RELATE
EXPLORING THE POETIC POTENTIAL OF MATERIALS The following pages contain guides for the project
Read the brief Check the requirements for presentation, be on time Celebrate and apply your knowledge from other courses
RELATE
EXPLORING THE POETIC POTENTIAL OF MATERIALS Intro: In project one you investigated the potential of surface as the visual expression of materiality. To successfully resolve that project you had to discover and engage the properties of the respective material. This project will take you a step further you will apply and build on these by combining two dissimilar materials; one natural, the other processed and engage their properties to reveal and celebrate their qualities. Systematic manipulation and composition ‌‌ material and emotion
Task
Engage the properties of one to express the qualities of the other in the form of an abstract 3D composition. The main objective of the project is to investigate the full vocabulary of materials, moving beyond the pragmatic, engaging their poetic potential and celebrating their qualities.
Discovery and evidence
First Investigate the properties of each material; then… Combine your chosen materials in quick experiments Discover how material qualities are influenced by other materials Do they tell a story, is there more than literal connection, can this ‘poetic potential’ be developed into a composition?
Final Development
Develop one final composition from your initial experiments. Reflect on how your selected materials ‘fit into’ space,
Composition
Think of your composition size in terms of volume; it can be long and thin, tall or narrow, work at the extremes rather than within a cube Remember: Space, rhythm, chaos, hierarchy, layers, depth, texture, tactility, translucency
Express balance
Express skin - control
Photography Three printed photographic quality 200mm x 200mm images: of your composition. Reveal the emotional connections in your composition, reflect on your story. How the properties of one material expresses the qualities of the other. Depth of field and focus – try switching to macro setting and get in close Show us how you see/interpret your composition Use the photo studio on level 2 Use a tripod Help each other Editing and cropping in Photoshop
Photos, composition and editing Take a diverse range of photos, from many different view points to become aware of how your composition can be seen. Does the camera angle/shadow /tone challenge our preconceptions of the physical. Have you altered scale, created vast spaces, generated molecular intensity or, captured a material altercation.
Photos, editing and printing Think crop, zoom in, and generally rove about like an insect trying to find the best three. The photographs are important and should not be overruled by any mount. No foam core. Either trim each photo to size or try large format printing where all photos can be positioned on one sheet.
Presentation
One composition 3 Photographs (each 200mm x 200mm) Photographs celebrate and communicate your story Think about what you will say!
Conclusion
After the presentation - Upload your 3 photos plus images from your workbook/initial investigations to flickr (follow instructions on the brief) Remember you may comment on others work including the labs on flickr Enjoy, share and participate in the presentation Well done and have a great break!! Collect your old cell phones, you may wish to use the ‘motors’ in the next project