Evaluating my Practice- Experience During Sampling
The theme of games proved a challenge for me at first. I worried that I would work literally, and explore it in a narrow way. I decided I wanted to work abstractly, and believed drawing from sound data whilst people were playing games would be interesting. This allowed a lot of personal interpretation. My drawings became less literal, and more abstract. This was a way of working I really enjoyed.
Artist Junko Oki inspired a meditative way of working through being consumed by a theme. Before, I’d struggled to really mirror my personal interpretations of recordings. Adopting Oki’s mind set, I became freer with drawing and sampling, and less focused on how I want outcomes to look.
As this was a new way of working, I looked at how artists tackle similar approaches and abstract concepts. Creating an artist research book helped inspire ways of working and thinking. This really helped drive my project. As it was separate from my sketchbook, I wasn’t fearful of mirroring people’s work too closely, and risking moving away from my own personal style. This research approach worked well for me, and is something I want to carry on in future projects.
As my theme was so abstract, and tackled both board games and sports games, I believed establishing two contrasting colour schemes was important to my work. I believe I used these two colour schemes successfully within both my sketchbook work and sampling.
When creating samples I wanted to capture my thoughts of games. I realised longer recordings provided more scope for imagination. I enjoyed playing with different techniques and materials within sampling, mirroring the mixed-media way I enjoy working in. With more time I would have wanted to explore more alternative materials. I believe these would provide even more successful and interesting outcomes.
Interpreting the games theme differently has allowed a new, enjoyable way of working. Though in the future I want to refine my techniques, I believe I’ve been able to reflect my visual thoughts on games, and hopefully make people consider what games would look like when played by them
Artist Junko Oki inspired a meditative way of working through being consumed by a theme. Before, I’d struggled to really mirror my personal interpretations of recordings. Adopting Oki’s mind set, I became freer with drawing and sampling, and less focused on how I want outcomes to look.
As this was a new way of working, I looked at how artists tackle similar approaches and abstract concepts. Creating an artist research book helped inspire ways of working and thinking. This really helped drive my project. As it was separate from my sketchbook, I wasn’t fearful of mirroring people’s work too closely, and risking moving away from my own personal style. This research approach worked well for me, and is something I want to carry on in future projects.
As my theme was so abstract, and tackled both board games and sports games, I believed establishing two contrasting colour schemes was important to my work. I believe I used these two colour schemes successfully within both my sketchbook work and sampling.
When creating samples I wanted to capture my thoughts of games. I realised longer recordings provided more scope for imagination. I enjoyed playing with different techniques and materials within sampling, mirroring the mixed-media way I enjoy working in. With more time I would have wanted to explore more alternative materials. I believe these would provide even more successful and interesting outcomes.
Interpreting the games theme differently has allowed a new, enjoyable way of working. Though in the future I want to refine my techniques, I believe I’ve been able to reflect my visual thoughts on games, and hopefully make people consider what games would look like when played by them
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