For this project we were set the task of creating three photographic objects. At first I found it quite difficult as I was conflicted on what paths to take, at first I researched artists such as Aldo Tolino and found myself intrigued by his pieces but once we did a workshop attempting origami, I realised that doing pieces based around origami wasn’t the best idea.
One part I feel I was most fond of was the research, I throughly enjoyed looking at various different artists and seeing their progress as well as discovering different techniques they use, this helped me greatly on deciding what I wished to do for my final piece allowing me to open up multiple options to chose from.
Personally, I feel as though I could have done more experimentations. But I think that was all to do with how conflicted I was with the choices, I was finding it extremely difficult to come to a final decision and I believe I could have accomplished it much sooner if I would have attempted more experimentations.
Another artist I discovered was Szymon Roginski, during the beginning I wanted to use his techniques for my final piece or at least incorporate them into it. However, I did try making some cubes out of photos I had taken and didn’t think I would be able to create three whole pieces based around it. Which is when I began researching other artists such as Alma Haser.
After I looked at her pieces I became inspired to try something similar but I knew I would have found it difficult since I had already struggled with the cubes and the origami.
I believe my final piece in the end came out much better than I had originally planned, although the images did not come out perfectly I am still happy with the overall piece. I did encounter quite a few issues at the beginning and I was becoming quite frustrated and stressed overall because I was running out of time, but I am still happy with what I did accomplish. I could have turned the images into stickers in order to get them onto the rubik’s cubes however I didn’t have the time nor the resources to do so.
If I could do it all again, I would most definitely try more experimentations and push myself to try out new techniques in order to gain new skills that could later prove quite useful.
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