Tish tash tosh

Fog that surrounded Middlesbrough.

A picture for my new topic in Art called: human.

Currently exploring communication, probably move on next week to inhumane ways.

My birthday: Colin the Caterpillar cake= winner.

Another thing for my project on communication. A scanned in a drawing, i then inversed and put special effects on.
From my last project in fashion/textiles. It doesn't actually get dark at the bottom.
It's just my bad documentation skills.



The eyes and the mouth are key aspects in judging someones mood and for what to look at or listen to when face to face in order to fully understand what the person is saying.


Or at least i think so.


Martina I'm sorry I'm missing thanksgiving :( me and Ryan promise to fulfill our consolation of cooking you a meal at your house one day!!!

Miss you, obviously.


Inabit. x

Textile final peice.

It's based on ivy and man (though admittedly it doesnt look much like ivy) both striving forth to survival without looking around to see what they are doing to what they need to survive and the destruction they cause.

It shows this by not allowing the wearer to see sideways, like wearing blinkers.

Made from see through fabric with a cut in ivy patter aswell as died with inks, tissue paper treated in a similar manner but also with bleach. A silk fabric whcih had wax dripped on in an ivy pattern and all put together to create this head peice that is fragile yet very hard to take off.

Showing the fragility between us and the unknown truth and yet that to see this and to be fully aware it recquires effort and understanding.

Anywho, I turn 20 tomorrow! I'm getting an eisel!!!!!! Very exciting. x

Man is enthusiastic, but he is weak.

A line from my book. The book pictured below infact. Yet another art project, this took more time than most and the outcome is less dramatic but i really like it and enjoy reading it.

This is my other experiment. The brief was "Transform a book into a peice of visual art" I managed a warped, freaky face. In its giant eye it says "face of a killer"... definite room for improvement.

Photo on the way to Darlington to see Skull Sex Scandals and The Sex Generals. Frenchies birthday, it was fantastic.

The mooon!! Same night as the photo above. Need to photoshop the blue it out.

Same night again but closer to home. The road I go down almost every day to either college or Ryans house.

Went to Newcastle this weekend and guess what!!..I LOVE MARTINA :D I'm always much happier after being in her company so thank you thank you thank you Dietrich. And of course Toff.

Tin and Toff, it was lovely!

How could I forget Curtis too :)

Beautiful time.

Thank you x

Out and about

Note the lamp-post buried into the front of the car. The people in it bailed, so it was probably a stolen car. Got a photo of the police interviewing a few people but one shot is very blurred and the other only has their heads as it was taken from in Ryans car at a strange angle.

Geese migrating. Carl, Ryan and me went to somewhere to look at big rocks and loads of these guys joined us.

Ryan helping me get some good shots at Belsay Hall

Me at Belsay Hall, curtesy of Ryan.
Barbies hanging out at Mitzys after their traumatic ordeal being hung in trees and being put in the chinchilla cage.

CCAD

This was my final peice after having 2 weeks to think and produce something with our starting point being "repetition". I had just come back from Norway so didn't have a personal routine to analyse so instead went with something we as humans do repeatedly which i strongly disagree with: abuse the earth. I made a fairytale theory of "bury plastic mindlessly and mindless plastic will grow on trees: and that's not very yummy, no matter what the government tells you." Thanks to Lube and Bono trekking into the woods with me and my bagful of barbies.Some other shots of barbie, i couldn't find a place for the posing headless one so putting it on here seemed the next best thing.


Belsay Hall. Visit it. It's ridiculously beautiful.



Into our 5th week of CCAD now. The first week was getting comfortable. The Second and Third were Expressionism with repetition. The Fourth and now Fifth are graphics with superstition... a final peice is yet to be made... my computor seems to be quite anti photoshop though... doesnt like all this merging layers and complicating curve things... it is third hand though.

I miss Martina Bono Aiko Dietrich.

I am stressing too much.

And I'm going to Manchester this weekend.

It isn't an art focused excursion but inspiration is everywhere and anywhere.

xx

17

17 days left till I'm homeward bound.
I've adjusted into their way of life and found myself some healthy herbal tea.
I have also been to Oslo to visit my grandparents which was actually really great.
They are very easy to be around and they were very considerate of me and Bestefar (,grandad) did everything for me! I didn't put a single plate to the side!!
He was also very good at passing on his wisdom about Oslo, music and art.
Bestemor also told me many things including those topics above and I am very glad I now know what they told me! One topic about a 93 year old German lady who talks very quickly and has only recently discovered her love of art and mainly using watercolours mixed with montages she makes which are mostly quite politically based!

Anyway, I really am now comfortable where I am and I feel much better about myself and I have had a bit of a mental journey if anything.
I've learnt to speak up more about what is on my mind.
To really think about what I'm worrying about and whether it actually matters.
To give more time to my family, who I am so happy to be a part of.
Go for it with ideas and not be so shy about them, they usually turn out to be not so stupid or at least can easily become less silly with some outside input.
I am still quite shy about showing my art, especially in the rough stages but i am getting better and i think art college will help me with that.
To ask for help.
To say when something is wrong
That I have such a good future ahead and have the best person imaginable to share it with.

Anyway, the bottom is a picture of part of one of the berry fields from my bedroom window.

Argh! And i killed a caterpillar today!! :( :( It was really big aswell, twice aslong as my middle finger! I squashed it with the peace sign as I was grabbing one of the twigs to get a better angle into the berries and then this sort of soft thing squished imbetween my fingers and then flopped off ... i thought it was a rogue peice of fabric curled up at first .. but it wasn't *sigh* it didn't move again .. i kept going back to check and i feel so bad ... and then a spider jumped onto me so i felt better now that nature had had its revenge. twudda been a real big butterfly though... pale green with thin yellow lines that were similar to lines that go up a tree trunk with occassional small circles made with the lines. poor guy.


Looking forward to tomorrow.


The lighter green isn't the plant the jagged green on the left are the blackcurrent plants that are ready to be picked :)

Art times in Norvege.

Originally all my sketches had been pretty dark because i was pretty miserable and not really enjoying it fully and feeling pretty used. But! This weekend I just fucked off and did my own thing and rode around and down and up and down and up again a mountain and today I've done a finger painting which makes me feel really good when i look at it and i did whilst outside, really at ease and knowing i didnt have to do anything today at all except look after myself.. (despite the fact i have now cleaned the kitchen twice and done a fair few other chores but hey ho). Hopefully paint a proper composition by the end of next week. xx