In Project 1b, I worked on three parts, namely: ‘Fire’, ‘Perish’ and ‘Ice’ in relation to the poem, ‘Fire and Ice’ by Robert Frost. I embarked on this project by thinking of the cause-effect relationship that the two elements have with emotions and visual evidences. For the process, I made use of painting in an abstract way to bring out the emotions I have for each element. I chose to present my final work digitally by incorporating my first hand images with a second hand image of an eye through digital manipulation.
My Idea in translating texts in the poem into images:
- Eye as a medium to convey the poem because we see the world through our eyes; our eyes are windows into the world we see
- Use of circular/ round form to represent a sphere, the form of a globe, like Earth, and to represent a continuous line, unity, balance, a shape that links the three images together
‘Fire’:
- fiery, hot tempered, passionate, bright, destructive (Emotions)
- ashes, disintegration, light, melt things, sparks, steam, smoothen, friction, burn (Visual evidences)
Medium:
- Charcoal powder – consist of carbon and ash, produced by the heating of wood or other substances in the absence of oxygen,
- Acrylic paint (crimson red and lemon yellow) – warm and bright colours,
- Impasto gel (matt) – Easy to manipulate with to create thick textures resembling ground
‘Perish’:
- The word that links/ strikes a harmony between the two elements in the poem in the middle line (5th line)
- Represents emptiness, a void, to be gone/ away
- My choice of a neutral hue to show that the word is not specific to any of the elements
- Suggests my unwillingness to have any of the two elements in sight; that I deny both fire and ice to be in my sight
I used only the iris from the second hand image in my final work because I liked the abstract quality of the iris when I zoom into it.
My idea was mainly inspired by Marc Quinn’s Eye series, depicting an eye in each edition like the one shown in ‘Eye of history II’.
‘Ice’:
- Cold, icy, aloof, dark, alone, disharmony (Emotions)
- Cracks, cold, melts into water/ gas (dry ice), reflective, burn (Visual evidences)
Medium:
- Tracing paper – for its inherent quality of translucency to represent ice,
- Painting lines with strings – to create thin uneven & irregular lines, which resembles cracks in ice that tells of the tension in something cold; the emotional strain between relationships,
- String – an object that appear to be frozen in time, stuck onto the paper,
- Gloss medium & varnish – layered onto strings and tracing paper. To serve as an adhesive for them to be stuck onto the paper and to provide shine as a reflective surface similar to that of ice
Final Presentation for Project 1b:
My reflection: I thought that fire and ice are elements that should never go together. In my struggle to create a set of definition for each element, I realised the two elements could actually go together. They are both destructive, or at least to me. I have been burnt by a fog machine once so I could empathize with the definition of the words, especially that of ‘burn’.
Citation:
- “صور مقربة لبوبوة العين احدث صور احدث الصور – اجمل الصور × صور جميلة HD.” اجمل الصور × صور جميلة HD. September 25, 2014. Accessed September 14, 2015. http://photos-images.net/%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%AB_%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%AB_%D8%A7%D9%84/
- Accessed September 14, 2015. http://www.thedranggallery.com/index.php/artists/marc-quinn