The edited cup for experimental purposes. I had the idea that I would use an actual mug as the logo design, but it didn't quite look fantastic. So, after a couple of edits down and this being as good as it could quite possibly get - I decided to ditch the mug idea and go back to the drawing board. (The drawing board where taking a picture of a cup wasn't on it) 

Illustration Compilation

This is a compilation of my doodles that I considered using within the process of creating my Final. I didn't use the all because after trying out a few different ideas - I decided they weren't just right for my design. So, therefore I only used the ones that worked well compositionally and decided to draw up some more that I thought would fit well. This is them all together!
Edited in Photoshop, scanning them in and changing the alteration of the colours to make them crisp - then using the paint brush tool and opacity to add shape, form and colour. 

Ai Wei Wei and Lego

Last month, Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei made headlines when he called out Danish toy company LEGO for its "censorship and discrimination", when they refused to sell him a large order of their iconic coloured bricks, on the grounds that they do not support the use of its products for "any political, religious, racist, obscene or defaming statements." In retaliation, Ai Wei Wei has launched an attack on social media, by posting over 40 images of famous political activists and religious figures all made out of LEGO, with the aim of sharing 10 images each day for 18 days. "What we're doing is fighting for very basic human values," said the artist, "such as freedom of speech and human rights." So far the artist has posted portraits of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do, Egyptian blogger Ahmed Douma, and Nobel Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi, and you can expect many more to come.

How I feel -

Ai Wei Wei is so right in doing this. I'm not surprised that Ai was unable to do something, yet again; with how opinionated these people are towards Ai. He's a passionate character and I can't wait to keep up with the images he is releasing!

Religion - Buddhism

Buddhism 

Reincarnation 

Reincarnation is the act in which you are reborn once you have died. A constant depiction of life where one does genuinely never really 'Die' - Samsara. Samsara is highly predominant within the Buddhist religion. You do, however, change our 'outer shell' when reborn - you are reformed character but the inner personality remains the same. You may be reborn as a different species - but your spiritual internal basis stays the same. 

This applies to Metamorphosis because you are changing your outer-shell and becoming (transforming) into another. A Buddhist solely believes this is the outcome once you have passed your human form. 

Corporal Cognisance - Sherri Cornett

LENSE BASED ART

Corporal Cognisance

"Our bodies are repositories of our memories and experiences– not just in our minds, but also in the fibers of our muscles, in the expressions of our faces, in our movements, in our rhythms. The shifts in this piece reflect body rhythms: background (eye blinks), journal (respiration), images of travel (upper left, daydreaming/theta brain waves), nature (upper right, deep sleep/delta waves), family/friends (lower left, problem solving/beta waves) and random memories (lower right, meditation/alpha waves)."

I believe this applied to Metamorphosis because of the body. We grow, change and every 2 weeks we even shed our outer layer (skin) to renew itself. We constantly change and grow in different ways - transforming into something ever so slightly different. We are born to slowly but surely die, too (depressing fact of the day ha). We develop wrinkles, we age. We are constantly changing. Sherri Cornett's Lense Based Art piece shows our skin; our wrinkles; our muscles and blinking. Nature, family, friends, memories. Everything that regularly and frequently changes on a regular basis therefore supporting metamorphosis. I like the style in which she has made this Lense Based piece because I think it's a very spiritual piece. It's very unusual and makes you think in depth, which was indefinitely her intention. 

Sherri Cornett's Site Art

Installation by Anila Quayyum Agha

"Winner of both the public and juried vote of artprize 2014, pakistani artist anila quayyum aghaexercises the architecture of the grand rapids art museum in michigan by infilling it with a dynamic interplay of shadow and light. ‘intersections’ comprises a 6.5-foot laser-cut wooden cube pierced with carefully crafted patterns and illuminated from the inside, which casts expansive, lace-like geometries onto the surrounding walls, ceiling and floor. ‘intersections’ mirrors the geometrical patterning present in islamic sacred spaces, and is derived from the artists own experiences growing up in pakistan. ‘the wooden frieze emulates a pattern from the alhambra, which was poised at the intersection of history, culture and art and was a place where islamic and western discourses, met and co-existed in harmony and served as a testament to the symbiosis of difference’, quayyum agha explains. ‘for me the familiarity of the space visited at the alhambra palace and the memories of another time and place from my past, coalesced in creating this project."


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Inspired by mosques that she has visited. She took photos of the structures that inspired her, which later than determined her own designs to develop her piece. This is a Box with a light inside to project the imagery all over the room. When people go to see it, they instantly become part of the sculpture because they have the patterns on themselves. 
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