Cobbler Cobbler,
Mend my shoe.
Get it done by
Half past two!
Half past two
Is much too late.
Get it done by
Half past eight!
Inspired by collages done by Hannah Hoch, I decided to piece different body parts of men from different pictures and manipulated to form a totally new picture of a cobbler mending a shoe. The concept for this piece is to create a new image using the collage technique.
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away
Inspired by the opening scene of a television series ‘Orphan Black‘, where the play of mirror image (balance and symmetry) is used. If the image is divided in half, there is a form of symmetry. The concept is to create a creepy approach to this poem by using the 3 symbols mentioned in the poem: Little Miss Muffet, spiders, curds & whey.
Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down,
And broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.
The concept of this piece is to experiment the position of pattern and symmetry while keeping to the line “Jack fell down and broke his crown”. Jack is seen holding on to the broken pieces of the crown from all sides. Many Jacks are placed in a circle creates a form of pattern and shape.
Old Macdonald had a farm
E I E I O
And on that farm he had a cow,
E I E I O.
With a moo moo here,
And a moo moo there.
Here a moo moo,
There a moo moo,
Everywhere a moo moo.
Old Macdonald had a farm,
E I E I O.
Inspired also by Hannah Hoch, I replaced the animal’s head with a man’s head, and the man’s head with a cow’s head. I created a concept of a parallel world, where Old Macdonald is an animal who had a farm, where the animals were humans. The two animals at the left and right side of the image are symmetric to create a balance.
