The language of process.

Street clock - Manchester City Centre
Fluid Forms and John Briscella
2008
acrylic

Fluid forms are a company that allow customers to design their own unique furniture. The customer can enter their own postcode, or a postcode of their choice and zoom in and out until they are happy with the final placement. The data is then sent to a laser cutter, which cuts out the clock face from a sheet of acrylic or wood. 

I think this is hugely relevant to my own work. During the Sampling unit I will be learning how to operate the laser cutter, and it's definitely something I would like to use within my work. I also believe it's relevant as the sampling project is based on mapping.

I really like this piece as it's very accurate and the lines and shapes reflect something personal to each person, as it's of their home town, or somewhere they enjoy visiting. 
The clock is very linear, and made up of lines and curves. 

Jee Young Lee

JeeYoung Lee has turned her limiting studio space into her imagination, where the possiblties are endless. Instead of finding a new location, or using digital processes to trick the viewer, she converts her small space in Seoul, measuring 3.6m, 4.1m, 2.4m into the most elaborate sets imaginable, just to take one photograph.

JeeYoung Lee won the Sovereign Art Prize in 2012, and she will be opening her first European exhibition at Opiom Gallery in Opio, France. The exhibition will be names Stage of Mind, and is starting February 7, 2014.

I feel this artist really reflects the mixed media subject, however digital processes like illustrator, laser cutting, and the 3D printer will be involved, there are no limitations in where I can take the sampling brief.

Manchester Art Gallery

I spent nearly an hour and a half in the Manchester Art Gallery, and particularly in the Grayson and Perry exhibition. I thought his work was very apt for the brief of mapping and the collection of data. The tapestries that he has created mark an event or moment in time that he has captured adequately. The amount of time taken to design and produce these tapestries in tremendously impressive. 

Firstly he begins my mapping the image that he has witnessed, and trying to portray the story or a way of life.

 The final installations are very large in scale, which gives a great impact on the viewer. I spent over an hour looking at this exhibition, as each strand of thread represented a hidden message, feeling or opinion. I was very inspired by his work. 

Sampling project

After reading the brief, I began to think about the words 'mapping' and 'data', and the thought of taking a journet somewhere in Manchester. After doing some research into current events, I was keen to visit The Manchester Art Gallery, to see the Grayson Perry exhibition. 

I began by mapping my route to the Manchester Art Gallery. Firstly, I live in Davenport, so I have to get a train in to the centre, Manchester Piccadilly station. I used google maps and photographed the street signs and jotted the street names down.