Semester 1
Block 1
My Workbook
Paintings
Reasoning in Workbook
2nd image is ‘warm up painting’ with restriction of no brushes (make 100 marks)
The Plan
Spraypaint ‘test’
experiment with colour, stencil, and treating spray like a more traditional paint – try and create marbling etc.
Video of Place
Boomerang Walk
repetitive movement
By videoing and repeating this movement I am placing importance on the mundane action that is made everyday without much thought.
In Studio Video
Player may be broken – link provided
This video played with the idea of montage, creating a feeling from placing certain images next to each other.
Final Project Progression
15/3/21 – 1/4/21
Tēnā koutou katoa
Ko Ruapheu te Māunga
Ko Whanganui-a-tāra te awa
Ko ngati Pakeha toku iwi
Nō Poneke ahau
Ko Sasha tōku ingoa
Nō reira, tēnā koutou katoa
With my pepeha I introduce myself, and the concept of mihimihi. The places to where we belong, and where our affiliation lies.
My chosen place is one that holds special value to me, as a resident of the area, I traverse and experience the place every day – to and from.
The last set of steps of Abel Smith Street’s northern pedestrian access are a hidden gem privy to only those that live there. No other reason would lead you up there, so while public, leads a very private existence.
When I am in the space, I feel a sense of enclosure, shelter, that is comforting – knowledge that I am home. This is mostly experienced through the way the natural landscape and trees seem to tunnel around you as you climb the steps. The dense treescape also serves the purpose of distancing one from the city they have just come from, truly feeling like you are in a natural landscape and not a constructed one.
While this is far from the truth, as obvious by the amount of grey concrete protruding and tearing its way through the hill. This visual dissonance is one that I wished to explore – and if by chance help dissipate.
Of its place, in its place.
This is the motto of my project. I wanted to create work that would sit in the environment it was born from, and in time become part of that environment. So, I selected a concrete retaining wall at the top of the steps that contrasts heavily with the green that surrounds it. I wanted to transform the wall into another piece of the natural background and bring that feeling of calm and beauty back to the space. A landscape mural that reflects the area.
The pictorial idea that makes up the mural is the concept of accessways as rivers of people. We flow down from our houses into the roads on into the city. Flow also is the keyword behind the artistic process of creating the work, let the mural reveal itself as I work.
A quiet spring,
For a tributary,
Feeding a river,
Into the Sea
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