Evaluation

My project really changed and developed a lot comparing to my first version of project proposal which I uploaded roughly 3 weeks ago. Before the first edition, I was trying to continues with the “Here” project and trying to discover what are the other sigh languages that can be used.

(Sketches i did that time)

But then I find this doesn’t work cause it’s already a bit too restricted and not very motivating, therefore I decided to pick up only one element from the previous project to give myself a bigger space to explore. I picked up the element ‘scale’ and developed it to the project that I finally made.

I did an artist research to discover artists who also play with scale and I quite like Florentijn Hofman, who is famous for his piece Rubber Duck. He played with scale by enlarging a toy or animal into an enormous size, due to his subject choice, his works are very welcomed by the public and brings people a healing and comfort feeling. I like how his work brings the public together by having a very approachable appearance. Just like the opposite of —-, I chose a particularly small object rather than enlarging something to play with scale. When the object of reference is small, then in contrast other things are relatively bigger. Therefore I chose a small toy crab as the object and intended to do a story board from photos i took. While I was considering the using of material, I did several try outs. At first I was intended to do it in digital format, but it was quite time consuming cause i was trying to show too much details. Then I tried three different types of method, and chose the one that I preferred by comparing whether the object stands out; whether the laying is clear, etc.

While considering how to display the story board in a hanging way, I discovered another artist, Alexander Calder. As I mentioned in the previous post, I looked up his work and find the Fish very inspiring and helpful to my own ideas. Rather than hanging the story board in a normal sequenced way, I did a crab shaped frame and hanged the pieces of stories in it. So it was converted into an installation type of piece instead of doing it in a convention way. Combining other materials with illustration elements was the biggest achievements that I personally consider i have achieved because I used to think illustrations are meant to be quite flat and restricted into book or storyboard formats. I didn’t put every first hand resource i took into the final piece, considering the layout and composition of hanging not to be too condensed and a bit time issue as well. At the same time, I find talking to tutors and peers very useful as sometimes I get very inspiring artists references and different perspective opinions from them, the process of explaining my project to others also helps me to have a scrutiny through it.