Sandy Skoglund

With no rules, principles and the the questioning of reality postmodernism have created installations of madness that combine many materials. These instillation's involve photography, sculpture and design to create these imaginative, striking images. In particular I like how each instillation has depth by creating pin points figures in the middle of the images. The level of energy and movement these instillation's project with the still sculptures and bright colours is significant.

What to do with old clothes, recycle...

 Into beautiful creative pieces of art?







 

 I think these pieces are incredibly inspiring the level of imagination and application of colour, technique and material is stunning in these images. whether it is an correct use of old clothes is arguable but I think they are beautiful. I especially like how the clothes can still be identified as clothes not a odd scrap of material.

For my final pieces I want to progress from creating bangles out of old material and use ties or scarfs to create something new.

Another aspect of recycle clothes which I find interesting is that websites exist where you are paid per weight for your old clothes, your clothes are even collected...That's how easy it has become!


http://www.returntoearn.co.uk

http://www.cashforclothing.co.uk

http://www.recyclenow.com/

This links to a website that pays for your old clothes to be recycled, its interesting that websites are available to recycle clothes per weight, even recycling is becoming more convenient, having your old clothes collected and receiving payment for it.

Bangles

Inspired by Aztec pattern I wanted to create a cluster of bangles that were detailed or dainty individually but once in a set of multiple bangles they stand out and appear bold. I kept to two simple colours and each bangle is different, either braided and wrapped or weaved or wrapped leaving a gap to let the gold bangle shine through. I secured the material with cotton and i am very pleased with these bangles, really feel i have made something out of nothing here.

Photography

Another element of this project is to explore my photography skills, I shall be creative and experiment at taking shots from different angles and aperture to display the accessories.

 These photographs shows aperture well, buy changing the settings you can decide which object you want in focus, this could be the background , foreground or you can pick out a particular object. I shall explore this aspect when capturing the many bracelet's.  

Old made New

I saw this in a small independant shop, as you can see its a recycled beer bottle transformed into a clock. I just thought this was a simple but effective way of creating an unusual object out of what would have been waste.

Patch Work and Patterns

These are patch works quilts from various artists. I like these simply because of the different shapes and patterns that have been created by pieces of material.

This one reminded me of a mood board i created whilst selecting materials for the bangles i made. I am going to make images with different shapes like this patchwork, the natural forms of flowers have simply been made out of shapes. Therefore i think it will be interesting to explore what images i can create out of shapes of different colours and textures of material.

I want to carry on making different items out of weaving and braiding the different materials. Here is a clear example of a bangle that has been weaved out of thin metal. Which i think is very effective, because although overall pattern looks complicated and knotted the process is just repeated weaving of the materials. I want to explore using simple weaving techniques to create interesting designs, i shall experiment by using different colours and thickness of materials to obtain an quirky item.

Helen Chadwick - Georgeously Repulsive

Her work is thought provoking and crazy but her choice in materials means her work in unavoidable. Her work expresses emotions of lust, desire also identity and humanity but one way or another her work obtains a reaction.

She used organic materials such as meat, chocolate, snow,urine and flesh. It the choice in materials that are significant to me because it is her choice in materials that raise questions on the meaning of her pieces not the over all sculpture or outcome but the materials that have been manipulated.

An example of this which was created in the height of post-modernism, is her piece 'The piss flowers'. This was created by Helen Chadwick and her Partner urinating in the snow therefore melting the snow. But why snow is it the relation between hot and cold? Is it about the difference in males and females, Identity? This piece although bizarre defiantly starts some ideas and thoughts.