After the week of doing the white space project, I wanted to continue making more work as even though I was pleased with my outcomes, there were so many ideas and themes that I wanted to delve into that I felt like I didn't really get the time to do in the classroom. 

Expanding very far from my projection work, I wanted to create a photography piece inspired by the Bauhaus, constructionist  era. In my projections last week, I took shapes from buildings and the environment and projected them onto the wall in abstract ways, this time I shot a person on film and digitally, making geometric-like movements with their body which I will then replicate on paper but in it's most simplest form. This idea was greatly inspired by Wassily Kadinsky's piece 'Jealousy' as I loved how minimalistic and clever yet straightforward it was. 

Instead of shooting in the studio, due to lack of access, I shot on a plain grass landscape where through my lens I could see half grass and half sky. Already, because it was quite a dismal day, we found white space through how open and grey the sky was. There were a lot of challenges with this shoot being that it was so rainy - I had to ensure my camera wasn't getting damaged by the water whilst making sure that the shots I was taking weren't out of focus or off composition. Moreover, I had to ensure the wellbeing of the model as I didn't want to her to get unwell due to only wearing a t-shirt and leggings on such a cold day. As a result, I was racing against time but I felt like the pressure helped me churn out ideas and be sensible about my decisions. 

When editing the photos, I barely touched them. I wanted to keep it as neutral as possible - similar to the colour palette of the film God's Own Country as I didn't want the focus to be on any fancy technical, edit but, instead on the different basic shapes that you can find within the human body. Next, in order to make the work original to my own and not just a rip off of Bauhaus artists, I will incorporate collaging and different printing techniques to play with the way I can present the work and how this will effect the way an audience will reflect and question the final piece. 

Thursday's session was a peer assessment morning where we spent an hour looking over our table's work and give critical but fair feedback. It was insightful and helpful to look at where everybody was at with their projects and it made me feel secure that I wasn't behind; everybody seemed to be at the same pace. Each piece of work was really compelling due to how different they all were and how everybody had such contrasting interpretations of what white space was.

My feedback on my work so far on my group was very constructive in enabling me to move forward, as well as, be aware of how an audience perceive my work if that was the final outcome. Here is the feedback I received: 

"Very refined and already feels like a final piece"

"I like how there are people moving around in the background of the people, it incorporates daily life into an abstract concept." 

"Enjoyed the music" 

"Abstract and unique concept to the brief"

"Instead, maybe project the shapes onto a completely blank wall?"

"Move shapes to the beat of the music"

"Maybe the rhythm could be to a heartbeat?" 

"Alternatively, project it onto a living room wall. Ornaments around, people doing domestic tasks to show that it is a part of everyday life." 

In today's contextual practice, we revisited artists such as Barbara Kruger and looked at new artists such as Guy Debord and how their typography, alongside graphic communication, links to the concept of white space. I really enjoyed watching Barabra Kruger's video 'Part Of The Discourse' as I learned a lot about her background and the processes of her work and why she does specific things. I discovered from the video that she takes a DIY and accessible approach with her work, for example: collaging with magazines and plastering work around New York which shows how art can have an unconventional and cheap way of presentation rather than sticking to art galleries and spending loads of money on premium materials. 

We then discussed in groups the perception of beige. It was an effective way for me to fire out impulsive ideas and expand my ideas on such a simple colour. We used both metaphorical and physical connotations such as: Skin, Organic, Autumn and  Neutral. After this, I took an object in my life, a beige Nintendo DS, and described it's qualities; Playful, Geometric, Escapism which, as a result, gave me loads of ideas based around all these themes relating to nostalgia, games and fiction. 

My most successful experiment project was the projection work, where I isolated an abstract shape from a crane, cut it out and placed it under the projector against the wall. This is because I feel that this project has room to develop and expand into something like a projection video, similar to Joost Rekveld's work. I think as well the outcome altogether looked more refined and finished in comparison to the other experiments. 

I found a lot of inspiration in, as mentioned before, Joost Rekveld's work as the origins of his work are so intricate and routing from similar interests as mine of electronic music, they even have scientific elements to it which branches his work outside of just art. 

I think this relates to my manifesto as his work feels very pure, he combines simple sounds and simple shapes using analogue and digital machinery. This links to my manifesto as the whole ethos surrounds the theme of stripping objects back to it's most basic form and I feel these rules can be pointed out within Rekveld's work.