CULTURE SWAP. PECKHAM RESEARCH
These are the research photos I took in Peckham. Finding textures, contrasts and people. I wanted to have as much information possible so then I could make beautiful collages in class.
THIS IS THE PEACE WALL IN PECKHAM
The library: looking at contrast an colors. I was interested in the contrast between the turquoise, the orange and the greens and browns of dry vegetation.
Photo of the Peckham peace wall from the distance: it looks like a print itself. I was curious about the beautiful and hopeful messages on each color square. This wall was by itself a culture swap of nice messages between tourists, people from different background, ages, sexes...
I focus also in the mixture of messages in the stores, and the variety of products they sold, so they could satisfy the needs of people from different cultures that lived there.
I saw in a corner this beautiful building and I realized it was a cinema. I decided to search in the internet for it and I discovered it was one on the best independent cinemas in the city.
More shop windows and street images
I went into this store and fell in love with this prints. I talk for ours with the owner about the different origins of the fabrics, and how they where made. I was curious about using those techniques.
More shop windows. Here you can perfectly see the mixture of cultures.
VIDEO EXPERIMENT: After taking all those pictures of things I like, I was ready to look to people and study the different types of person I could find.
As I was shy to take photographs of people without their permission, I decided to hide the camera and do a video of everything that I saw. Then I got the photos from the video.
KOREAN ART. CULTURE SWAP
My partner in the culture swap project was Korean, and she gave me some images to work on. Later on I started to research for Korean art myself
Korean Architecture
Korean traditional paintings
More Architecture
Tradicional paintings
TEXTURES FROM THE RESEARCH. CULTURE SWAP
Using patterns in different elements in the photographs I took in Peckham and in the Korean research photographs and using repetitions.
Textiles from the Royal textile shop
Textiles from the Royal textile shop
Street floor
A part of a Korean painting
Street floor
Textiles from the Royal textile shop
A part of a tiger from a Korean painting
Textiles from the Royal textile shop
Awning
The gills of a fish from a Korean painting
The mountains from a Korean painting
The wall from the street
Textiles from the Royal textile shop
The scales of a fish from a Korean painting
Textiles from the Royal textile shop
the wall from the street
COLOUR PROJECT: MADRID IN WINTER
In the color project I decided to focus on Madrid and the light the city had in winter. I started looking at shapes, landscapes, and buildings.
REINA SOFIA MUSEUM
SECOND DRAWINGS INTERPRETING THE FIRST MADRID'S QUICK SKETCHES
FRUIT MACHINE
Richard Hamilton: Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing
I started focusing on the small detail of the collage and I began analyzing and researching.
COLLAGE'S CARPET: People in the beach from the distance
People in a Spanish beach: all about color in contrast with the representation of the beach Richard Hamilton does.
FRUIT MACHINE: CONDENAST MAGAZINE INTERIOR DESIGN 1950'S PHOTOS
I began researching about interior design in the 1950's: textures shapes elements etc.
FRUIT MACHINE: People 1950's
Looking to the woman and the man in the collage I decides to focus as well on the 1950's society and how it worked.
Philippe Halsman photos of people in the 1950's
Sexism in publicity in the 1950's
Body Building 1950's. In this time this practice began.
CORDUROY/ WATER
Corduroy is a very strong material, but as well very flexible. I decided to focus on the opposite. I tried to find the most rigid part in the most ephemeral material: water
The FOAM PROJECT: I decided to use foam while I was taking a Bath.
FOAM Experiment: I decided to put foam in a glass table and put light beneath. The result was these rigid and solid shapes created by the light reflecting in the bubbles in a dark room.
ALGARVE BEACH: looking at some summer photographs I had my next idea. A very solid and rigid part of water is as well it's reflection, it looks like a mirror.
CD Experiment: I thought about how could I represent the waves and the water reflection in one single element. A CD came to my mind, as it is a mirror, it is curved, and it is light.
I decided to put 40 CDs in a table and look at how the light reflected in them
METAL SCULPTURE SIMULATING THE WATER: I found this metal sheets in a store and I decided to make them look like waves
CORDUROY: How CLAUDE MONET treats the water
My final outcome came unexpected. I was blocked with the water concept when I went to this Monet exposition.
I was surprised about how he treated water. He used the same concept I thought about: the reflection in water.
He painted water only painting the reflection, and immediately you can say that part of the painting is water, when there is no common characteristic of water in the painting.
I did this collages with Monet paintings: I used this ideas and I combine them with the manipulation of the CDs. Finally I came with my final samples.