1st Stop motion video

                                             Video experiment using samples. Loved doing this!

Group work photos from footprint video

 Before

 After

The footprints left behind looked as though they had been drawn with all the detail of the bottom of the foot. They were beautiful and inspired our work and ideas for further film.

Putting the paper used onto the wall. This excercise created lots of drawings done together as a group and was a good way for us to bond as a group.

Mould Artist Heikki Leis Article

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4278682/Artist-Heikki-Leis-makes-landscapes-from-mouldy-fruit-and-veg.html

This article is about making mould beautiful and displaying it in the raw form of what created it. There is very similar mould which we managed to grow in the micro-biology department which links in well to the project, and the display still on the gone off food adds a disgust but added interest!

Slime Mould Farming Article

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/20/slime-mould-smallest-farmers

I love the idea of mould having a mind of it's own. Of course it is a living think, but I love the idea of it having a life and a 'job' almost to feed itself.

This could influence the way we show mould moving on the body.

Seeing the Mould Cultures

So a week on, we have gone back and looked at the mould cultures we collected from different places and photographed them, and seen them under microscopes.

 This one is the most different because it is like a fuzz across the agar instead of a 3D shape and it links in witht the textures I used previously. Also the colour is beautiful.

 These two plates bring in new colous witht the dark green and the peach orange, and mustard yellow. These could be a good contrast and something to set off the powdery blues.

 Using the mould as a filter where you can see Manchester behind. This could be a way of linking the city with the project.

 We can now start using the colours we have from tht mould to inform our colour palettes, thankfully my colours already linked in with the moulds, especially the one above. There so many otherexciting colours we can add though! I love this luid green just oozing out of te top of this culture.

These are going to encourage me to start working more 3D. I don't want to just recreate the mould I can see though, so I am planning on drawing very frrly with the shape, texture and colour as inspiration. I want to create small scale on a big scale, really detailed. We are planning to draw collaboratively from the images on friday but I would like to start some of my own before hand.

I need to star making a colour palette with thread and gouache!

Monday 23rd Group Meeting

Picking up the cam-corder so that we can use it for the filming on Thursday. Julie stressed how we were not working so closely as a grup as we should be ding so we are going to meet up on Thursday and Friday to film, draw and make together and photograph, film and draw our results. I think this will be really useful for us to bond more as a group and to really produce a large body of work that we can then go away over the weekend and work on seperately.  We had two new ideas aswell... The idea of adding a clinical and sterile aspect of the microbiology department by using a lot more white, then adding in colour through embellisments and the leaking of paints; and the idea of surgical tubes and sending black ink through them to show disease flowing through the body and then adding holes to the tubes to have the inks dripping onto the body aswell. From these we could add the made samples growing from the leaks.

Over all it was a successful tutorial, apart from missing one person. But I felt we are coming up with ideas more, so if we work more as a group we can do this more often and get really strong ideas.

Embroidering onto willow

I now moved the sewing samples onto willow to make the willow more alive. The spreading of the mould across the wood creates moement and looks as though it is grwing out of and trapping the willow structure inside. It is feeding on it. I love the combination of something so natrual wuth a sort of simulated natural embroidery.

I believe more natural materials will be used in the future and I want my work at the moment to reflect that. In the way that China fully encompasses their natural materials such as bamboo, I feel it is important for us to the same, and things like willow will be perfect.