose to loosely fit the characters into the plane and also play with …
I love how we started this project with collages of News headlines. However, I also found it ironic that how News headlines are also sometimes (or very ofter) being politically or strategically manipulated in a way to create buzz or to make the viewers form a perceptions of the articles before they read the contents. …
CHRISTINA TAI 