Looking at the wind blowing the smoke I began to start taking photos of the smoke then I drew and printed arrows showing the directions of the wind blowing the smoke. I particularly like the first one as it is almost smokey itself and I like the last two as you have to look to find the arrows in the print.
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Out of boredom I've been blowing up balloon and letting them go to see how they deflate, none of them ever deflating in the same way. I have recorded them on my phone and drawn a line following the balloon. These are based weather forecast wind graphs.
I've been watching the weather forecast a lot recently and I've been fascinated with the wind forecast, I thought that this would be an interesting thing to try and measure and make illustrations of the measurements. 'Function World' is a comic strip by Grant Snider. I love this comic as it is so similar to my work, he's looking at everyday things in a different way. Which is what I am trying to do in my project, he is a great inspiration.
By accident on one of my first etchings I had not gotten ink into the dips of the etched lines and this created a white line against the grey of the plate that hadn't been cleaned properly. The white lines looked great in contrast to the grey and I wanted to try do the whole plate in this way. After a few trial and errors I finally managed to get it right and printed many of my plates in a 'negative' way. I've been asked to be part of an exhibition that is being organised by John Lynch, it is about the course, involving students from each year and students who have left. I am really excited to be part of this exhibition, I am going to put a future etching into the exhibition. The etching will be about measuring peoples experiences with time and how different they all are, as I would like to use the circle graphs as I think they work really well.
After making many graphs and charts to measure what seemed to be unmeasureable I have written myself a brief of' 'Charting The Unmeasureable'. The brief is what thoughts I have had about my tittle, the next thing that I am measuring is time. Time is thing that is measured everyday but peoples feelings and experiences of time is all very different. I will be making a graph based on the circle graphs and the cloud of confusion graph as I particualry liked certain elements from them both.
I will follow these questions and try to measure things that are deemed un-measurable and immeasurable. For these graphs I have asked people to fill in a little cards plotting their confusion to their to the number of ideas they have had for Unit X. I did this research to see if my graph would be similar to anyone else's and if there would be a correlation between them, the data that I have received was too wide spread to show a correlation between confusion and number of ideas. It was very interesting to see how people wrote their graphs and what they looked like. This etching is based on a graph of personal space and conversation. I particularly like the etching plate of these one. I will definitely carry on with the circle design.
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