SPACE POSTER TRIAL (A1)

LFF - CULT

For the identity and concept behind the London Film festival I have been looking into the classification of the actual festival it's self. Even though on a mass scale, I like the idea of it being a cult following, therefore connecting it to religion with the idea of congregation, and worship. A gathering to almost pay respects to the film itself. Looking at historical Florentine paintings, compositions and viewpoints can be used to help strengthen the image (poster or design) as Jesus/Mary is always the centre piece, with perspective and inner shapes being used to attract the viewer towards the centre of the image. The use of modern methods to publicize religion today resorting to neon lights to me has a strange, commercial but also theatrical approach. Within this design I hope to combine the methods and compositional structure of florentine paintings and use of neon commercialism.   

DARK IN DARK TRIALS

Simple idea of merely trying to achieve spacial awareness 

by only the slightest touches, using the darkest shades all 

over 97% black and simple perspective. Different possibilities 

of shapes but also lighting to create further depth. 

POLAR FOR COLA

Possible Hybrid Sources

CHARCOAL - DARK

On the concept of the D.I.Y project, looking into light and dark and spatial awareness I decided to just purely cover an A2 piece of granulated paper in pure charcoal. I do feel it's important through out any project or process of work to simply get what ever is in your mind out on paper and out of your system. No matter how daft or pointless the task at hand seems. The process of drawing this image lead me to the idea of depth within darkness. To close your eyes puts you automatically into a granulated texture of darkness with specks of light, these fractions of light playing with your mind and thought.

The image below has an inlay of a box using simple perspective and different levels of darkness to try to achieve depth, hopefully through almost the same shade to create the illusion of just a plain sheet of black paper. However as a first trial the lines between shades are too prominent. 

  

THE OLD AND FORGOTTEN

Communicating Vessels - Polar Environment

Charcoal Drawing 

(not a very good photograph)

Communicating Vessels - Being Human

Lucid Dreams to Virtual Reality

Lucid dreams/Waking life allows you to be awake within your dreams which surrealists studied, however in the modern world with digital technology, are our lucid dreams becoming digitalized within the possibilities of Virtual reality? Being in a world where anything is possible and the restrictions of the world are no longer an obstacle. 

Is this the extended world of Lucid Dreams?

Digital Environment's Elective:

"Some of the topics brought up to day did however further my opinion of how digital is becoming dangerous, such as HAPTIC, where the physical feedback from a virtual world can be felt. Where is this next going to take us? Where we can not differentiate from reality and virtual? Not in the near future but what I think we must be cautious about is that it can happen and we as human beings could loose the effectiveness of being in reality, therefore loosing the joys of being alive. The question pressed: "What is living?" or "What is life?" 

Could we live our lives virtually (already slowly happening on facebook) and still say that we have lived?"

Communicating Vessels

Diego Rivera

"Communicating Vessels"

"Waking Life"

With the final piece now chosen for the Magic Museum brief the print "Communicating Vessels" from the exhibition Mexican Prints 1910-1960 in the British Museum. It was inspired by Andre Breton, a French wrier, poet and surrealist theorist, on his visit to Mexico, where the title refers to an essay that Breton had published in 1932. The essay refers to the interaction between the life of dreams and waking life in terms of the ebb and flow of fluid between two containers. Below "Waking life" a film which discovers different aspects of dreams and the restrictions and the polar aspect of being in control and awake in your dreams, being able to control. To ask yourself "is this a dream?" whilst still asleep.