Ceramics Studio Rotation 1

My first rotation of the different subjects I selected as my modules at art school was ceramics. To say I wasn't the best at it is a huge understatement. I will never make the cut as a potter of any kind I only succeeded in getting covered in clay and producing some very interesting work, overall I wasn't very successful and won't be majoring in ceramics, my next rotation, photography, should be much better.

Ceramics Powerpoint PDF

Workbook Worksheet Week 4 PDF

Slideshare.net

Slideshare is on online website where you can upload private or public slide shows for others to view. The link below I found inspiring to flick through, it reminds me no matter where we come from or who we are, we all have the right to enjoy life and the beauty of the world and the presence the people in it. We lose sight of this as we learn more about the truth of the world and the people in it, but the innocence of these children reminds me that a world where we aren't judging so quickly is a place of hope, peace, enjoyment and wonderment at the beauty each day holds.

This is one of my favourites, Colors of the World, Children

Speaking of the world, there is this awesome site that is really quite fascinating, Worldometers, its all these statistics about the world and you can watch them change as the worlds population constantly evolves and changes. Check it out Here

Maori Culture

Maori Culture

This video relates to my first assignment for Art History and Theory which was on Mark Adams, a photographer who focuses on Maori and Pakeha influence on the land telling past history of the land choosing it as his subject because of its symblic maori history. This video helps give an understanding about the relationships between the Maori and Pakeha with the land today and how close the Maori culture is to its history.

Workbook work sheet Week 6 PDF

Computers and Art 1960 - 2012

Dipity is a free digital timeline website. It was created to organize the content of the web into a logical, visual and interactive timeline. On the timelines you can upload any kind of media, images and text. It allows people to interact and collaberate with each other creating timelines and sequences on all kind of topics.

Check it out http://www.dipity.com/tedles/Computers-and-Art-1960-2012/

Art History and Theory Assignment

Mark Adams

 

 

Land of Memories 1988 Te Koroka, Wakatipu Waimaori, Otago, Te Wai Pounamu

Gold toned silver bromide fibre-based Photos.

This series of Photographs Mark Adams took were from around the South Island.  Adams photography often has a cultural perspective and meaning behind. This series he did alongside Fiona Pardington, shows a journey of the history of Pounamu discovery in the South Island (Adam photographed the Landscapes and Fiona photographed the Pounamu from these sites). The end collection tells a geographical story of where this Pounamu came from which is unique to New Zealand[1].

The Iconography of these images is these photographs of these places were taken because these places are where Pounamu was found in the ground and they are completely free of human interference and show the land as it naturally was when the Maoris took this journey as they searched for Pounamu so we feel as though we are seeing the same views they saw years ago. These picturesque landscapes are iconic to New Zealand as you can only find these mountains and Lake in New Zealand without the pollution people and technology bring. They symbolise land that is scared to the Maoris back then and our culture now which we protect. The large quantities found of Pounamu found were important to the Maoris’ because of the characteristics of the stone. It was strong and tough and the Maoris’ were able to use it in weapons and tools where as now it is mainly wore as jewellery. This series of photographs show a historical journey of the Maoris as they found the Pounamu and show the land as it naturally is, without the influence of technology advancement which has seen power lines and telephone poles go up all over the natural landscape destroying places like this, but showing how our understanding of our cultural past can persevere our landscapes and our culture.[2]

The style of this photograph is naturalistic. It is a black and white semi-panoramic landscape photograph which has been captured on film and produced in the darkroom. It has few textures of the surface of the water, the sky and the rocks smooth while the hills and mountains of the horizon are covered in shrubbery but very lightly textured. The tones shown in the photograph separate these elements while linking them through similar tones and the depth in the image. The composition shows depth and separates into halves although not identical, matching which evoke and investigate the historical context. The gold toning used reduces the black and produces a more blue/black look to the photo which gives the tones a denser and more luminous look so it looks precious and valuable. The way and style it has been produced relates the photograph to history and the processes involved in creating photographs back in our history and shows how even through technology is more advanced we still have an option to let our history influence our present and our future by continuing on using these practises.

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[1]  Two Rooms, Mark Adams, http://tworooms.co.nz/artists/mark-adams/. Date viewed 27^th March 2012

[2]  The Arts Foundation, Mark Adams, http://www.thearts.co.nz/artist_page.php&aid=58&type=bio. Date Viewed 27^th March 2012.

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Digital Literacy Week 3

Scanned Image

Sarah McKay, "untitled", 2011

This was created one day when I was bored in class and had nothing to do and was playing cards on my laptop again and got caught by my teacher and sent to the darkroom to do something, anything, more constructive with my time...

It is an image of a skeleton with an overlayed strip of negative with nothing on it that I scratched with a blade randomly, then developed alternatively, rather than in the tray like normal people.

Workbook Worksheet Week 3 PDF

Digital Literacy Week 2

Edited in Adobe Photoshop. I have changed the colours of the hose and the brush head, and I might have multiplied the dogs and re-sized two of them...

Workbook Worksheet Week 2 PDF