Melted series

I conducted two sessions, using a toaster maker, to melt, actually slow melting via, an oven would have created a more desirable melted mould, but due to OH&S, I didn’t investigate it further.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled* #2, 2020, Image, Found objects, melted.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled* # 3, 2020, Image, Found object, melted.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled* #4, 2020, Image, Found object, melted.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled* #1, 2020, Image, Found objects, melted.

Straw series

The straws were photographed on two occasions one within a studio setting a perspex box, and the second using the sunlight, outdoors.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled #1,* 2020, Image, found objects, frozen water.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled #*2, 2020, Image, found objects, frozen water.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled #*3, 2020, Image, found objects, straws, frozen water.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled #*4, 2020, Image, found objects, straws, frozen water.

Assemblages Misc Series

At the start of the semester I collected found objects for the making of curiosity and assemblages. These are the works that came out of them before I turned my concentrations to plastic series.

*Kylie Naylor, Untitled #1, 2020, Image, found objects.*

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled #*2, 2020, Image, found objects.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled #*3, 2020, Image, found objects.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled* #4, 2020, Image, found objects.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled #*5, 2020, Image, found objects.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled* #10, stars 2020, Image, found objects.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled #*6, 2020, Image, found objects.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled #*7, 2020, Image, found objects, glitter, water.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled* #8, 2020, Image, found objects.

Kylie Naylor, *Untitled* #9, 2020, Image, found objects.

*Kylie Naylor, Little boy legacy 2020, Image, found objects.*

L series

Using objects that start with the letter L, this series a photo shoots allowed me to surrender to the process, as keeping things still was not going to be an option.

I examples of attempting composition, the L in blue, a lot of attempts for composition ended up being surrendered to the process.

Another example of surrendering to the process submerging ice block in water, using the perspex box and mirror for second photo shoot

Kylie Naylor L *Series #1*, 2020, Image, found objects, water.

Photographing with a high ISO and using the flash resulted in some i’m is it images depicting deep ocean view with reflections of glitter.

Kylie Naylor L *Series #*2, 2020, Image, found objects, water.

Kylie Naylor L *Series #*3, 2020, Image, found objects, water.

I wanted to make the lids look like they were deep beneath the water so I had to block all of the light out, the other experiment was attempting to melt them together to create an abstract effect. I was not excited by these photos.

Did experiments melting and submerging with no light

Working with the flash and working with some light

Kylie Naylor, *Lid series #1,* 2020, Image, found objects, submerged and melted.

Kylie Naylor, *Lid series #*2, 2020, Image, found objects, submerged and melted.

Ball series 2020

Started with Perspex container borrowed from The Bower in Newtown…

Setting up the ball series using, I coloured hair foam,water movement place in the balls in a Perspex box sitting over Mirror

Photographing the balls from above just experimenting with the phone acting as pollution and trying to work with some natural light, flash and playing with settings on cameras and smart phone.

Trying to figure out the composition taking the balls as a group was very busy through the process I found it the next photos were the ones that were giving off the energy that I wanted.

Kylie Naylor, *Ball series #*7, 2020, Image, found objects and coloured hair foam, submerged.

Kylie Naylor, *Ball series #*2, 2020, Image, found objects and coloured hair foam, submerged.

Kylie Naylor, *Ball series #*1, 2020, Image, found objects and coloured hair foam, submerged.

Kylie Naylor, *Ball series #*4, 2020, Image, found objects and coloured hair foam, submerged.

Kylie Naylor, *Ball series #*6, 2020, Image, found objects and coloured hair foam, submerged.

Kylie Naylor, *Ball series #*5, 2020, Image, found objects and coloured hair foam, submerged.

PROCESS

The bottle caps I didn’t want any light because I wanted to get the impression that they were what the fish were seeing. Currently in the ocean the amount of plastic goes down kilometres in depth which is killing a lot of the micro species because it doesn’t get the sunlight.

One of the ice blocks which contains crushed objects from the destruction series

Found objects were taken to be squashed, The space was harsh and I ended up using a flash for a lot of this work and a mirror to really try and capture a stark reality to the waste problem

One of the melted works using mirrors to try and capture the continuation of a major problem going on and on and on

One of the ice blocks series, trying to get this particular ice block out was a problem. Some of the shapes and textures were fantastic during the photo shoot I continued and what we’re doing to this planet, to think about icebergs and all of the plastic stuck inside them

This was one of the first few ice blocks I use the Perspex box and mirrors problems that I came up with were the condensation on the box and reflection this one was everything starting with L

Some of the problems I came up with whilst photographing the ice blocks. Sometimes there would be an edge that I really loved, the flash, and getting a really nice smooth surface so you weren’t reminded that it came out of a container

This was one of the submerged series taking the advice from the photography department to attempt to use white paper to surround the works to stop the reflection During this photo shoot, I thought about sports and dogs and my walks in the morning, this was a constant reminder of what I was seeing on the waterline the glitter was added because there’s so much glitter in the ocean currently that it’s changing satellite photos. this particular glitter is from a found object it was actually glitter moose so it also looks like pollution, The label even states that it’s holographic hair foam!

Also during the squash series, it didn’t allow me to have control over the environment, harsh bright sun ended up influencing the process of these photos which I on reflection was ok because as a child I would always go to the tip with my father and it reminded me of this bright sunlight beaming down on all the rubbish.

I purchased this little toaster for the melting process when it arrived it was very tiny so I didn’t extend on the melting series too much also because of the fumes involved in helping plastic I wasn’t keen on, if I had more time I would really like to melt in different ways rather than Cook but and have to know when to stop…

Beast of a machine, so poingnant to impact of plastic on planet!

Photographing ice blocks outdoors this was the second photo shoot trying a different technique not using a studio set, just using light from behind

Attempting to counter weight the perspex box with ice and water above the mirror for photos, to get the appearance of submerged ice blocks

Found on the side of the road emptied it and used it as a assemblage with a small narrative

Ended up doing three photo shoots with straws, this was from the tray under the freezer before I purchased a bigger freezer it was a very skinny ice block, which ended up breaking and falling apart.

Using some of the original objects one of my last photo shoots with the melting series, it’s been an interesting process and throughout this is the first time I feel like I’ve been able to make the objects ugly. Which I really liked because I’m trying to get across that it’s all shiny a new, they come in bright colours that entice everyone, but at the end of the day it’s rubbish and it’s really bad to the environment.

Start of an idea 3rd of May 2020

On collecting front found items I started to sort and come up with ideas for some of the assemblages this was one of the first ideas it consisted of the shape of the skipping rope creating it into a snail and then having the discarded pink plastic party little girl stuff to follow, much like a snail trail. Then from that I went down the path of creating or thinking about the legacy of children and the legacy of what we’re doing with what we’re buying and using so I extended and designed a little boy legacy with a lot of blue materials and made it a shape of a gun. This feels like it’s been the longest semester in history because of all of the drama that has been dragged along with it so I may be repeating myself but I just wanted to start with a description, phase, series of photo shoots to submit. From the multiple of items collected I started to come to the realisation that I had to figure out how to connect it all and assemble these items although I collected A lot of stuff nature, plastic, metal, what really did stand out was that I was attracted to bright colours and plastic so from that you can see below in this picture that majority of it is plastic and from the Pictures in the past blogs.

Ideas around assembling the assemblages

This is where changes started to happen with the work because I came to the realisation that I didn’t want to use more plastic ideas formed from previous blogs mention around freezing, squashing, melting, submerging, and assembling.

The next series of posts will be series of photo shoots and works they won’t make sense they are not connected the only thing that connects them is the fact that they are found objects and a waste for these works I want the viewer to take into consideration how wasteful we are and what we are doing to the planet OR I want them to develop their own narrative with in the several series of works.