Dec 2018 – Page 2 – FAYE TIKIC

Dec 26, 2018Jan 4, 2019

Finalising Producing Photo-book

Once I had my final illustrations I was able to insert them into the projects I have previously created on snapfish I played around with the layouts, fonts, sizes and composition of the pages. I narrowed these down to what I could imagine in presentation.

Final production

in the making.jpg — This was the design I chose in the end, I mainly focused on developing the front cover as the contents of the book would stay the same. The book journeys through the images in order of the village therefore the format of this would be consistent throughout development.

Once I was happy with all aspects of the book such as composition, spelling etc I sent it off to be proffesionally printed, I chose an 8×8″ hardcover book to embody this work, contained, practical and effective. I was happy with the process of making this book, I found it smooth and successful while gaining new skills and experiences, next time I would have liked to produce a larger book with a matted finished, this would require funding so if I was to do this again I would have attempted to raise some money for the outcome through my own market stall at the Northenden Saturday Market.

Dec 21, 2018Jan 4, 2019

Producing Illustrations

After selecting the final 25 images from my photo’s, I began to roughly sketch out proportions and composition of each piece. I used good quality, off white thick paper for a vintage aesthtic furthering a sense of past within the works.

I drew all the images in pencil first, once I had my body of drawings I began to fill around areas and add detail using black sharpies and fine liner for sharp and distant details.

I felt inspired by Bob Dylans works while creating these, recreating scenes through imaginative lines and form, this inspiration allowed me to focus on the core moment of the image, dimissing straight and perfect lines/form to add true character and expression of Northenden Village.

Here are a few final images

Dec 21, 2018Dec 30, 2018

Art Therapy workshop Acvtivites

I have carried out a variety of automatic activites with my two students including: poetry tasks, emotional colour wheel, inkblot test, sculpture, automatic drawing and visual questionnaire. I have accumulated the results into a clear file which I can reference throughout the rest of my project.

I have posted the emotion wheel and drawing activities earlier this month however below you can view the outcomes from tasks: cut up poetry, inkblot, sculpture and questionnaire.

Cut up poetry

Individual 1 – Poem one

Energy equation, one hope
beyond the grasp.
water in the pot, boiled egg?
boiled egg, egg, your egg
liquid volume, internal energy, saturated power plant.
innumerable things beyond

poem two

Ambient, warming, atmopheric properties
compensate, elaborate
creed limitations constantly represent importance
liquid eggs function constantly
perhaps touch, quality, taste, compensate

Individual 2 – poem one

your apparatus
human mind
touch your senses
beyond the religeous eye
understand and admit
the importance of dreams
knowlegde cannot pass
grasp it while you can

poem two

Frightened fish walking on water?
looking beyond me at other people
children laughing on the beach
passions of her love of venice
old city music
ill give you the last line
reminding you of the sea back home

Ekphrastic poems – poetry inspired by an artwork

Student A

Colourful buzz, yellow comfort
so near.
Cobbled blanket in blind air
runs beneath less turbulent skies
reassurance darkens in flash bright white
crash!
Calm is here,
await a storm

Student B

Giant wave!
The volcanic engaging flow
turbulent sea almost vomit crashing waves
Giant wave!
Simple elements, strength, power
Giant wave!

Student A

Speedy colour yielding mood
yellow glow breaks through, deluded great night’s sky dusts over.
A powerful duet,
heats its surfaces
warm glow, sings the stars tonightStudent BCobbled calming footpaths create a stage
starry dusk lit evening
inviting folk to dine and drink
relaxing exchange of the days to do’s
evening beckons – bring on the booze
Student BCobbled calming footpaths create a stage
starry dusk lit evening
inviting folk to dine and drink
relaxing exchange of the days to do’s
evening beckons – bring on the boozeInk blot tests

Individual 1

1 – lungs

2 – top of a roach, feelers legs and a head

3 – an alien

4 – a crab with big claws

5 – cross section of skulls facing each other

Individual 2

1 – two little creatures holding hands (two aliens, orbs)

2 – x ray of the pelvis

3 – portrait of face with ethnic origins wearing earings

4 – two detailed unusual profiles facing one another

5 – part of the body either lungs or the uterus

Automatic scultping

Individual 1

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Individual 2

Visual Questionnaire

Student A

Student B

Workshop Conclusion < view my workshop reflection here

I conducted these activites in a course of four lessons, the individuals desired a one on one approach therefore I repeated the sessions. While doing this, I felt it was smart to interact with the activities alongside them to ensure a comfortable environment, this also expanded my results and provided interesting personal outcomes alongside theirs.

here are a few:

Ekphrastic Poetry

Blue wet velvet, ultimatum
a god in building vision
thrives a crash so impatient
gestures in motion, as we wave goodbye

Noisy timid street, you speak inviting words
you whisper through textured emotion, in light curvy swirls
from the surface below my souls to the thick nights duvet above my hat a rhythm so consistent , so deep below that, under pressure to add bright light to the sky’s starry night

Ink Blot Test

1.Two devilish demon birds holding knives to one another

2.X ray of a rams skull

3.Ant like face

4.Two children holding a balloon

5.Old African sculptures of two heads

Automatic Sculpture

Dec 18, 2018Dec 29, 2018

Manchester Art Gallery 18.12.18

I recently visited the Manchester art gallery to view exhibitions ‘and breathe’ and ‘Speech Acts: Reflection-Imagination-Repetition’ to further my primary research and aid development.

Speech Acts: Reflection-Imagination-Repetition’

(Friday 25 May 2018–Monday 22 April 2019)

This exhibiton peeked my interest as it explores and considers what is on display in the gallery and how this reflects and shapes our collective view and imagination, I came across photography titled Christmas Day (1979) by artist Rasheed Araeen, I felt captured in the colours and composition before me, conveying speed and light reflections of himself in windows on a circle line train in London on Xmas day. I fell for the rich emotion of the work and became inspired to utilise an exploation of developed photography in relation to identity and memory.

Response works: Rasheed Araeen and Rorschach

I felt inspired by Araeen to explore phptography by tampering and warping my photography, producing inkblots in response to Rorschach by carefully bleaching dark photos – this was completely impulsive, I had no idea what would happen, but i wanted to begin experimenting. I’m very pleased with the results, I was intending on creating some standard inkblots using watered down paint but I feel this material should be applied as a test for my students. I have also decided to pursue this technique for my final outcome, I feel these works echo psychoanalysis while holding ambiguity. I don’t want to use inkblots as a final piece therefore I will begin combining ideas and developing my final concept. ( perhaps idea that solid photo is logical conscious, bleached areas are almost the unsconcious fighting to surface, a war between the two areas of the self)

Manchester Art Gallery – And Breathe

(Friday 16 March 2018–Sunday 27 October 2019)

I visited this exhibition to gain in theme contextual research as the collective exhibiton explores the link between art and wellbeing, it was co-curated with mental health groups ‘Start’ and ‘Mind’ along with pupils from Charlestown Community Primary School to , designed to encourage people to slow down, connect with art – I felt the exploration of the self and art in this exhibition, highly relates to my work on psychoanalysis and theory on arts role in supporting mental health therefore I will draw inspiration from the responding artworks on a visual basis as the process in which the exhibition is designed.

I was pleased to see a range of artists such as Gwen John, Yves Tanguy, Paul Nash, Barbara Hepworth and Marcus Coates.

Image result for and breathe exhibition gwen john — Gwen John

I feel inspired to utilise a simlar approach in my outcome, perhaps a work produced in automatic processes to allow the relationship between the viewer and art form to be the highlight, by producing work in a automtic way I am provided unjudged materials, egoless work that can draw out the ego and unsconcious of the viewer, exercising my theory and playing with our connection to ourselves through art. Therefore my final outcome will play with automatic photography, using old developed photos from my childhood and warping them to explore ideas of surrealism, dreams, memory and identity, ultimately producing an in depth piece that will instigate question and psychoanalysis.

Dec 15, 2018Dec 28, 2018

Artist response work

Yayoi Kusama Response

Acknowledging shapes and stains walls stains and forms imagry

update with scanned in outlined imagery

Inner self-Portrait painting – inspired by Edvard Munch and the Proudfoot brothers.

Here I focused on form and colour drawing through emotional connotations from my colour wheel.

Colour Poetry

Illustrations inspired by O’keefe – harnessing emotions as visuals, a mental depiction of feeling.

edvard munch outsider art focused on form and color of the mind

I created a small booklet to fill with response illustrations in reference to my emotion colour wheel, I focused on moments of varying feeling from my past, such as nostalgia or past views of myself.