C.V.

Bibliography

Artists:

Saul Bass
Sol LeWitt
Charles Sheeler

Bruno Munari
Marcel Kaczmarek

Alexander Rodchenko

Andy Gilmore

Arjan Janseen

Books:

Ways of Looking- John Berger

Design as Art- Bruno Munari

Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat- Oliver Sacks

Sites:

http://www.booooooom.com/

http://butdoesitfloat.com/

http://bookcoverarchive.com/

http://grainedit.com/2011/12/09/anton-pearson/

Endings

So this is my final entry onto the blog. The images are soon to be printed and put out into the show, some more variations shall be created but this will be after the blog hand in date and thus they won't be written about. I feel I have come to a solid resolution in my work and have really managed to tackle the issues of content within my pieces.

Phantoms

A new day a new image. With this I was focusing on a selection of cases of phantoms limbs, I wanted to show the staccato relationship of body, mind and limbs and in the design I believe I have achieved this. Discontinuation in style and substance.

I like the base.

Void Hands

The case of 'Hands' in which a lady with cerebral palsy has no functionality in her hands and as she describes them 'they are lumps of clay' and this lack mobility I decided to highlight with the red circles and using this image of the lady in which her hands are behind her back it highlights their lack of use, and again the reverse of the lettering suggests a sort of 'error'. The red line represents her blindness and the grey void is an attempt to encapsulate the distancing feeling from living in a world with no use of hands or vision.

Generic comment.

Not so Sure

I moved on to the case of 'The man who fell out of bed' it was the story of a man who experienced a variation of phantom limb in which he was convinced his left left was not his own, so in this sense he had a false identity to his own limb. I tried to represent this with the alteration of the leg within the image but also the '(L)' represenitng this too. The manipulation of the eyes is a nod toward his lack of visual recognition of his own limb.

Im still undecided on these.

The Disembodied Lady

This image was based on the case 'The Disembodied Lady' where the patient failed to control her limbs, her legs and arms would flail uncontrollably and she would move almost like a rag doll, however mentally she was completely unaffected and in this sense she was trapped in this vessel of her body that could not function. The symptoms were also seen in patients who would take an excessive amount of Vitamin B6 in their diets.

The final image and an earlier example.