STUDIO PRACTICE

exhorting an artwork

All right, so, what I'm thinking, for this project, is that I will blow up my image of my skin-banana thing, right up, so that you can't make out what it is, just pencil and such, then, I think that it would be both interesting and fitting, to paint what I see (so a large square of unrecognizable pencil marks) , with mashed banana, as a ground, and then the pencil marks in crushed bug pulp. to retain the demented, zombie, rotten type feel that the image has, but enlarging the experience, I wonder how that would smell, could be fun, If it doesn't smell rotten or revolting enough I may need to find stuff to make it so. it needs to be a very erotic painting, not a good, pleasant erotic, but a strong, odorous, tongue crawly, stomach churning one. a work that you don't want to be around almost.

i didnt go with this idea. i went a shot a whole load of footage from around Witt, and put it into a video, I chose close ups of everyday things, i.e air conditioners, print tables, mechanicle things, which, when blowen up, completly change your perspective of them, for the audio to this peice, i stretched out a recording of my bands song "spiders" into a half hour peice of slow sound, (original length 5 minutes) i would still like to do my banana in the future for a personal thing. here is a snippet as the full file is too large.

project 1

in this group i worked alongside, Harry, TJ and Logan, originally we were givin the task to occupy space, so we came up with a few ideas, our favorite being making a wall of nylon and wool from celing to floor, forcing people to walk thru it, tricking people, however due to the short time we had to build it in, and due to the cost of materials, we simplified the idea, we were going to use hula hoops and string the nylon thru them, and have them hanging, but we caught a snag in that one too, being that we couldnt get any, (we were gonna swipe some from schools) and that they are circular, which would have been horrible to work with, after much plans and discussion, eventually we got the idea to use bamboo and string the shit thru windows made of it. we decided in the end to make it chaotic by throwing the roll of nylon thru the hanging bamboo to one another. we basicaly ran idea after idea without really jotting any thing down, so ive only got photos of our final construction

it was purposfully chaotic, and it was a real joy to work with.

my groups finished "Bamboo web"

project 2

so here we are, this is project 2, Introduce, Via a Deranged Process, a presence referring to nature or the natural world, without representing it. and in my little posse I had Dando and Jay to work with, and originally we sat down and drafted up a whole storm of ideas, but were finding it difficult to work out quite what this means, we had ideas including, making a machine of some sort that could "create" nature, something "anti - nature" evolution of computers, use the elements somehow, we then realized that this task meant " bring in nature, without physically bringing in nature" so some of the best were things like taking a photo of a city-scape and removing the buildings, or not turn up to class, physically taking "nature" out of the building. however after much more discussion we decided to shoot a porn using mannequins, originally going to be life sized, however there were problems with this, so we went with scale model sized scenes. this was a kool idea we thought, its taking nature right out of it, and yet referring to it with the mannequins fucking. and its a pretty deranged process.

Jay looked up and got printed diagrams of sex positions to use as a checksheet.

i also looked em up

and Jay brought in the Mannequins, which one had a pole up its ass so we had to figure out how to pull it out.

and then Dando, the crafty lil' thing sculpted very detailed genitalia from modeling clay as i was playing with the mannequins positions

thinking how dope they were, we then went to shoot them, originally in the planns, we were gonna have red velvet or something sinalar, however decided to focas on just the mannequins themselves and their little act of passion, and so just sat them on a plynth. these are the working photos. shot in majority by Dando, but for a position i also took some. Jay and Dando we all helped to set them up. it was a fun experience.

this next position is my photographs.

back to Dando

we decided to use one with a support to get standing positions too

after the shoot we then went into the mac lab and slightly edited the best pics in Adobe Photoshop, i.e cropping out lights and things that got into the shot.

after which, we decided on what sort of paper and size we would go for, we chose A3, this was due to how we want to display the final project, which is, at this stage, have a wall of our porn with the two actors standing on a plynth in front of.

we decided we needed more close ups, as they seemed the strongest images, all images taken by Dando.

except these two, which were taken by Jay

Janick taking photo of Dando taking photo of sex

next we decided on our final images from our arsenal, and decided on the set up, we went for a galery type set up cos it was very unnatural (as a galery is really) and even more unnatural that it is essentially unnatural porn, which isnt natural to be showen like this. or some shit. first 8 by Janick, Rest by Dando

The rest by Dandle

MAJOR PROJECT

M E A T C A R O U S E L

so i had this fucking notion, i felt i have to do this, i wanted to throw myself out there and do something that i would not usually do, but still invoke and give off the same feelings, thought, reaction ect, as any of my other disturbing, disgusting images.

a meat carousel. its gonna be a rusty carousel made of a saw blade and steel, with barbed wire hanging down dragging around different meats, i.e sausage, cows tounge, brain, old meat, ect, covered in grease so that the meats are making a grease circle, with cut outs of my penis boobs mind monster riding the wire like dancing girls and on top, sculpted out of mashed up sausage meat, will be a sculpture of my dude sitting down with real animal teeth, spinning slowly with the carousel. it will be displayed on a cool antiuqueish table, and the room will be dark, with the projector shining a large image of my man over top of it, also thru my bass amp, very loudly, will be playing my track "mind monsters" as the carousel is spinning, and theres gonna be the stench of meat, blood grease, everything, and i will allow no ventalation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHVS-bzHew

also, i hav decided a meat sculpture riding on top is what this peice needs.

these are my preliminary drawings and brainstorms

I asked around for some hectic saw blades to use as the roof and/or base and thru some contacts i found a guy who had just cleaned out the "saw doctor" saw mill place in bell block, who had the perfect ones!!!

i had a little looksie online as to "How to build a miniture carousel"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfEQOvEJ2uM but its shit. so im building it differently. more details soon, i worked with my father to help me figure out what i need, since he has expertise in weilding, construction, electronics and engineering ect, i thought, if i allready have someone to ask about stuff, it will save me a lot of frustration. this does not mean im handing anything over tho, i am in complete control and will be constructing everything.

sorting out the functionality, what i will need, how the top is going to work, since i realized you cannot drill into saw blades, being they are hardened steel. and running thru any imediate troubles that may occur, like that. cos now i am wondering how to attatch the barbed wire, possibly weld some nuts onto it, and thred the ends of the wire thru them.

heres an example of how they will sit, i feel i do need to focas on the look of this peice, the look is gonna play a MASSIVE part in how succsesful the work is to invoke the terror i want. like this, it could definatly take shape of the Gigar look, could even resemble that of lovecraft and his stories, especially fan art ive seen of his mythos.

update
i have been going over things, and it looks as tho a motor may be a lil bit hard to use as the spinning function, due to speed and stuff, but, i may have found, after asking around, some old turn tables, and if i do decide on experimenting with these, they could bring something kool and retro to this peice, im really thinking about how i can make this peice bring as much disturbedness and awkwardness on a psychological level as possible, the same sorta stuff my drawings do, thats my notion, as described earlier, and, as my drawings have been described as gigar on a bad acid trip, i want to make this peice very Gigarian. very alien, very twisted. and i think using something like a turn table would be really a lot more effective than a hidden away motor.

update
I HAVE SOME MATERIALS via the scrap metal guy. also, i have sorted out where the weilding will take place, so i can begin on constructing the top.

i made a scale model of how it may look, this model is non-functional however. i made the top meat creature out of gluestick glue, and red paint. i did not have enough to make the most important dragging peices tho.

i went for a walk along the very end of back beach, the other end, not the one where everyone goes with the sand dune hill thing. took the dogs. i took 187 photos, while there, i was mainly focasing on capturing the rock formations and shit in the cliffs, mainly trying to find a good place to take band photographs, but while there, i noticed that some of the formations almost looked like the mussels and tendons ect, like biceps and stuff, just the way the lines curve and connect, really good inspiration for my art, nothing to direct with this project, but still relevant i think.

Look at how this little moss puddle looks like a lake, faeries could live here, or lil goblins, fuckin kool

these rock formations are just really kool, the shapes they make, almost like a skeleton battlefeild, a night time pic would be sick!

this is the sorta shit i was refering to about the mussels and biceps nd junk,

i mean, this just looks dead as fuck

even the way the trickles of water make shapes and patterns is sick, could be veins or intricate designs of souls and such, like my drawing of the skull made from souls and bodies...

perfect places for a band shoot at night or day

the water vein effect really shows thru here

more mussels, alien carvings, whatever floats ya boat...

i kept these really generic, paratutu/chimney pictures cos of the sharpness of the sand....

LOOK AT THIS, i dont know what life this is, but its really fragile and brittle. however, it almost looks like the pods of an alien civilization, straight from gigars sketchbook.

UPdate -

tried the record player holding the weight of my saw blades,

didnt work, scavenged a wiper motor from junk man, working well, gonna work well one hopes

for display i am goin to have the work running, whilst thru my bass amp, i will have the song i made "mind monsters" , loudly. the room will be dark with no light, except this image shining on it via projector.

update-
i have been giving thought as to what it will be displayed on, i was originaly intending on a lovecraftian, or gigarian looking table, or something antique, then i thought, "what about a panel beaters fold out trestle thing, i dont kno what theyre called

but then it developed further and i thought, ill combine the 2 feilds, machinery, and gigarin type si-fi dark stuff, and thought, a rusty old iron drum would look epic, so, i am going to get my hands on one and display my creation upon it

I HAVE BUILT THE MEAT MAN SKELETON

anyway, heres the photos from construction

first I had to sand down the main shaft to give it the best chance of moving freely

i also bolted the top together for a rough idea of how it would look

and loosly placed the wheel nuts where they would be holding the hanging wire

heres some tools

here is the photos of first day construction, firstly I built the base and main shaft that everything else is relying on, i had to make a brace to hold it, just so happened it was perfect size for the hole

I decided to not use this motor due to its functionality and its weird ass shape

first time welding yo

making the spinning part now. and figuring out the head

welding the bolts on thatll hold the wire.

and day one complete, i got most of it done, all that is missing is motor.

BY MEAR FUCKING COINCIDENCE THERE ARE THE PERFECT BARRELS AT THIS PANEL BEATING SHOP FOR DISPLAYING THIS FUCKER ON. AND THEY ARE USING THEM AS RUBBISH BINS. DEFFINATLY STEALING ONE OF THESE.

2nd day welding. motor time, instead of a window wiper motor, we have a window regulator motor this time, much better function, much better size and shape. its 12V however so I cannot wall plug it without a transformer.

to make a gear that will connect with the bike gear (to be showen shortly, that will act as the spinning function bit for the whole thing) I am welding bolts together to be connected to the motor, as showen shortly.

heres the bike gear. its the easyest and best thing to use for this project, plus i had one on my bike, and i never ride it.

welding to any small motor is difficult, you CANNOT get it too hot or itll fuck everything right the fuck up. so its in water, as to not overheat it.

allrighty, heres the bolt/gear thing i made earlier attached to the motor, after welding and grinding the bolts i cut them down evenly to make the gear.

attaching bike gear to carousel base, since its allumnium u cannot let this overheat either for the same reason.

last day, day 3, connecting motor to base.

last minute descision was to add spikes to the thing. fuck yea,

MECHANICS ARE DONE.

this whole thing truly has evolved in and out of itself, i remember the basic idea i had of it, and now it has taken me places i am so glad i went in!!!

next up, meat. here is the meat i have gotten from the butchers