Idea

I did this page of thumbnail sketches which I really like. I really want to find a way to make something like this.

I like the idea of having the letter E entangled in some type of material between to flat pieces of another material which I think would give it better shape and structure.

I think wire would be a good material to entangle the E in and possibly perspex for the top and the bottom. To see if this would work i made a small prototype using cheaper materials as perspex is quiet expensive.

I used acetate punched holes in it and then used black wire.

I like how this looks so now I am going to push the idea further and increase the scale.

Time to start Entangling

moving away from drawing on paper I began to physically entangle things.

Entangling cut out paper letter 'E's

Entangling string and wire

Entangling red and black wire. I think this looks the best out of the things I have entangled so far.

Time for a Change

So Erosion just wasn't really working out, I found myself coming to a stop and lacking in new ideas so it was back to the drawing board and time to start brainstorming again. I came up with another word: Entangle which I hope I will have more success with. Entangle means to involve (someone) in difficulties or complicated circumstances, which I think sums up the State of the Nation today.

This is my brainstorm and some pages of thumbnail sketches I did to get some of my ideas onto paper.

I'll take it

Rooting through skips is something I've got used to since starting art college because you'll never know what little treasures you could find. I found these cardboard box 'things' in the recycling and photographed them in different ways to create the letter E, they also relate to my word because of the way they look almost like they are eroding.

Off the page

I decided to experiment with my word by doing some 3D work. I found some blocks of wood in the materials store in college and thought I could work with them somehow, this is what I did. I tried to make the  e look like it had been eroded off

Erosion

I began to experiment with the word erosion which means the gradual destruction or diminution of something. I started off with some 2D work on paper and exploring some typefaces to find one which could possibly work well to portray the word erosion.

Time to get stuck in..

So after the first day of Viscom I'm really excited and cant wait to get to work. We were given our first two briefs, the first one is going to be an ongoing brief until we finish up for summer and that is we have to keep a visual journal/sketchbook, this i'm quite excited about.
The second one is a 3 week brief, we were each given a letter from the alphabet and using that letter we then have to design letterform under the theme 'State of the Nation'.
My letter is 'E' and I began to brainstorm words beginning with 'e' keeping the theme 'state of the nation' in mind.

Some words that came to mind:

Economy, Educate, Education, Employment, Earn, Earnings, Europe, Economic, Exchange, Endless, Empty, Equality, Expense, Exceed, Enemy, Extra, Erase, Exit, Enough, Effort, Endeavor, Erode, Emphasize, Experience, Eejits, Eliminate, Effect, Euro.

These are just some of the words I came up with. Out of the words I brainstormed I thought Erode sounded like a good word, because the country is breaking apart and deteriorating.

Got Viscom!!

So after doing 2 weeks each of fashion design, printmaking and visual communications it was finally time to decide what I wanted to study for the next few years at LSAD, the competition was tough and there was only a certain amount of spaces in each discipline so you can imagine how happy I was when I saw my name on the list saying I got my first choice ... Viscom

Drypoint

First I decided to do a dry point of one of my images because I think it contained interesting shapes I could work with.

Here is one of the first prints I produced! I am quite happy with the outcome but I think there is something missing so I might try combining it next with a monoprint

To capture the sense of movement in urban areas I took some more photos around my town.
I took them in the car