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.

Car Boot Sale

To address the issue of using page in my work I visited a car boot sale in hope of induing some older image that related to my project, I then knew i could scan and adapt these images to fit into my work. I had used this technique before, and by scanning then re printing and cutting out individuals it created a satisfying texture and edge to the photographs.

Examples of photographs that have been scanned, cut then re-scanned.

Re-Take

I went back to the original case of the man who mistook his wife for a hat. I had found an image of a man playing the flute and believed it would tie in very nicely, seeing as he was a professor of music. I also figured that using the lines of musical notes would not only portray this but also it represent the geometric shapes he would visualise. I liked the slight facial disfigurement, this was a concept that I had talked to Ceri about during a recent tutorial and I feel it focuses again on the detachment from society but also the break from reality in the mind.

This is a photo from 1066 of William the Conquerer at the battle of Hastings. Oh no it's obviously the aforementioned image, just checking you are reading this.

The Lost Mariner

For the case of the Lost Mariner; taken from Oliver Sack's book, 'The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat.' The Lost Mariner is an elder man, who's mind is trapped in his youth as a submariner. He is an older gentleman in 1975 but inside his mind he believes himself to still be his former 19 year old self in 1945 where he worked as submariner. I was interested in the concept of the submarine and how it half is exposed whilst half is submerged and this gave connotation of the human subconscious and i decided to include this some how in my image. The line acts as some sort of surface, of time or sea and separates the two dates and thus his states of mind and body.

The final image for the Lost Mariner

Other avenues of the image, created before i settled on the former.