COLOUR PROJECT
DAY 1
I arrived yesterday to Madrid And from the moment I arrived I had the idea of my color project. I just wanted to capture the Madrid Light's in Christmas. For me this is the most amazing thing from Madrid , the light and the orange, ochre and violet tonalities from the sky, the buildings and the parks.
Day 2
Today I went for a 4 hour walk in the afternoon. I decide to change my first technique. For the Culture Swap Project, I focus on taking photographs, and capturing exactly the textures and colors from the environment. For this project I really wanted to get through in my drawings my own perception of Madrid and what suggests me
Day 3
I started mixing the drawings, shapes, textures and colors two get some original prints with some imperfect geometrical shapes. Also I found an acetate that had the exact colour that I wanted to use, and with the perfect light and giving it a shape, I ended up with the perfect structure for a textile.
CULTURE SWAP
DAY1
The first day my partner and I went to Peckham. I was really excited because I've heard about Peckham but I haven't been there yet.
When we arrived, I was surprised by the great cultural mix that there was. After three months living here, I had not seen the integration of many cultures in a neighborhood.
We were fascinated by the fabric stores, the religious stores and especially the markets.
I also had the opportunity to get to know my partner better. She told me many things about her culture, the presence of feminism in her culture and the current music that was heard. I found it curious that the art she liked the most was Japanese art.
DAY2
With all the visual material and drawings that we collected yesterday, today I have dedicated myself to making collages. I collect many images of people, ordinary people, real people, and I tried to represent the mixture of textures of different images of the two cultures over the photos of people. Because practically everything the main street had was commerce I incorporated many posters, objects, food.
DAY3
Today I tried to base myself more on the textures, on the manipulation of the paper and on the mixture of the textures of the images leaving aside the human figure and trying to focus on the textile design but avoiding using the drawing for now. I just wanted to exploit my technique with the paper, really seeing what I was capable of doing. In the afternoon I used the computer to do many tests with photoshop and the results are incredible.
CORDUROY
FOAM EXPERIMENT
I was taking a bath and suddenlty I had the idea for the corduroy project. The corduroy is one of the strongest materials to wear, but is flexible. I decided to use the most ephemeral and ethereal material on earth (water) and look at the strongest and most solid part of it. That night, I did a lot of foam in the bath and I put it in the glass table of my living room. I put some lights beneath, and looked at the shape it made.
CD PROJECT
Looking at some pictures from the beach That I took this summer in Portugal, I decided to focus on another apparently solid quality of water: The reflection.
I decided to put on the same table, but in the morning, 50 cd's and look at the reflection of the light in the cds during the day and how it change.
Other experiments.
I bought today a metal structure and I did a sculpture with it to give one of the strongest materials on earth a organic quality. I did the same with plaster.
CLAUDE MONET:
I went to an exposition of this amazing painter and I realized he represented water by painting its reflection. I decided to continue with the cds and I started trying to do some little sculptural textiles with the cds inspired my the Monet's Paintings. Finally I started playing around with them in the body with some illustrations changing their scale
FRUIT MACHINE
This project has been a challenge, I wrote every day during the whole process but decided to make a final reflection, reviewing everything I had written.
At first, I was a little lost because I did not receive my image until the following week.
The good thing was that we had a weaving workshop the first day so I had time to catch up. The workshop was very useful for me because learning a new technique meant I could express myself in another way. I immediately went to buy materials inspired by my image and I started to practice weaving and making collages trying to understand the materials of the fifties.
I took each element of Richard Hamilton's collage and analyzed it separately. I knew right away that I wanted to do something related to the figure of women in the 50s. How the beginning of capitalism affected women. Also, all the macho sexism that was behind.
The first step was to try to know in depth the fifties, watching movies, seeing the clothes that were used, fabrics, colors, textures. With this information, I made many types of varied textiles, both prints, and weavings. Then I started applying them to photos of women from the 50s.
I have always been really interested in feminism, and I'm really close to the issue of domestic violence. I wanted to use this passion for fighting for woman rights since I started the foundation course. I haven't got the opportunity until now to use this theme. For the first time, this theme introduced to me by the Richard Hamilton collage gave me the opportunity to show the domestic violence and sexism in this time.