Second Year of University

We were asked to:

Produce an individual body of work which is three finished 10 x 8 images made in the dark room and three 10 x 8 sized panels of test strips.

From this select one final images and contextualise and reconfigure it digitally in the collaborative team.

In the end the work will be a part of a group collaborative exhibition entitled ‘Equivocal’ where a final collaboration piece and the chosen individual pieces will be on display.

The title of the piece is ‘Art evokes the mystery’ which is a quote by surrealist Rene Magritte. The story behind this piece was to create work which had no relation in context to fit into the exhibition ‘Equivocal’. I found the quote since my experimentation pieces were dreamy and lost in thought so I looked at surrealism to explain my own ideas which then influenced the final piece. The image fits the idea of surrealism since it is lost in thoughts and anyone could interporate it different and see and imagine different narratives to it. As a group we produce similar experiments with the focus on the figures and the eyes but once the text was added it gave the piece narrative which anyone can understand. This is also why it works well with the exhibition ‘Equivocal’ since new narratives can be created depending on the audience.

My contribution to the final piece was the second image shown which was made by rock salt with ink glued onto tracing paper with spray mount then placed in the enlarger. This was exposed for seven seconds. The cubes in the image are the rock salt and the dotted effect is the spray mount residue.

I also created the typography work for the final piece by finding text about surrealists and printing the page off and moving the page in a scanner whilst the paper is being scanned.