Siru She

My Reflection:

The project began with a stroll through the streets of London. When I looked at the streets of London with a mind to find colour, everything looked different. I would see things that I wouldn’t normally notice walking down the street. When I found a new way of looking at the world, I started to paint the most obvious things I saw, and because I was concentrating on colour, I hardly painted the outer lines of the objects. But I find this approach sometimes unsatisfactory, for example when the colour palette is so uniform that there are no other colours or shapes to break up the image, the painting becomes boring. When it comes to making images boring, I basically don’t use mixed media, which also limits the expression of the image and doesn’t facilitate the transition from image to fabric.

I enjoyed the second task, creating patterns. This task I did all by computer. I create patterns by digitally editing, reconstructing some paintings, deconstructing some paintings, or simply repeating the image several times.

One of the most interesting and quick ways to show a lot of ideas is to deconstruct the original painting. While reconstructing the image, I can also enlarge some of the more interesting parts, or enlarge and reduce some of the content and repeat it.

n both assignments, my images were very homogeneous, not bold and experimental in terms of composition or colour palette. There is still a lot of room for improvement in this area, but I definitely learnt a lot from these two assignments. In future research I will have a different way of looking at things and a particular style of recording inspiration.