Projecting acetate photographs!!!!

22/10 Tuesday

I have hired an OHP to project some photographs that I took - I have also been working on projecting words (pieces of my written art).
I want to project pieces onto walls/ceiling to explore the idea of how I can create an installation space - draw the audience in, "trap" them within my work.
I am also looking at projecting onto my canvas paintings - basically working with loads of different mediums to create fragmented works, to explore how I can further push my artwork to communicate and stimulate the audience and for my own benefit - to play around with art.

I looked at this artist in my level 5 project - I am interested in her use of projection of images.
Artist: Mary Temple

Mirrors

Exploring using mirrors - looking at fragments, considering using reflection within an installation.

Red plastic sheet over mirror piece - reminds me of Catherine Yass's work.

Layering acetate (more)

Work in the studio

Working with acetate

Layering images printed on acetate and also glass paint painted over the top of the image.

Projecting over paintings

Working on projection

Exploring different mediums - creating a collective

At this stage in my practice I feel it is crucial for me to create a collective where I document/experiment and play with different artforms and hoard the results to create my fragmented ideas from. So far the extent has been looking at elements of photography, written word, painting and some glass paint/acetate experimentation.

As I am not entirely sure what exact premise or form my photography pieces will take - in the form of projection and display - I will take a lot of different photographs (looking at fragments and distorted angles) - then decide which pieces are relevant and create the best effects.

Alternately, I could explore a particular area I want to focus on, e.g. intensity of emotion - find ways to express these through photography - yet this seems too contrived so I may just explore meanings and themes to get a better view of what I want to portray rather than be too directional with my concepts. Let them happen naturally. 

16/10

I will be working on projection and experimenting with colour and image in my studio space.
I have hired an OHP and plan to project particular images (just my basic photography selection at the moment) at the walls, ceiling and across some of my "practice" paintings to document the effects and have a play with my other mediums and materials.

As I am exploring how to create an installation that the audience can interact with - be drawn into.
First things that come to mind are the use of projection - in particular the fragmentation of images/words/colours that come together to form a "whole" scene/atmosphere. A shattered scene. But made from damaged "items" not a whole thing that is breaking/broken. Constructed. Formed. Fragmented. Connected.

I am also looking at the use of glass and how this can come into play when projecting. I will only discover once I have played around with the art itself. Also looking at smashing items e.g. glass itself, mirrors, damaging photographic films etc.

One particular element of my practice that I have been recently looking at is the combination of acetate and glass paint - creating forms/patterns that can be projected (previously documented results). This will be further explored as I use my OHP tomorrow. I will use one of my pieces I previously made as well as creating a new piece that I shall experiment with projecting.

Looking at different installation art

Alchemical phenomena

Ela Boyd // Artist Statement
How can instances of spatial multiplicity and temporal simultaneity presented in media offer an experience of the Real more than our empirical experience of being? In mediating the interplay of intangible and physical forms, I compose installations that function as perceptual interfaces. These works employ methods of spatializing the image and simultaneously collapsing and expanding space. The perceptual interface uses a synthesis of presences and appearances to instantiate forms mediated through both media and consciousness. By generating awareness of the self becoming a de-centralized presence within space, the immersive installation works present an ontology of distributed presences that enact multiple modalities of being simultaneously. Hence producing a paradigm that reveals the way in which intentionality simulates continuity from a singularity of simultaneous instances of multiplicity.

Looking at different forms of installation art - seeing how I can create something the audience can interact with and can be drawn in by.
Also the link can be viewed as an example of website presentation - it includes all the information needed for my website that I will be shortly developing.

Exploring moreeee

I am looking at exploring projection more - looking at how I can create the most interesting projection pieces by looking at abstraction, distortion and fragmentation.

This is my glass/frame oil paint pallet - I am interested in the patterns and marking it made. This interests me because of the idea that I can project an image onto it and only certain elements of it will be seen because of the bits of paint. 

I am going to work on more painting to gain more ideas for projection and also looking at the colours and lines for my installation development. I have been working on creating layered oil paintings that I can work into with texture and project images/patterns onto it.

Studio space

Photograph of my studio space - so far! Fragments of my practice; oil painting, pastels, photography. 

Exploration through mediums. I explored fragments through photographic images which I edited and used for experimentation - to look at how I can layer acetate.

I have been doing experimentation with painting - creating abstract expressionist style paintings that I like to create to work on expressing an inner world, to explore how I can use colour and pattern and create a "theatrical" atmospheric scene etc.

Patterns, marks, lines that represent refracted lights, movement through a space.

More documentation

Using a lamp to help project my form/pattern on acetate.

Result: 

Although this is poor quality the idea is there to create something bigger and better. I am intrigued by how the direction/powerfulness of light can project the forms I painted. I can explore how I can create a realm in a space to hold the audience - to help them connect and experience my work.

Mat Collishaw

Completely love this artist's work. His pieces work on some many different levels to portray particular themes and also to connect with and draw the audience in.

Collishaw Artwork

Artwork that I am particularly interested in when looking at his work are ones that use projection, lighting, silhouettes and fragments of imagery.
I also find that with Collishaw's work sometimes the theme has to be figured out and really considered for his "purposeful" concept to come through. But at the same time it does filter through your mind, it goes in but interpreted in your own way. His work fascinates and captures the attention of the audience with the unusual visuals and dimensions of his work.

The works below are the ones that most inspired me - mainly because of the fragmentation of imagery and the dimensions/set-up of the pieces that create a world of their own.

'Retrospective'

This was partly inspired by my experience of the twin towers falling on September the 11th. I watched events unfold in an electrical shop, witnessing the collapse on around 60 different screens simultaneously. The illusion of slow motion as the buildings fell, coupled with seeing it multiplied over so many screens, gave it an overwhelming, almost devotional power.

* The audio is intrinsic to the work.

 

'Magic Lantern'

'Butterfly Cabinet'

I am interested in the use of different surfaces that images/videos can be projected onto. Creating a lightbox? Like I did in level 5 might be interesting to do or a projection screen...depending on the size of the projection I want to create.

Forms and projection (documentation)

I have been exploring and working with the idea of using "forms" to project around a space. Possibly working with projecting these creations onto photography, panels or even over painted surfaces.
The forms I create almost absent-mindedly - but they have human-like properties and I create them to reflect particular emotions/positions and give off certain impressions.

I want to explore using glass paint and working onto acetate. I did some basic sketches:

I used orange glass paint to go over the sketch - I want to look at vibrancy of colour and what colours mean to myself as well as how the audience can relate to them.

Painting glass paint onto acetate:

I wanted to work on creating a fragmented image that kind of represented the dimensions of a form - having pattern-like qualities that can be used to create interesting projections around a space and create a sense of "atmosphere" and a realm that the audience can experience.

Exploring using mediums and projection

I have been looking at different ways I can form projections - how I can use other mediums and not just photography images - I shall be experimenting with this idea on acetate also with an overhead projector. 

But I also want to look at forming an atmosphere using projection - possibly something more vague and distorted than just imagery. I explored briefly the use of additional materials on acetate in level 5 but never really pursued it further. I want to explore how transparent mediums can be used to create patterns, shapes, forms and fragments of colour around a space using projection. 

Glass paint was the first thing I decided to experiment with. I have used it before and I like how it can be manipulated to create patterns and forms and trace around a surface. The idea was to use the glass paint on a see-through surface and then shine light behind to see if the colour of the glass paint could would be projected onto the ceiling. A similar effect can probably be created using coloured acetate but I am interested in creating lines and patterns/forms with the glass paint. 

I first decided to use a simple piece of plastic wrapping - any old rubbish would do for my beginning experimentation. I wanted to see if it would work before painting patterns onto my acetate sheets. 

The result of shining light through it: 

Although the light that I used isn't particularly directional - I am intrigued by the result. The lines made by the glass paint are showing up on the ceiling and creating almost an "atmosphere" and this was using shitty plastic and a lamp!!!

I want to work on creating some pattern/forms using the glass paint, painting this onto acetate sheets and seeing the results. I wonder if using an overhead projector would work...I would need to experiment with this at uni and book one out by talking to Anne. 

Forms

I am interested in the portrayal of forms - how fragmented images can be combined to make-up a space. Above are some simple sketchy-paintings I did without really thinking. I like creating forms and figures that represent particular emotional states or create a sense of narrative. The colour is always interesting in portraying particular things - both to me on a personal level and also translated to the audience (individual identification). 

As I am interested in using forms in my work - combining and creating fragments to build together to make up my installation. 

Working on practice

I have many ideas but I am honing in one particular things I want to portray - creating an installation and working with projection at the moment is a focus.
I want to portray colour, images and words.
After exploring different installation pieces, I have decided that working with photography and fragmented imagery would be the most interesting.
The different effects that can be created using the photography is really interesting, I practised with my basic photography images - I even decided to film the changes I could create. It was a poor quality film but I want to look at how I could change the colour and state of the image using a film - like a flick-book almost.

I am interested in how colour can change the mood. The atmosphere can be altered by the effects I can create with my images. I am interested in creating a sense of another world, how fragmented things can be combined to make something - create a realm/space/mind. 

Researchinggg

More installation art

Cybele Lyle, Untitled (Shifting Space) (2011), Video and digital slide projection, projectors, wood, Tyvek, the room itself, dimensions variable

I found this artist's work - I am very intigued by the use of projection. The imagery projected around the room creates almost a whole new sense of space - creating new dimensions and ways in which to move around the area itself. It makes the place almost seem like another world - another realm.
I want to capture some elements of this in my practice - exploring how I can trap the audience in my installation using dimensions of imagery and lighting. The lighting/colour is important in the above piece as the change of tone makes the piece all the more interesting as it alters the mood and context of each side of the room. Also the way the imagery rolls off the wall (distorts) and is projected partially onto the pillars makes the space sketch and seem even more like another world of it's own. Like being inside the dellusions of the artist's mind.

Researching and exploring

Installation Art

I have been looking at different types of installation art to get a feel for what sort of things I could create or do similar things with my own installation pieces.
I want to use lighting and image projecting in my work - basically a mixed media installation - and I want to gain indeas I can use to help me form and design my work.

Judy Pfaff

".....all of the above," 2007
Grapes vines, Styrofoam, plaster, plywood; plastics: Polycarbonate and acrylic; steel: rod, wire and cable; lights: fluorescent light, black light, and EL light; dyes and pigment, 15 1/2 x 40 x 44 feet. Installation view: Rice University Art Gallery, Houston.
Photo by Nash Baker, © Judy Pfaff.
"I probably have a problem with ideas. Most of the art world is idea-based: this means this; this means that. But I’m really trying to get to something very emotional and murky- more sensation and emotion than idea. Black-and-white is not an idea, but it’s based on something . . . It’s life-based- what you gather and try to document. You keep in touch with who you are."
- Judy Pfaff

This artist wants to create a emotional sense with her work as I do with mine - I want the audience to response and be stimulated. The use of lighting creates an atmosphere within an installation - considerations for intensity and type/colour. I want streams of light to almost section off certain areas - going along with my theme of fragementation.

 

 

Kara Walker

"Darkytown Rebellion," 2001
Installation view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Projection, cut paper and adhesive on wall, 14 x 37 1/2 feet
Collection of Foundation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

I am interested in fragements of imagery - even relating to a sense of narrative, one the audience can identify with themselves, figure out in their own way as they are drawn in. The use of figures in the above piece immediately creates a sense of narrative - I am interesting in possibly projecting imagery of my own (fragemented sketches/paintings) that depict certain things to myself but also work as a universal image or an expression of something emotional.
The use of coloured light/projections is important in this piece - lots of different colours/shapes/distortions makes the piece seem playful and wonderous. I want my piece to depict theme of being fragmented but including elements of different things - refracted light? Splintered light beams?