Ministry of Colour

Currently working for the ministry of colour in the independent state of Camberwell/Peckham. Thinking about how to design the colour scheme of our state. To research this we will be distributing colouring in books of camberwell/ Peckham in Peckham square this Friday in the hope that the occupants of the state will come up with mew colour scheme ideas!

This gives me an idea for this project that it could be about redesigning the area...Using the area and characters in the area as inspiration for how it could be redesigned....Similarly to how Grayson Perry designed A House for Essex:

http://www.dezeen.com/2014/08/07/house-for-essex-grayson-perry-fat-alain-de-botton-living-architecture-first-photographs/

Easter Break

Some sketching I did over the easter break. Didn't have time for anything too crazy as have mostly been working on my essay but have been spending some time walking around London and in parks as I think about the upcoming independent state project.

These two are after seeing Sonia Delaunay at Tate Modern and feeling inspired as I'm planning on designing patterns for IPS project next year:

Thinking also about voting....I actually don't believe in party politics really because how can you agree with every single policy of a party...I would prefer it if we all voted on every issue that was being changed...That way maybe when we voted we would just follow our hearts and there wouldn't be so much tactical bullshit. Just an idea...

Tense

Ted Talks Independent state

Two links to talks I watched for research for next project:

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_how_equal_do_we_want_the_world_to_be_you_d_be_surprised

https://www.ted.com/talks/sally_kohn_let_s_try_emotional_correctness

Thinking about the next project: independent state. Watched these ted talks to try to get me to think about how to run a society....

Window Sill

Green party poster

nneeaow

This project was called editions. We had to make an edition of something; anything. At the beginning of the project I was kind of stuck and just drew everything/anything (see visual diary post) then I took a walk and sat down in the park started watching the planes in the sky and it seemed to calm me down. Planes were one of the city noises that have bothered me since moving to London so I thought channeling them into something beautiful might help me come to terms with them being a part of my everyday life. I started trying to draw them quickly as they flew across the sky, started documenting how many planes i'd see in a day. My favourite thing about drawing the planes was that I could feel their movement. I realised that I could see planes wherever I was by just looking up and spotting them became fun: on the bus, on the street, while swimming, through my bedroom window. And if I included small details of the world below the planes in my drawings; like the plants and figurines on my window sill, they started to look like little worlds and strange lands the planes might travel through. I thought about what I wanted to say with this project. And thought about how there is a lot of documentation of looking down from a plane like instagraming plane wings but not too much looking up at a plane...And I guess this project for my was a fun way to change that. 

My ideas came together in an edition of 6 flipbooks showing planes flying through strange lands.

I hand carved stamps to stamp each page with:

My business cards:

A practice book:

Stamping on cards:

More drawings and experiments:

More practice books:

One of the final books before putting the cover on:

Some research (another book about looking up):

Experimenting drawing cactuses in the barbican...helping to design the cactus stamps that I made for the books:

The finished books: