Final Major Project

Eight weeks ago, I started my final major project for foundation. The theme of said project is the play ‘’A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. No particular aim, i wanted to keep it as open as possible because i knew i would get bored of it at some point and that would be when I’d have to turn around and start working in a totally different direction.

Mumshape

It’s my mother’s birthday tomorrow. I made this for her:

I made an origami box with a lid and covered it in fabric. Inside it is a pop-out poem on a piece of tissue paper. The poem is called Adlestrop, by Edward Thomas. I filled the inside of the box with speckled feathers and that false shrubbery stuff you get for toy train sets and things. It’s relevant because the poem revolves around a rural English countryside day.

What I was getting at, in making it, was a sort of place, a place inside a box that is private. A space of solitude and contentment. That you can carry around with you. I think she will make good usage of it.

This is the poem:

Yes. I remember Adlestrop—
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.

The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop—only the name

And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

3 Dimentionally Speaking...

In extention of the 3D illustration project, which I really really enjoyed, I made this speech bubble cushion type thing.

Like a creeper, I spent a lot of my time eavesdropping upon the conversations of others. It’s so interesting just listening to other people talk about their lives. Especially in Selfridges, they were truly ridiculous, this is an example of what i heard in there:

“i’m looking for a breakfast tray, you know..?”
“oh, you’ll have to look in our breakfasting section madam."

Lol.

I block printed ‘ARE YOU LOST?’ onto a piece of fabric, which i then sewed up and stuffer to make a speech bubble cushion. I had the idea to make loads of them, really massive ones and then takes photographs of them hanging about London, or superimpose them into photographs. But i haven’t got round to that yet. *sigh*

...un jour...

Old Ladies and Business Men

I made these dolls for a short 3D illustration project in...February or something. The guidelines of the project were to create a piece of 3D illustration based of research we’d complied from observing London’s beautiful public. I had ideas to make many many different dolls. A tall lanky student or a round mother with identical miniature children for example. But the time constraints of the project restricted me (to ten days). So that was a stretch. I chose three of my favourite envisioned characters.

The first is a business man. He is tall and skinny. He is stone blue, because blue is a colour that blends in; A colour that everyone agrees with. His attire is a clean cut suit (it’s from Marks and Spencer). The business man doesn’t have a face. Therefore he doesn’t have any facial expression. He stands on the tube with glazed non-existent eyes. He is a human piece of tofu: he mixes well with everything but doesn’t really stand out.

The second and third are two little old ladies. The kind that live in deepest rural England (where i come from), and decide to exchange, for a day, the Cotswold stone houses and single carriageway roads for vast London. The kind that come up to London for a coach day trip. They bring packed lunches and go to Covent Garden and have tea.