ANNE-MARIE BSA532 MAGAZINE

Pointed and jagged

Overall Feel of the Project

This project is a conceptual journey from a jagged place of stuctures that are unmovable, to a series of both trees and buildings living together, then to the wild and free growing, flowing trees.

The first images show the jaggedness and re peated patterns of our lives. The concept of rules, regulations and expectations. The middle sec tion shows how both strutures and trees can live communally and then the wilderness of untamed trees.

1. The I chose the Te Rau O Te Huia buildings because I wanted to keep the project practical and uncomplicated so I thought I’d find somewhere close by. Making planning and logistics easy, meeting deadlines without feeling rushed. Plus I love the way the two completely different archi tectural styles have been merged into one, pro ducing a completely new structural identity. Both roof profiles together just add to the straight lines and seemingly unmoving structures.

2. I’m also interested in the emotional contrast be tween a images that have sharp shapes (above) and soft muted images (below). 1.The way we can be when we work too hard and become rugged, sharp and angular. Its hard on the the soul to continu ally be pressured and pumped without a renewing smile, kind word, peaceful sunrise or song. It can make people jagged.

Oreti Beach Image 2

Jagged Church Image 1

3. The jaggedness, sharp lines, re peating pattern and minimal colour of the pacifica pattern is part of the concrete block fence in front of SIT building. These patterns have appeared in my work from time to time. It began after spending time in Lambasa, Fiji and also from a time travelling the Middle East with other New Zealanders, realising and ac knowledging our physical place in the world truly is South Pacific.

4. The survey mark (below) is a re minder of the surveyed expectations put onto our lives like ridged bound ary pegs. It is a graphite rubbing taken from the inner city.

Survey Mark image 4

5. Te Anau motel ( next page) early in the morning. I took the aerial out using PS and cleaned up the roof line. I like how the pointiness is mir rored and balanced.

“As I progressed with this project I realised it was a self portrait from some challenging times, these im ages depict some of that journey”.

Pacifica Pattern Image 3

Pattern series image

Concrtete pavement image

6. This series of images are put together to bring some harmony and a sense of unity. They are from left to right, the new Invercargill City centre mall before it was extended, embossed pattern of St Johns church ceiling, softened ceiling detail and the church front doors. They are turned to the side to get the strong bold horozontal and vertical lines. The colours and textures compliment each other. The strong straight lines provide a sense of rules.

7. ICM (in camera movement) gives this image of the concrete pav ing at Feldwick Gates, a moving feel and the perspective lines gives it depth. Looks to me like a Mother Ship (spaceship) and is taken on one of the early morning excurtions to Queens Park.

8. The repeated pattern of the fore mentioned church ceiling detail becomes interesting when bubble wrapped. This has been converted into a smart object and then put into the ...gallery in Photoshop for further exploration.

Line, texture, repeated pattern, colour, unity and harmony.

Repeated ceiling image 8

9. Pattern is all around us and our eyes search for repetative shapes that we can make sence of. The above image of the reinforcing pillars within the church building are like a big black marker pen, held in a fist, making huge cross marks in an emo tional way. They are just thrown onto the canva and thats where they lay.

10. Structural series of building materials. I like the way the colours and textures work so well togeth er. Each image has some shadowy darkness that reminds me of human frailty.

Pattern, shape, texture and lighting.

Crosses image 9

This has been taken on my phone, Android Galaxy S21 5G. It has a great camera and I take loads of photos on it. It was early one spring morning and I was taken by the symmetry of the building, leading lines of the driveway and the lighting. When I looked at the image later I was pleased with the colours but did enhance yellow, red and green a little. Our colourful treasure.

Treasured posession ... add the meaning of the name

Te Rau O Te Huia image 11

12. Image of church and trees (left) taken early in the morning catching the morning sun on the tips of the trees. It has an even composition with the trees being slightly more prominent size but the buildings bulk taking up a space that makes the composition balanced.

The reflections in the stained-glass window be hind the bars and encased in the boundaries of the window show a certain prison like concept that reminds me of how the church has a variety of rules that keep people within boundaries.

I like that the trees living beside the church grow without those boundaries and flourish within the surveyed boundaries anyway. Up to nature there will be continual growth but up to humans there will be continual constraints. The eye runs into the image via the bottom of the window and flows into the trees and back to the window again.

The dark bulk of the building provides a shape, and the trees provide the detail. The palette is simple, the details and colour of the bricks not too intrusive.

13. The balance in these images (above) and the detail of the trees of the polarised reflection in the window is interesting. With strong separation of buildings and trees not touching one another but those reflections in the window amusingly break those rules.

Congratulations to the designers of the building and decisions to conserve the huge trees. Juxta position of straight confined lines and wild unruly tree branches that move in the wind , buildings reinforced, ridged against earths strength, or so we hope.

Looking up, reaching up, reflection.

Reaching Up image 13

14. Parking Forth Street in the early morning get ting these images (opposite page) later in the day when returning from class. I like the movement as it softens the feeling and then becomes a differ ent image all together.

Muted colours and simple shapes. The ICM always a downward shift to have them similar and then a sereies that can be put together.

The middle image is actually the Feldwick gates, that become the statement of keeping people in, or out. Trees never seem to do that.

Introduction of the spiral twigs image (left) be gin to show a softer intertwined, flowing into the magazinge where ancient spirals and circles become important.

That delightful in camera movement, that moves me to smile, imagine and feel these images.

15. The limbs seem to hug the small clearing like gen tle arms around a child. They are the leading lines that draw you to the light beyond the clearing. It extends an invitation to the eyes, with it a calm sense of wanting to accept.

It’s the spiral details of the branches that are important in the image. It is the suggestion of wild untamed spiri tual meeting places. Unseen ethereal beings inhabiting the space, just waiting for you to acknowledge and inter act on wispy levels of knowingness.

I like to add the text so that it is not too much in your face. It’s not about the text but it adds to the image and draws attention to the story behind the image.

Ailm celtic symbol (seen in top left image) is said to represent inner strength. It is also the letter A in the celtic Ogham alphabet. Ogham is a group of trees said to bestow knowledge and wisdom. The cross part of the image represents a pine tree – longevity, strength, en durance. The circle around the edge equals balance and a complete soul. These images together, looking up to the light, with foresight and planning.

Looking towards the Light, being drawn to wild shapes.

Wild Spirals image 15

Vertical ICM, the flowing colour of early morning sky light.

The circular movement in with the trees gives a sense of depth. A vanishing point, perhaps an ending.

Spiral image 17