Friday's Identities Work - Who Am I?

We've been having a lecture on Friday for the past two weeks taken by an artist trying to get us think about our identity's and what this means. Like we're not doing this already?

Heres the task we were set...
• Create your own portrait using the object collection you have selected. (you do not need to put yourself in this image)
• Explore composition and location.
• Find a real location or construct a location using ideas from last weeks mapping tasks or your mood board work.
• Experiment with how you photograph your objects in this environment considering scale, light and framing.
• Consider the narratives these objects seem to write, look at the affect of combining objects. You may exclude one object that you feel doesn't fit the portrait you want to create.
• Experiment with more formal and apparently chaotic compositions.
• Explore how much the narratives can change through different compositions of the object, as they are placed both individually and together.

Ive taken three photos - all different compositions and Ive readjusted them on photoshop everso slightly. Not sure which one I like the best... most likley I'll tell you soon.
Take a look - let me know what you think.

Deb Tucks Identities Task

This week in identities we were talking about corporate identities and how they change through time.
We were also given the task of making ourselfs into a 3D shape thats reflects us in some way. I've chosen to be a cube because I think Ive got lots of interesting sides to me. I'm not onesided. Also because the points reflect the different 'points' of my personality - let me explain. One point is courage, one is my reliableness etc.
The colours also represent me (they arent just there to look pretty... although it helps). The cube is multicoloured because it shows that I'm mixed up. It also represents a point in my life right now - how I dont know which pathway to take on this course.

If you had to be a 3D shape.... what would you be? Think about it, it's harder than you think.

Seminar Work.

Listening to Gavin DeGraw - who is an awesome person :).

Thought I best do some work too... (see below).

Before starting this course, I only really did creative stuff for my work and my Mum's business, so I guess it was all done for them. Occasionally I did a bit for myself but more art than computer based. Now though, I find myself doing it more for me and enjoying it. I think I did it in this way because I've always been too lazy just to sit down and do something for me, but now, Im learning all these interesting techniques and wanting to try them out more myself. The college/school work was done, obviously, because I had to do it to pass the course. The work for my Mums business was done cuz she asked me to, I couldnt really say 'no' could I?

At this point in time I want the future of MY creativity to be for three purposes. 1 - my work cuz I want to go into graphics (maybe). 2 - for me. Cuz whats the point in not doing something for myself, and hopefully I'll learn some really cool techniques which I can use over again. 3 - for my Mum cuz she won't pay anyone else to do it when I can do it for free. I want my future creativity to be everything from doodling on a piece of paper, to making the most awesome print based stuff.

By doing research, I have been able to see what other people in that field are doing and take ideas from their work. Also, I have been able to carry on on-going projects, this from of research is interim. But I'd say I probably use exploritory research the most.

The research type that I don't like to use (or feel wary of) is pilot because I dont like doing things on a small scale. If I reserach something then I'll go all out for it.
The way I start research is that I look behind that research into the social, political and cultural context (among other things). The way I feel it ios best to start research is to look In or through that research seeing how the work came together and the processes behind that work.

]there you have it... an insight into how I work - how fasinating.