Dissolvable Film

This is a short animation of my sample slowing being dissolved. We used a spray with warm water to dissolve the piece gradually. I think the piece relates to the research we did about Gunther von Hagens body world. I think the piece once dissolved almost looks like intestines. I love the way once zoomed in you can't really tell what it is.

Dissolving Film day

From looking at artist such as Sam Taylor wood which we all though reflect slow is beautiful, we though we should play around with dissolvable fabric as it could look similar to something slowly decaying. Everyone rented out cameras, tripods and different lighting so we could film at different angles and everyone was very much involved. Josie created some tester samples on the embroidery machine and see what they looked like when we dissolved them and how effective they were film wise. Grace created a hand embroidery piece consisting of French knot and other embroidery techniques which had similarities to what the inside of the body would look like which linked well to our main theme in our project looking at hidden elements (Manchester) inside a jacket.  

We looked at dissolving things on the actual body. An example shown below of emma's arm and a dissolvable sample Josie did. As the fabric around it starts to dissolve it looks every similar to veins but on the outside of the body. Similar to Gunther Von Hagens work with veins. Looks like the veins growing/moving on the outside of the arm. Which could be linked to ageing.. slowly as you get older you veins get more extenuated. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta42sIpcvS0

For some reason the dissolving arm film is not come up on my youtube so here is the link above 

Dissolvable Fabric

These are the images from our filming session this week. This was my dissolvable fabric piece from the last post and we filmed lots of our samples slowing dissolving into warm water. We want to put some of the films we have taken of the dissolvable pieces into our final film.

Dissovable Fabric

Just thought I'd post a few images of my dissolvable fabric piece before we dissolve it in our filming session on Thursday! I have used mainly dyed threads so I am hoping the colour may seep through onto the garment. 

WORKING WITH WAX AND DYE.

Today i decided it would be a nice idea to experiment with both my wax pot and dye. I really like the effect as it adds texture to my samples, very much like the brick work and it's rough texture. As wax flakes away, i also thought this links into old bricks as they deteriorate.

TRACING BACK OUR STEPS.

Today, myself, Josie, Sophie and Lamia decided to retrace our steps to where we began. We ventured back to hotspur house where we first discovered the brick work that is the main palette source for our samples. We took some more photos and recorded footage of the brick work which also involved our samples. Here are some images that we took:

Jean Paul Gaultier

We have been using a lot of projections and so i wanted to find out other artists who were doing something simiuliar. Jean Paul Gaultier used projections in one of his catwalk shows. He projected  faces onto plastic mannequins, it achieved a very strange, scary feel to the mannequins.