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Project 2 - Final Outcome, Project 2 - Gallery

Textures of Abandonment│Final

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The kind of paper was difficult. I got 2 kinds of paper, 1 heavily textured one, which is wayyyy warmer. You can’t really see the texture here but its pretty in real life!!

I think you can see the textures under light better:

Another one is off-white, not much of a texture but you can see the grains. Is it recycled paper?? idk I’m not a paper pro. Are they even called grains? Just know there are dots.

Here they are side by side:

I choose the one on the right as it is more yellow and textured(since my project was about textures). I also liked that the yellow gave a very old and aging feel(which also matched Dakota crescent’s circumstances).

So yes, here are the rest of my pages: 

That’s all for my zine! I enjoyed this journey very much. Overall I think my zine turned out like a nice ageing notebook and I’m very satisfied with that.

 

My Work, Project 2 - Research

Dakota Crescent: Textures of Abandonment│Research

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When I chose Dakota as my location to do research on I had no clue where Dakota was, and I don’t even know what’s so special about it. So after googling and asking around, I found out about Dakota Crescent.

Dakota Crescent is located between Dakota and Mountbatten MRT station. On the map, its renamed Dakota Close, since there’s a new ‘Dakota Crescent'(most of the residents relocated to the new area).

I went to Dakota between 2-5 pm. I snapped some pictures of the abandoned buildings(there’s more on my slides): https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/rosf0002/dakota-crescent-research/

First thing I realised was that there were lots of peeling paints and rusting metal and trash and how smelly the place was. So I decided to focus on the textures that had naturally occured due to abandonment.

They make nice abstract pictures so I decided to go with it. I thought of re-making my own textures for my zine through various methods, eg. Lino-cut printing, mark making so this was all the reference I got:

 

I also thought of putting some words/phrases in my zine that show ‘abandonment’.