Process

The sketches for all three projects are now in progress...



1.Another video project:
this time with the black background - I got rid of the blue color because I couldn't think of much significance to the color blue. I'm still not sure if I would like to keep the color scheme of my presentation monochromatic (Swedish), so this is a test to see if black works....I think it works better than blue for some reason. But at the same time I feel like this looks much less spontaneous than the work I did earlier, it could be because I've done this three times already.

Next step will be trying this out with a patterned background (wallpapers will used for this trial)




2.Bookshelf project:
I just used two shelves that were not used in my room...made by IKEA. I just borrowed some random books from the city library to see whether these not-so-sturdy shelves can hold up some heavy books. Well, not so heavy but at least SOME books.
They did and the tryout turned out to be a completely different result because I kind of like the DIY look of it, almost seeming like a suggestion to an alternative way of using shelves. The color of the pinewood and also the IKEA sticker on the shelf are starting to add to that aesthetic.

I'm not sure, again, whether I will be keeping this aesthetic or making it look more clean. Next week I will be constructing more fitting sized shelves, or two boards on the sides so we will see what happens with those.

During the meeting today with Hans, my tutor, we discussed about the possible use of loose papers instead of books, so when they fall onto the ground all the papers just scatter around. The colored papers, some with photos, some with statements....it becomes another story but I think that would actually be interesting. Maybe I should try that to see how that would work....I will just have to get a lot of paper and stuff...maybe I can try with some free newspapers? I will definitely be stepping into the fleamarket this weekend to check out some cheap books and so on.




3.Wallpaper Project:
I made a quick sketch model of my installation. Imagine the three white surfaces being wallpapers pasted face-down - and the surfaces are three walls that create a corner of a room. I would like to make a settle "hint", a small one, that gives the audience an idea that the space, what seems to be a white room, is filled with patterns that they cannot see, after catching a glimpse of this corner where the wallpapers are cut out and flipped backwards to show three different patterns. When the audience sees that there are three patterns, they can imagine that there could be 6 different patterns in the room - 4 walls, 1 for the ceiling and 1 for the floor. I'm not sure the scale of this part of the installation but I imagine it to be quite small, because I don't want it to be too obvious.

Got a kindly sponsorship from Duro!

Insider information / Outsider Information

Transparency on a mechanic:

"packaging" a system within a form.
By making the inside system more bare the owner of the form becomes more aware of what goes on.

This watch tells two stories:
the time, which is the purpose of the whole system and also the "insider-story" of what tells the time you are looking at. But what value does it add to telling time?

It might make you understand a little more of the complication the watch goes through to tell you the time. By seeing the little metal gadgets inside you notice that the time the watch is showing you that this little device goes through a number of processes (each gear connecting with another) to show you what you see.

The gears, if you were to look them without any result, are just processes to a result. It would be easy to see that they are doing something, but it's hard to figure out what. I've always had passions for inside of mechanics just because they don't tell me anything. It is of course because of my lack of knowledge in mechanics, but I think that is helping me to imagine what it could do.

A small portfolio

Just as a summary of what I have been doing at Konstfack:



Say Yes: Think No
For the Bystander Project (Collaboration with the Museum of Living History)
The aim of this book was to illustrate the difference between what a bystander thinks and says. When a person is faced with an extreme situation that could cause them a harm, they tend to pull themselves away even if there is something to be done. This book was a manual for people in such situations to think of smart things to say to get themselves out as soon as they can.


A Memory Trip to Berlin(To be finalized later):
For Word & Image Final Project
Images in the books were collected from facebooks and they were combined with my memories of Berlin when I lived there between 1999-2002, to create a fake trip as a contribute to the trip to Berlin in April 2008 that never happened because of having to work on a final project for this course!


16.2
For To Use Lautrec Exhibition at the National Museum
The thickness of the book was exactly the same as the difference between my height and the height of an average Swedish man. Inspired by Toulouse-Lautrec feeling outcast because of his physical disability, I wanted to make a personal piece of illustrating how different I was from the people in a place I lived, Stockholm. The book consisted of my experiences of being short, or feeling foreign, photos and illustrations.



A modest exploration of colors (beta):
For Artist's Book Final Project
The paint samples from Ralph Lauren were cut out by hands to be made into 6 different books. All colors are different, but once you flip the pages the aesthetic of the book is ruined by the rather stern logos on the back of the colors being visible.

Video

The video is now on youtube!