A very good piece of news is that all of my university choices have asked me for interviews - my first-choice university letting me know last weekend after I'd sent them some work of mine on a CD. One of my friends on the same course has also been invited for interview.
One of the tasks we will have to do when we're there is to complete a day-long project. Themes, briefs and details will be told to us interviewees in the morning, and it's due in late afternoon.
So, after my tutor received this news on Tuesday, he's decided to assign us day-long projects for practise. I found Tuesday's work tiring, but I felt very accomplished by the end of it.
I was handed a small clipping of text that read the following: "If people have adjusted to a society that is hell-bent on destroying itself, what does that prove about them?"
I did a little reading-up on this quote, and found it was paraphrased from a person known only as 'Case no. 47' in a psychological study - giving this day-long project a name. The quote itself brought to mind Darwin's theory of evolution (and the whole biological side of things, in some ways contrast to psychology yet the two are so tightly entwined) so I decided to research some more upon that train of thought. The piece above, I feel, is one of the more successful pieces - all three were done with monoprint and I feel this one turned out nicely.
And finally, I tinkered in Photoshop with stock images to make one image - a man with the head of a monkey, printed out and used in monoprint. I glued the original image behind the monoprint to give it some more depth (especially as I'd used too much ink in this one ... this ended up working in my favour).
My next one will be assigned on Friday. I've found something in this project that could be taken further, so Thursday will be spent working on that.
2 comments:
congrats on the interviews! I really like these pieces - very grungy & cool. although the concept of a day-long project like that seems very stressful for me. you seem to handle it quite well though! :)
@ Mariza: Thank you! :D
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