The first brief of the new module was to take 100 photographs in a week, and have them all printed and cut out ready for the studio session. Not that hard, you might think, but it was more difficult to take 100 photographs than I actually thought. I think I did okay though. 100 exactly!
The subjects were: People, Objects, Places, Text and Textures. I had a
lot of textures, because that's an interest of mine anyway. I love texture.
Anyway, then we were split into groups, me, Will, Gareth and Hanna G. It was a good team.
We split them into piles of each category.
And then tried to work out a way of arranging them with one another's in a pattern that made sense.
We tried to fit all of them on the table space that we had, but clearly that wasn't happening. Hanna and Gareth's were the same size, so we let them have the table, and me and Will took ours to the floor. Which seemed to work out quite well for us.
I really like the way that we laid ours out. It just worked really well, and worked together as well as individually. The themes go, from left to right: Textures (5 columns), People (2 columns), Text (2 columns), Objects (4 columns), and Places (3 columns).
A couple of examples of how other people in the room were working and laying theirs out.
Next, we were given the names from another group, and had to go and rearrange their photographs into some kind of order. We had Dan Boom(e?) and Gavin Drury.
Dan's:
This is how it started. It was kind of hard to categorize. There were a lot of train pictures, and pictures of plants
near a train station, and then some shoes and then Matt (Milner?). Will and I started categorizing from green to not so green, but we kept changing our minds. We ended up doing from the wilderness to civilisation. Or, the beginning and end of Leeds. Ending in Matt.
This is what it looked like by the time that we were done with it. It kept falling off the wall though.
Gavin didn't have any photographs, so we took on the mammoth task of Tom Cummings. Don't ever try to categorize Tom, it's just, really hard.
Looking through his photographs, which were all really random in relation to one another, we struggled to find some way to categorize them. We came up with the idea of from Tom to not Tom, but that proved to be too difficult. We ended up going from crazy colours to dull colours.
It starts out running along the top of the board and around the corner...
And keeps going across the window, and around another corner...
...and onto the
other board, working around other people's work and down the other side and doubling back on itself along the bottom. I think that the way we laid it out even represented Tom. It started off neat, ended...well, you can see how it ended. Later, when we had to write down ten words that coupld possibly represent our work, Tom made the mistake of writing his name on the sheet, and everyone ticked that instead of the actual options. I thought it was pretty Tom.
Back into the other room to see what had been done to my work.
Dan and Gavin had arranged it from rough to smooth, starting with the roughest textures at the top, and the smoothest at the bottom.
The top third containing the rougher textures.
The middle textures.
And the smoother ones, ending in a nice smooth ribbon. This was a good way of categorizing my work, I wouldn't have thought of that. All in all! A wierd but pretty good day.
-HJ x
