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A little combined design of the other two stickers. I’m marking this as mature because it veers a bit more into explicit gore than the others.
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A different sticker design.
I may attach more of my dictation notes to this in a reblog, or maybe it can be its own post.
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Some progress and develop for sticker/illustration concepts for my exhibition in may. I can’t believe I’ll be graduating soon.
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Some lino print tests. I definitely need to go back over the blocks to clean up the little specks I think
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Some sketchbook pages of werewolf studies
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Double sided zine draft that I made.
I don’t think that I’m much of a writer so sometimes I feel a little odd making zines. I’ll probably try to type out the final one just so that it’s definitely legible for people.
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'Wolf' by Alfred Cubin, (1877 - 1959)
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I’m realising belatedly that this is the same picture, but that’s okay. I was doing some testing in the lead up to my group crit last week. Here I’m playing with some collage layouts for the additional hands and skulls.
I have been thinking that this assemblage practice might not work with the concepts I’m playing with at the moment. That’s okay, I don’t really mind. It’s the nature of practice led work I suppose that you’ll come across in kings that don’t work as well as you’d hope.
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Some photos from my trip to 2 local galleries as part of a seminar at university exploring curatorial practices
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Sascha Schneider, Helplessness of Man Against Destiny, 1890
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I sort of misunderstood on of the forms that I had to fill out, so I'm hoping that it can be fixed further down the line for the exhibition.
this is one of the speculative ideas I have for my 'final' piece so to speak. playing with ideas of autopsies, werewolves and transformations. - though I could do without the second legs looking like grasshoppers.
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as part of some tutorial feedback some lighting/silhouette/cut out art was mentioned. so it got me thinking about shadow puppets and how I could make wolves in a different kind of ways. I took some photos of my hands as though they were a wolf's jaws, and then drew over them to see what these wolves might look like with 'hand-jaws'.
I think that I've almost made them look like cats?
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Thinking about more animalistic werewolves.
I'm wondering what the sweet spot for design is between animal and man.
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Kawanabe Kyōsai, Skeletons, 1881
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putting an content warning on this for imagery relating to autopsies. some digital sketchbook things for exploring ideas, ill put some thoughts under the cut.
these thoughts have been dictated and are mostly unedited:
"I did do some work in the studio yesterday after I got some materials from the tech including a really large roll of paper, which I think is going to be really helpful for thinking about scale and the size of things I want to work in. I did I have some help drawing around myself because I like the idea of figurative things being people sized. I think with the type of work that I make like it helps situated and helps build that sense of unease and uncanny, or abjection if this is something not necessarily life like but life-size. if it has a sense of bodiness it's easier as a viewer to draw comparisons between yourself and the work if it's not far off of your actual height and size.
So I've started thinking about where wolves and werewolf transformation I think attacks that I'm going to refer back to a lot is 'werewolves is queer, queer as werewolves, and queer werewolves', which sort of it covers like a little bit of like the brief history of the werewolf and how it can be read as queer. - and I like that it considers like how that queerness can be from the werewolf's point of view as well as from an outside observer."
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"I'd also like to make a quick aside from where wolves into Still thinking about. The idea of medicalization and score imagery and the imagery of goal in my work. What I've been doing in the studio is drawing near-ish a life sized figure drawings. And one of the things that is currently running through my head is Leonardo's Vitruvian Man. I've seen that image repurposed in. Supernatural films and media before to show Like bodily transformation into lycanthropes and also vampires, but It has been used as an example of like Transforming into Werewolf.
And That also kind of made me think of in vivisection and cabinets of Curiosity's. - And, Sort of museum taxidermy, which also Kind of led me down the line of, like plastification.
I saw ones at a museum, they are bodies that were donated to science and preserved with plastic and resin. It's some of the best research we have on the human body, but I was thinking like What kind of corpse do I want to leave behind? How would that corpse be perceived by The people that find my body or the medical professionals that Register my death?..."
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"And I was also thinking About, Kind of, the ways to evidence lycanthropy, if there is Damage done to the body every transformation. if there's A little bit of the wolf left behind in the human body. If you can never truly transform back. If the human leaves an impression on the wolf and the wolf leaves an impression on the human.
So I'm kind of playing with The imagery of autopsy scars and Cadaver reconstruction. Just thinking about that right now.
It's also way that I'm like thinking about methods of display along with curiosity cabinets like. Is there a way that I could display a 2D image of A body or a werewolf like on A slab, In a medical setting, and playing with those dimensions again. also changing up my ways of display, Could I do Body parts or smaller specimens and put them in like wet specimen jars. I suppose through this I'm also thinking about mis-en-scene and, Like, Scene creation. Universe creation. The suspension of disbelief. But that's something that I'll continue to think about and play out later, I think."
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