Found objects, a silver case that held a lone BBQ fork. Some of my other found objects have been aluminium cans, so I have been quite obsessed with the shapes and the way they’ve been crushed into all different dimensions. Then I continued to paint them with some lovely colours just to experiment and see what came out. I this is working towards a series of Assemblages the overarching themetheme I’m not sure about yet.

So I thought of complete opposite in regards to the silver case, I lined it with some red leather and flowery summery material, then I wanted to keep the essence of the container because it had BBQ equipment in it. So I placed the cans in a display /case fashion.

So it’s kind of like the idea of a picnic and the aftermath of how barbecues or picnics sometimes turnout. A remnant or fossil all relic of the past, the colour on the cans could resemble the party, they could also resemble the fact that so much stuff gets graffitied once it’s thrown away.

this artists is based in New Zealand I couldn’t find anything in regards to her identifying as an artist she seems to be more of a hobbyist. Maybe you can decide

https://grist.org/living/these-artists-turn-ocean-trash-into-really-classy-art/amp/

aurora robson

statement

The majority of the work I’ve been doing over the past decade has been centered around exploring plastic debris as a viable art material. We think of plastic as disposable when it is precisely the opposite, so I extract it from its problematic destructive fate and utilize its potential to become a source for enjoyable reflection. It is a process of rescuing, de-contextualizing and romancing. Developing more appropriate, robust and integrated methods for managing our residue is essential at this time. I see creative stewardship as a future positive way of art making that provides elements of creative problem solving and present day relevance to any studio practice. ” (Robson 2019)

https://www.aurorarobson.com/the-jungle

(c) Aurora Robson 2005-2019. All Rights Reserved.

So because we’re doing a lot of household and collected items I am really intrigued with the idea of shape at the moment and seeing geometrical shapes within things

Some examples of this would be aluminium cans that may have been chopped up with lawn mowers and or crushed and running away in a drain or a stream they make some fantastic shapes here are some pictures of some that I have painted and I’ve also got some that I’ve left but I was thinking of it maybe a series for one of the assemblages I don’t know why but I just think they look really great with the shapes.

Same thing different material

So still experimenting with shapes I collected some clothes washing material containers and I melted one of them down and tried to change the shape into something more interesting and then I painted it I’m not sure what I’m doing with it but I’m experimenting.

The second one I cut open and it actually looks like wings but then I’ve drilled holes because I thought of maybe connecting some ribbon or doing something to give it a little bit more life I’m saying that putting the two of them together even though I worked on them separately and it’s separate times they actually don’t look so bad one looks like a body any other one looks like wings what do I use this concept of wings and make the start of my wings Cava 311 so it hasn’t been all in vein because it might actually work quite well please see below.

But wait! still the same theme another material…

this was my original one that I started to collect it was a piece of paper from shoe box and was in this fantastic brown paper and the shapes were just beautiful so I’ve had it on the back of my door and on Friday I took some spray paint to it with a bunch of other post packaging materials the colours are good the shapes a good some of the textures look great but I’m not sure what I’m doing with them.

I don’t know whether to add them to to the mixture of found objects colour plastics and Wood so then that way I have different materials so if I was to pain up the tennis balls I got have plastics and round shapes with plastic coloured objects with paper coloured shapes and wooden shapes oh that would be quite a collection I would probably make four out of it at least.

Or do I separate them keep them in their categories rather than mix them all together I’m really stuck on this but that’s what this journals for I guess.

This poll is things I can’t categorise into colour and I can’t categorise into text and I couldn’t not pick them up because they were so unusual or so interesting one of my boxes I think he’s going to be part of an oddities box so maybe these items will be of use.

Be the 🌈

so I’m collecting a lot of colour and this week I’ve been adding to my collections what I’m finding is that I’m getting things that are a bit bigger so then in the future I can cut into them or break them apart rather than you know a bottle cap here and her straw there now I’m finding games and toys and lots of other stuff so my house or / room is very small I’m feeling very claustrophobic but it’s not for long. I just hope the landlord doesn’t come because the moment I’m seeing like one of those crazy cat lady is without cats the collectible kind!

So with all of this colour most of it’s plastic but I did also find a container of wooden blocks with lots of colours so I’m thinking of making a rainbow because there’s quite a rainbow themed when I’m walking dogs at the moment at in people’s windows and on chalked on the road and everywhere so there’s also teddy bear so I’m thinking maybe I might make it teddy bear but do it in rainbow colours I don’t know I just feel like I don’t want to be working with colour just for the sake of working with colour I want to do something different otherwise it’s just turning into that thing I hate which is craft not art.

Saturday and Sunday consisted of great endeavours however I ended up making one a sandwich and then the following day I ended up sewing my plastic doll.

So I’ve gone through some of my things as directed and decided to use my paint palette as part of the material for my plastic doll some of the paints just looked amazing so I hope that I can bring it to fruition. I’m going to look into using dolls hands and feet but for now it took me a day to so the body parts and this weekend I’m going to attempt to attach it altogether and that’s going to go into my lime green dish rack. if I can put it into place then I know what to add and take away but I kind of like the idea of using the dolls hands and feet because they’re solid the filling is going to be the plastic rubbish that I’ve been collecting. we also have a lot of bubble wrap so I don’t know whether or what to do with that but I think it might come in handy the only bummer is is that once you cut it deflates so I have to use it as a whole piece I never do that it might cover up the doll.

Assemblage

This was a beautiful drawer found on the side of the road, it’s hard to find a clean the krait right size the right weight and this one was perfect.

It was actually hard to capture the handle and the drawer and the assemblage, especially the lovely bit of chalk from the maker of the drawer.

I did my shots are on my Canon so I can’t post any photos but this is the back, to slice collage from magazines and I collected things like apples forbidden fruit, mummified archaeological digs and things that are rare or extinction to coincide with my mummified pantry items.

I’m slowly gathering found objects I’m having moments of clarity and then I’m also having moments of complete panic because I have so many ideas and not sure which ones to run with. So I’m using this blog to try and figure out weather putting it into a articulate form and platform might help.

Vessels/Containers

So far I have a lime green dishwashing rack a mirror, shoe boxes fruit boxes cutlery set a really old Stanley books and a plastic container and many other things I could make as frames draw which I made another one on the weekend it’s just knowing where to stop what to do it’s interesting that because I don’t have a superclear perspective EG Skechers to work off I’m finding that it’s good and one way that bad another.

My ideas are floating from rainbow teddy bears to plastic dolls to paper dolls to coloured rubbish two tennis ball art 2 found objects museum style displays to mummified pantry food it’s all very mishmosh.

I am finding that I’m seeing a lot of rainbows and teddy bears in windows of houses while I’m walking dog so that’s why I thought of a rainbow teddy bear.

I’m finding lots of tennis balls and now I’m actually interested in order the shapes because a lot of them are chewed and shredded because of the dogs so if I paint them example below in a whole bunch of different colours might actually be nice as an artwork…

Spent the morning researching artists, however I did go down a YouTube rabbit hole, I think its because I likr to be active and listen at the same time.

Any way I ended finding and learning some quick tips that I hope to use in the future.

-If doing a photo shop collage, rather than use the lasso tool, use the geometric one for a rougher cut

-to blend joins if doing old school use a water colour pencil and highlighters to blend(which I will also try in photoshop

What I already knew but good to note because every single video said the same thing…EXPERIMENT and DRAW MATERIALS FROM EVERYWHERE

This was my favourtie artist

I watched a couple of this artist videos on collage one of them from 2017 and this is from 2020 so it’s really interesting watching her progression in a span of an hour when it’s taken her several years you can definitely say that she’s been unpacking the idea of collage going from magazines to now material.

I selected this work because I think this one would be good in regards to my material body that I am going to work on I like the idea of the pieces together.