User:Stonestone/RWRM-01
Related previous work
After last trimester, I changed my direction from purely video making into 3d works. I started working on 3d works since 2016 May. Recently, I started my new project called 100 Days which is to make an (moving and still) image everyday (100 days in total). The elements of these images are mainly human bodies (females), animals. Besides creating things, it is also a good chance for me to prectise my skill and see where I am going to. After 100 days, I would like to put them in a web page and make it an online exhibition on which I can easily show them to people especially for some animated (moving) images by using .gif format.
100 days becomes a diary, reflecting the moods and state of mind of a specific moment of the day. For instance, on Day 4, the main charactor of the image is a sleeping woman. The reason why I made this is because on that day, I was working with 2 sleepy friends, they slept besides me, etc etc. .
This is a part of my methond of making things, focusing on small things at a time, instead of making a big theme and get nothing to say eventually.
Hopefully, after I finish this project, I can see clearer what I can do for the following project which might be a funny and experimental, chaotic short film.(see below for Refs.)
Looking back, I have always used moving image, video as a media for my works. For thoes works I use a particular colour palate.which are "girlie", bright, ice cream, gradient colours.
c o l o u r s
Since there is no strong contrast behind those colours, they do not make any conflict in the images, which engender a peacful state of mind, no dramatics, and always bring peaceful and soft feelings to people.
h u m a n
Human bodies are always the most important part of my works, especially females.
Firstly, I think I understand girls and I prefer female bodies to mens, I like a fit body that has curves (rather than the angular bodies of men), which strengthens the softness of the images.
Although, the forms of my works have been changing all the time, there are always similarities in between them.
c h i l l
Last research of mine is "Space Out Experience", which was also about making a peacful state of mine in the viewer. I am always interested in things which can make people feel relax.
i c e c r e a m
Bright colors.
Graduation Project: Vividly Dead
My graduation work will follow three formal tracks which I have worked on in the work described above
1) Colour
2) Human (female) figuration
3) The manipulation of form
as with previous work, the aim is to solicit a relaxed and not too dramatic feeling.
The work will be a series of images and animations of bonsai trees which use the human body as a plan and uses 3D images as a background. Vividly Dead relates to my culture (China) combines my interest in photography and video.
Introduction
Bonsai
Bonsai (tray planting）is a Japanese art form using trees grown in containers. Similar practices exist in other cultures, including the Chinese tradition of Penjing from which the art originated, and the miniature living landscapes of Vietnamese. The Japanese tradition dates back over a thousand years.
My project
This project is combined with still and moving images, to create a world of Human Bonsai.
It is the only Bonsai image I made without thinking but somehow made me think more. It can be a reference of this project to you who are reading it.
Combination of 3d, 2d, photography and video. I will make human I shoot become a Bonsai by deform (post production) and paint.
Bonsai is from China, me as a Chinese, it comes into my life more or less. Just like the title, Vividly Dead, Bonsai is made by alive plant, but deformed by people. The way it grows, the shape it looks, even the meaning of its life are planned by people. It is a reflection of nature which is artificial, beautiful, imaginary, pretended. Then I think of myself or most of people, we are also a Bonsai planned by the world's rules, the way we grow, the clothes we wear, the face we make make us become "beautiful" and "meaningful" people.
Therefore, I want to make people which made by world become into Bonsai which is a world we make.
Making a Bonsai
Types
Technique
Development
Comparing to Making a Human
What Makes Human Human
Technology is an element that changes people: The Bonsai piece is a development of the previous projects, for instance in my work for example 'touchless' which is a series of transparent people that try to touch each other. It is as if people are starting to make a virtual world for themselves (se); I used a lot of soft gradient colours, which reflects societies impression of what girls should look like. There is an issue of power here, society dictates how people should be: Chinese people, like myself, should behave in a particular way; Germans should be serious Ect. This means, ultimately, that diversity of society will be reduced by these stereotyped impressions.
Dream machine: sometime people want to get out of their bodies and have more intese experience, abnormal experience. last year worked on a project called Space Out, which investigated such technologies of self. I became interested in Burrough's Gysin Dream Machine.
Spaceout:
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Stonestone/secondessayfort2stone
So the work speaks to how society changes people and how external powers influence the subject, which can be matched with how people influence bonsai.
- Rules
- Tech
- etc..
Relationship between Bonsai and Human Bonsai(my project)
Plan:
1) November-December: Begin experiments with myself as a model (body, face,hair,hands. This will represent a technical challenge to determine the style of this work. I want it to be special: ho can I make it special? is the question I want to follow.
2) December- March: get models and assistants together: preferably, I would like as models special looking people with distinctive bodies and different tones of skin and hair, for this I will draw on friends and acquaintances. I will seek the assistance of a hair stylist and ceramicist. I will experiment with painting on bodies
3) December- June: Make the photos and short looping animations, which will be shown in a series.
4) Late June, early July: Graduation show
Series of prints on one wall will be framed and one projection on another wall; there will be a bonsai in between them.
image of setup
References (other artists)
Johnathan Monaghan
http://jonmonaghan.com/
He makes animations that are peaceful and make no sense, always uses architectural features (old buildings or interiors). He also uses animals like cows, deers, bears and horses etc. . They are not symbolic or iconic, they seem devoid of importent issues. The image is all. You don't need to think to much, just feel something.
kyttenjanae
http://kyttenjanae.tumblr.com/
She makes 3d artworks using human body and colorful visual. Her works are full of colors and you can always feel something behind the images. From her work, I saw the possibility of using colors and human bodies.
Blake Kathryn
http://blakekathryn.tumblr.com/