YEAR 2 FMP

ACQUA ALTA A VENEZIA - VENICE HIGHWATER

My project titled ‘Acqua Alta A Venezia : Venice Highwater’ Addresses the devastating impacts that climate crisis causes for the Venetian people and the iconic Venetian architecture. Whilst researching the paradoxical contrast of its beauty, mystery and my fascination with Venice.

Here I used water colour, gold leaf and black and white film taken in Venice.

Originally designed as a wooden chair for Ikea by Virgil Abloh, the Alaska chair is a paradoxical commentary on the effects of our everyday lives and mass-consumption habits on the global rising of sea levels and climate crisis. This work is in spired by the ‘Acqua Alta’ an Italian term used to describe regular floods in Venice caused by high tides and warm winds.

The chair is partly submerged by the rising flood waters, with a doorstep Wedge symbolically representing the short-term makeshift solutions we have for tackling climate crisis, yet by casting the work in bronze, a material intended to last, the work reflects on how environmental catastrophe is a tough, long-term problem that is not easily fixed by simple solutions.

The nest 2 pages are articles from the Italian newspaper in December when Venice was hit with the worst flood since 1966, with high tides water reaching 1.84 metres above sea level.

I printed these onto acetate and inserted these so they look creative over the 2 pages underneath.

A continuation from the recent research.

I used acrylic paint and bubble wrapping material to create the effect of mass consumption packaging.

Article research from the Italian newspaper with my own photography in Venice.

Newspaper research, my own photography and artist response using watercolours and inks to exhibition visit of Italian artist Piranesi’s etchings of Venetian architecture.

Analogue photography of Venetian architecture shot by me.

The Blue Print process has been widely used for over a century for the reproduction of specification drawings used In architecture and construction.

I was inspired by this and decided to create my own blue prints using my photography images I shot in Venice.

Blue print and White-Gold leaf.

Introducing Vogue Italia’s editorial that I have been influenced by for my fashion responses and architecture of Venice.

Layers, Memories and Narratives.

Instant photography : polaroid's shot by me in Venice as a response.

Using bronze gold leaf, acrylic paint to create a response.

Inspired by Andy Warhols’ exhibition visit I created my own prints of Venetian architecture with bold colours and using Vogue ed to connect with fashion.

Taking inspiration from Nick Knight’s otherworldly, innovative and inspiring fashion shoots I have created digital manipulations in response to his style.

For my final photoshoot I have created digitally manipulated portraits inspired by the paradoxical allure of Venice, and the close up images pull you into the models imagination with layers and memories.

I have created effects of water as a layer which refers to the acqua alta.

For my final outcome I have chosen to create my own fashion story for Love Magazine.

Front cover and Typography mood boards.