Deliberation of Patterns

Pattern  # 12

Pattern  # 13

Pattern  # 14

 The natural world surrounds an immeasurable variety of patterns and understanding patterns of events and forms in order to embody them in design and for them to have a good observation of the many forms in nature. For me one of the ways, which I learn from nature, is through the understating of patterns and forms, which crated by simple physical laws, as an able to de-code any equation’s code in any sort of science.  I reached these patterns of liquid’s mould, by repeating in various ways, using the scanner and work on it in Photoshop. 

Beauty of Decay Process

Process  # 6

When I put these leaves on the flat bed of my scanner,this geometric brown decay decompose, which complex network of lines present in this work an illusion to the vascular tissue of plants, as well as the vascular system of the human body. It forces me to think about how this natural process works. What it wants to tell us? What is connection in this pattern network in universe? What I have to do as an artist?

Research,Marina Abramovic & W. Schels & B...

In In my research I looked in to my subject, life and death in many forms of art by many artist. This time my attention is in the performance art because in my point of view, Performance becomes life and life becomes art and has taken many different forms. Marina Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual form and the body has been both her subject and medium.  The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, is a once in a generation cultural event and a biography of the godmother of performance art, re imagined by visionary director Robert Wilson.  Thinking about life, Death & art help me with the question of each of them about how the social, cultural, religions, economy and even political effects in creativity by emotion and how emotion influences various aspects of the process… and how each type of emotional response to them. In the history of art,“Performance Art” got its start in1960 in America. With that form, performance artists saw the movement as a means of taking their art directly to a public form.  It is alive, has no rules and experimental and artist always strived to use the body as a tool for making their art. The process of decay is like performance art; it grows, and the moulds slowly take over. The performance of its growth is with the sound of its own special music, which grows due to the sound wave frequency, in which we are not able to hear, and is very slow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsPx9sLcbeI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDqNpa-GU4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQFrvd3OLA

http://mif.co.uk/event/robert-wilson-marina-abramovic- 

Still Life # 6

For my Studio Practices project I decided to continue with the theme of decay.  I looked at processing of decay. Here are some images I used as inspiration for the project but in still life style.  This to me, this experiment relates to my research on performance art. The mould is slowly increasing in various directions, like as if it was doing by a sound wave frequency in performance art. If these images were put on large scale, it would look like a planet in space. I would like to have put this on large scale to show the effects and motion I was feeling. 

Research, Merging Art & Science

 According to experts merging Science & Art focuses on biology inspired art, an ancient art form. An early 20^th century instance, Picasso’s “Standing Female Nude in 1910 was inspired by the power of X rays to glimpse beyond inspiration was X ray photographs taken to diagnose the illness of Picasso’s mistress, Fernando Oliver.  Superposed on a background of planes, her body lies open to reveal pelvic hip bones made up of geometrical shapes: forms reduced to geometry, the aesthetic of Cubism inspired by modern science.

These days some of the most innovative artists are merging art and science to create bran new art movement inspired by science.The contemporary gallery GV Art explores and acknowledges the inter-relationship between art and science, and how the areas cross over and inform one another. GV Art’s latest exhibition brings together ‘polymath’ works that create synergies and connect disparate ideas and different schools of thoughts. From Susan Aldworth to David Marron’s Nervous Tissue installation.

Susan Aldworth HEARTBEAT 1&2

  David  Marron Nervous Tissue                                         David Marron Life & Death

What is death? In some senses, that is they key question that runs through the work of contemporary artist David Marron.  His art is about the visual interpretation of a fundamental human condition, that of being between life and death, positioned between the actual objects that surround the body, and their symbolic meaning that survive it.

http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/picasso

http://www.fadwebsite.com/2012/03/03/polymath

http://www.spoonfed.co.uk

Still Life # 9

My digital scans of coconut offer me taken the tradition of still life and nature studies, which is a type of symbolic work of art especially associated with Northen European still life in Flanders & the Netherlands in the 16th & 17th centuries thought loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life & the transient nature of vanity. I taken these images with my flatbed scanner, rather than with a camera, and their creation avoid any lens based processes. In one hand my works embody a more direct relationship between the object represented ant the support on which the image lies and places them closer to prints or photograms than to photographs also allows for transferred of a great amount of detail with a creating a delicate texture and optimism that give emphasis to the coconut’s decay as a natural beauty.  This process gives me  a insight of relationship between science and art.

Natur's Cycles

5.50pm Hatfield at bus station near my uni

4.50am In my daugter's room's window

4.50pm In my area

 It was believed in some cultures that worshiped the sun. The Aztecs believed that the sun was eaten by a God each night, and recreated each morning. So that the God was pleased and allowed the sun to shine upon the Earth again, they also thought that by sacrificing they could please the God, in fright of there being no more sun.  They therefore saw the sun rising each morning as a new birth, and the sun setting as its death. It also symbolizes good light and evil darkness; knowledge light and ignorance darkness; creation light and destruction darkness; a beginning light and the end darkness.

In belief of that, sunrise and sunset represent birth (life) and death. The colors especially support this philosophy. With sunrise being bright, alert and full of good emotions. Where as to comparison with them in sunset, the colours get darker, stronger, and give off and danger emotion but this can also be seen as calm or romantic and opposite of sunrise. This puts a line between the two making them seem so different.

 To me its interesting for these individuals that have no line, putting a difference between sun rise life and sun set death, because I see their start colours to be the same tone and their only difference to be the ending which is a start of another one except emotion it gives up.

In my practice I took photographs of sunrise and sun set.   Throughout this, I had learnt that there is no difference between sunset and sunrise; it was just the after effects that were different. This gave me an insight on how life and death is also in this cycle, with sunrise as birth and sunset and death, they also have the similar after effects, which is the only thing that makes them different and how power of science with technology can affect the tradition cultures.

Decay under Ice pattern

Ice Pattern  # 1

Ice Pattern  # 2

Ice Pattern  # 3

I was going out with my daughter and had spotted this and had to take a photo of this on my mobile, as it was the only camera with me at the time. This type of technology has helped me a lot as I don’t always have my camera with me I always keep my eye out for things that are related to my subject. I found this pattern very interesting, as it was different because it had a pattern of decay under it. I liked this, as it was another forms of showing decay like the ink experiment I done. This enabled me to widen my experiential research with life and death and how art, science and geography have a connection.  

Decay in our invironment

Green Algae

Water Algae

Green Algae Bloom

While I was in London, visiting a gallery, I had lost my way. I tried to find my way and get directions but I couldn’t. I got tired so I just rested. This pond had caught the side of my eye while I was resting; it looked very intriguing so I took a picture with my mobile. I think that this relates to my theme as its like death, slowly taking over life same element that but I admire that it could be ecstatic of something worse in our environment; as wee can see how big the algae is, and can tell that art the start it wasn’t that big and had growed. It has developed and will keep on changing and increasing in size. I loved the patterns and I immediately knew it was perfect; it fit exactly with the theme and have the same element of life and death. It was something that harmful to nature, but it also had a beauty that was part of nature.

Alga blooms may occur in fresh water as well as marine environments.  Typically only one or a few phytoplankton species are involved & same blooms may be recognized by discoloration of the water resulting from the high density of pigmented cells.

Powerful Pigment of Rust

Pigment # 1

This image, sums up my vision and has  developed my theme's process. Those of you that have followed my blog project thus  will know that in previous's posts,  I have been inspired from the aesthetic qualities in quantity of objects in decay.

I took this image while I was on holiday. This immediatly caughht my eye and I saw the connection that it had with my work. This image of rust, made me look for artist that have experimented with rust , thus rust is a powerful pigment, with its vivid hues of red and orange that it lends to all sorts of metals, whether desired or not. I was eager to see how they showed rust in the art  world.

Tony Reason British artist must see a great magnificence in rust, for tha reason that he has made it the center of much of his work; gaint metal panels with rust designs and even rust mixed with wax and painte on canvas. Also seems move away from the smooth surface that and we can see the rust in all its colourful wonder.

This has fantastic texture and the colours are outstanding.  The artist had created a wonderful collage of rust and imputing their filings and vision in this piece of work.

“ This Beautiful contemporary architecture is the facade of a car park in the Saint-Roch neighborhood of Quebec City, Canada. As time passes, the more we appreciate the urban architecture, which surprised many of us when it first appeared. That overlaps the green waves of rust on the front and on the roof, in fact definitely an urban setting out standards and also very successful just          like this facade… “

(http://webecoist.momtastic.com)

(http://www.etsy.com)
(http://www.archithings.com)

Research,Damien Hirst

  

Hirst takes a direct and challenging approach to ideas about existence as he said: “What I try & do is not take the nice things too seriously & then you can avoid the bad things.”

Since the late 1980’s, Damien Hirst has used a various practice of drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation to explore the complex relationship life and death, art. Elucidation: “ Art’s about life and it can’t really be about anything else … there isn’t anything else.” Damien Hirst work challenges and investigates contemporary belief systems, and examine the tension and uncertainties at the heart of human experience.

http://www.gagosian.com/artists/damien-hirst

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hirst.html
Booth-Clibborn Editions; Reduced edition, 2005

Patterns of Decay

After life by Dr George McGavin

 According to Dr George McGavin Decay is one of the most important forces in nature.  It underpins all Life on Earth.

    Some of patterns(above), which I just capturing of  procesing fruit's mould is not neceserly clear but for me is strong.

Discovery of the Connection

Parallel

The human  brain is the most complex phenomenal in the universe.I lost my glasses and for nearly 12 days (end of September) and couldn't find them. I was looking everywhere in the house, even the bins. I went into the loft room and had forgotten my reason or going up there. I was determined to know why I went up there and decided to try my best to find out. Was I going to be like my neighbor victim of the debilitating loss of brain function, Alzheimer's disease? I was becoming concerned, as I was always forgetting things and was wondering if these wakes up call trying to tell me have Alzheimer's?

It intrigued me how the brain worked and I wanted to know why and how this happens.  I had decided to research dementia so the understand of it would be clear if I might possibly be diagnosed with. I viewed numerous images of MRI scans of the brain when it was being affected by dementia and before it had dementia. It then occurred to me what the brain would look like in the human eye, before and after the effects of dementia. I had found a image, which was a brain sliced in half, put next to and compared to another brain, again sliced in half. I could see the significant differences and it scared me that could be my brain in years to come if I did have dementia.

I decided to occupy my self with something else so I could forget about what could possibly be me as it was frightened.  I decided to make myself food. I was looking for lemon juice and noticed that we have run out. I remembered that I had a Persian substitute to lemon juice made from raw grapes. I had forgotten to put it in the fridge for nearly 2 weeks. I noticed that it had carboxylic acid mould (imaged above) I was disgusted and wanted to empty it out. As I emptied out the jug, the mould that discussed me intrigued me. I put the mould in a safe place to dry. The next morning I went and looked at it.  The carboxylic acid looked liked the gyros ands sulcus of the brain. It also instantly reminded of the brain before and after the effect of Alzheimer's as the mould had separated into various parts and I had notices that it had decreased in size. Just like they brain decreases when it is effected by Alzheimer’s.

How the mould was shaped looked just similar to the structure of the brain. This was my first discovery of the connection of art and science in this semester. 

Life & Death # 6

 Visual art is one of the fields where, according to Bourdieu, culture is used to reproduce the class structure. Like other items in the cultural repertoire, paintings, as major examples of visual art, imply social divisions in how they are engaged with by artists, critics and audiences. I looked at McGuirk’s research of method and interpretation in the visual art from journal. That journal’s article, which concentrate on the theme of analysis within research in the visual art.  The knowledge and involve me to contribution to these knowledge.  In my pervious exhibition I found that too much language and explanation in an exhibition setting could lessen the opportunity for the viewer to consider all of them for practice in my discipline.

(Beyond prejudice: method and interpretation in research in the visual arts, Tom McGuirk, Nottingham Trent University, UK, volume 5 contents)

Network

The real work of our brain goes on in individual cells. Adult brain contains about 100 billion nerve cells or neurons, with branches that connect at more 100 trillion points.  Scientists call at this dense, branching network a “neuron forest”.  Signals travelling through the neuron forest form the basis of memories, thoughts, and feelings neurons are the chief type of cell destroyed by Alzheimer’s Diseases. 

Network

Life & Death # 5

Try to be

(http://stepitup2007.org)

(http://www.nevillegishforddiscovery.com)

Decay In Another Form

Colour and Meaning written by John Gage, this source is very important for my research as it enables me to find ask myself questions such as, is the colour a physiological phenomenon? what is its effects and feelings?  As Gage argues about colour in arts is intended to lay out various factors of intrinsic for the study of colour, from visual arts to colour iconography and its modern interpretation, to view the conditions and also the language of colour analysis itself. This has encouraged me as an artist to think about colours curiosity, because colour in art in intended to lay out various factors intrinsic to the study of colour in visual arts from technological constraints, to theories accessible to artists, to colour iconography and its modern interpretations on the view of conditions and to the language of colour analysis itself.

  I was losing conscience in my hand slowly, starting off with two fingers then spreading to five. I tried to jump over this obstacle and get on with my work while I was waiting to be diagnosed by my neurologist. I found it a struggle using a scanner so I tried to do my work using easier instruments as a new method. I first experimented with ink on photographic paper and canvass. I enjoyed much of this but found it hard, as I was limited to the number of experiments I was allowed to do. I didn't like this fact of this the experiment as when I was using the scanner I had unlimited amounts of try's. When I had experimented with ink and used colours that were known for decay, as I wanted to have experience of this process. I liked the fact that I was in control of the colors; I could use random colors, mix colors, use the colours anywhere on the paper/canvas that I working on. I think that this was good as I could express myself in my art. I found that this problem with my hand has caused me to explore life and death in a more scientific way as I found it very interesting how the human body works and fails.

John Gage, Colour & Culture: Practice & meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

Life coms from Death

                                           

 My hands are not in good position, I am going to loose them because both of them are numb less and my treatment is in process and I’m waiting for my MRI appointment so the doctors will have a more clearer understanding of what is happening to me. At this point I find it very hard to work and type and have to keep on taking breaks, as the pain is too much. But my own work and discovery’s are an inspiration for me to try and carry on working.