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baby clouds

These are drawings and photocopies for a project during which we had to identify and collect our needs.

Wael Shawky exhibition

These were films. I think I sat there for over an hour watching the puppets and the colours and the patterns and listening to the music- i liked it a lot.

Yuri Norstein is my very favourite animator,
 (along with Miyazaki).

this video by Aardman has apparently the smallest animated character ever. I like it a lot- hope i can make something like that some time!

These are some of the drawings I've done for myself. One of my resolutions is to start drawing stories for myself again.

drawing during films

I do this whenever I watch a film I like, to better remember it, and to have something physical I can go back to if I'm looking for ideas.

This is during Amelie Poulain. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/

This was a beautiful film! Le Quatro Volte, about a man who dies, becomes a goat becomes a tree, becomes dust.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1646975/

Free radicals by Len Lye.

Life out of balance.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/

Shame.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1723811/

 

The enigma of Kaspar Hauser.

Sisteria. i didn't actually watch the entire thing. This was one of the rare times we were set to draw a scene from a film. Ususally I don't pause the film when I draw, but here we had to, so there was more time for colour etc...

Salut les Cubains.

Poetry- a Korean film.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1287878/

You are not you forever

Subject Object project. First we were briefed to draw a summary of a news item everyday for a month. I liked that- for a month I knew quite well what was going on and I could remember details better because I'd drawn them. So I think I'll continue that.
I liked drawing on transparent paper during the reportage project- so now I drew on tracing paper. I thought I'd try to photocopy them all together, and it works well! I want to use this that in another project.

 Then we had to choose one story, and make a relic or poster illustrating it. My news story was Nelson Mandela's funeral. I drew in the British museum- they have so many objects that were made for the afterlife, or for catching the soul. It was fascinating.

 It was curious, this split between materials, things, objects and the very unsubstantial stuff of spirits or soul. So I chose to make an object, a memento mori necklace to touch and remember or think about what we will become. I found that to Christians memento mori seemed to show life is not so important because there is an afterlife. I don't believe in an afterlife- not in that way. My memento mori is a sort of celebration- remember you are not you forever, so live!!
So my object shows that Mandela's atoms will spread out, he will be undone. Some will go into the aloe plants (specifically the Ikhala aloe, which is the symbol of the region Mandela was born and buried in) that are growing in the garden above his burial place, then into the birds that eat the plants etc...

I used candle wax. You can also read the spread of Mandela's ideas to the world.