The use of paper.

Since my video I have been experimenting with the idea of crumbled old buidlings in contrast to tall standing modern buildings using mostly paper and cardboard. I like the linear qualities of the modern architecture so I have tried to represent this by using pleating, which creates small but effective shadows also.
The swatches I made with glue, latex, cocoa powder, nuts, oats, raisons, couscous, plaster cast, leaves, stones and many more random materials represent the old, decaying buildings. I like the contrast in colour between the old and new buildings.
I also played around with the projector in college, creating shadows on my paper buildings.

A rough animation.

This is just a short video of buildings made from paper. I didnt get to finish it because my camera had ran out of battery and by the time it had charged the lighting had changed, but you get the idea. The two crumbling down represent old georgian buildings which are being rebuilt as modern buildings.

Paper and shadows.

I made a few paper boxes to represent buildings and I arranged them in various ways on my kitchen table. It was only after I took the first photo that I noticed the shadow from the blinds. I took a few more photos to show these shadows and different tones of light. You may have noticed that 2 boxes were a different colour to the other white ones. I stained them using teabags and salt to create an older looking box to represent the Georgian buildings. The white boxes represent the modern buildings. I'm working towards my animation piece which I hope to upload soon. T.T.F.N.

Paper buildings.

After asking myself the question, how will these beautiful georgian buildings look in 10 years without care? and after being inspired by Johnny Kelly i drew a couple of animation storyboards with possibilities of the destruction of the buildings. I'm going to try and make my own animation using buildings made from paper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNLW9PMU1PA

work work work

After my feedback, which was quite dissapointing i decided to set myself a brief each week in order to get some proper work and research done. So, this week my brief was to look at the typography around the city. With this research i hope to incorporate it into my interest for the georgian houses in Limerick. Wish me luck :)

Photos Of Project (UE)#2

Moulds...

I went to visit the resurected georgian house in Limerick. It was a very beautiful house with loads of inspiration for my project. I also went to the Limerick Museum which surprised me, i discovered Limerick Lace. I have always been a fan of lace and its nice to know that it was very popular in the 1800s in Limerick. I have made 3 different sized moulds of the crown windows from silicone and have used the bigest one to create a wax cast and tomorrow i will use it to create a gelco ( i think thats what its called) cast. I have enjoyed using these different techniques because they are new to me. I have also made 3 plaster casts from my moulds. Using a variety of materials to work with is very interesting, as some work well and others dont. I plan to keep using all sorts of materials and experiment with the pattern of the window crown.