Teams Workshop 3

Group Workshops - The outside as materials

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Deashe's response

Shannon's response

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Deashe's response

For this task we were told to go outside, find materials, and make something with them. This was my response:

I collected all of the materials used in this piece (apart from the nails) whilst walking my dogs in one night. I found the block of wood first, and thought that due to it's weight it could be hung in some way, perhaps as a pendulum- this was confirmed when almost immediately after I came across the rubber wire tubing. I was also intrigued by the fact that the block of wood looks like a book, the grooves looking like pages. The long pieces of wood I had seen on previous nights whilst walking my dogs, and was always drawn to them but never enough to pick them up, so I decided to add them to my collection of materials for this piece.

I chose to make a gallows, hanging, style frame from the wood as my practice often focusses around building structures and forms from harsh and imposing materials. I would usually juxtapose the harshness of the material with the fragility of the shape that I moulded it into however, the block of wood seemed quite delicate and I wanted to force it into a situation that put it at odds with its own nature. At the same time, the wood of the frame does look as if it is weathered; this, along with the seemingly unceasing drop of the 'rope', creates a sense of precariousness.

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Shannon's response

The outside as materials workshop was interesting as most of my outcomes came from spear of the moment experiments paired with a collaboration with my younger sibling.

My First Response:

Garden Rubbings with Pastels.

I went out into my back garden and took several rubbings of different surfaces. Including brick, slab, decking, fencing and public footpath. I collaged all the rubbings together creating a colourful explosion of my garden. As my practice rarely consists of colour I asked my younger brother to get involved and assist me on which colours to use. We had a discussion of colour, for example, "Pick a colour that reminds you of a brick" resulting him in choosing the colour red. This rubbing is A3.

My Second Response:

I also experimented with water, a broom and natural sunlight while we had some sun. Creating lines and marks using the bristles of a broom and the fluidity of water. I didn't want to use any man made materials such as paint as I wanted to make a piece of work entirely out if what was available to me at the time.

Here is a close up of the marks I made: