This artwork by Jim Dine on the left is a lithography on paper. The print shows a pliers in the middle of the page which is a part of his ‘Ten winter tools’ collection.

I chose this work because I liked the black and white colour scheme with precise image of the object with dark tones around it.

This work also reminds my childhood memories as the artist also used those tools from his memory as his family owned a hardware store.

I think I could experiment using his style of printmaking or etching.

The print on the right shows a series of tools and a hand print in the right end.

I thought this was interesting for me as the objects are in upright and aligned in a way that made me to think of a skyline of skyscrapers.

I also found that after a series of tools (non-biological) came a hand (biological) and that the hand’s height is same as the pliers on the other end creating sense of balance.

From this work, I learned how alignment and its direction can determine what comes to my mind.

Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972) created works using glassed boxes and put in objects and background images which have reasons and meanings behind his influences.

In the work on the left was influenced by an Italian opera singer.

I could see the two balls on a rod at the top and an astronomical chart for the background which suggest planets orbiting around the sun which shows contemporariness at that time.

I liked the composition of symmetry of the circles in the background and perfect alignment of cups which are all still but movement demonstrated from the two balls on top.

The work on the right is also a model made of wooden box with objects made out of paper inside.

The work consists of a hand drawn style paper bird, number of small objects laid below the bird and on the bottom with many clocks tied together in a form of a grid/patterns in the background but left blank behind the bird and the bottom right section.

When I saw the work, I thought the box could represent as the bird’s cage and time suggest that the artist wants the bird to be there time after time or the bird representing something or someone else precious for him.

With those two works, I learned the concept of making works displayed in a limited, enclosed space like glassed wooden boxes and the hidden meanings that they could hold.

The collection of golden threads lit up in gold is displayed in a gallery named after her in Brazil.

I liked this installation because I thought this was quite architectural in a way that the strings run straight from floor to ceiling with areas that crossover and that they are coloured together with lighting in attractive colour creating different highlights and gradients in blackout.

I could learn and experiment with lighting and what effects they could make.

The work on the right is black and white ink drawing that I liked because the mathematical use of shapes including its straight lines and 90-degree angles that’s an unfinished rectangle, how curves meet and change its direction creating spatial aspects within them with thin lines occupying the space.

I learned how a sense of space can be created by a simple use of shapes within a limited boundary.

Rachel Whiteread creates architectural sculptures out of resin and concrete. I liked her works because they are accurate but yet simple and represents objects that are easy to understand.

I also found her mix use of material interesting and its huge sizing as well.

I liked the all-white colouring looks so pure and modern. I am yet to understand why she created the other staircase upside down which cannot be used.

Work on the right, Secondhand (2004) - Edition of 400 by Rachel Whiteread made from Stereolithograph of laser sintered white nylon with miniature scale of h11 x d10 x w16cm

This white miniature models were created based on furniture inside a vintage dolls house. The furniture was first arranged by Whiteread according to arrangements used by furniture stores.

I was fascinated the detailed expression of parts within each furniture, their arrangement and sizing.

I chose to research Buckminster Fuller because I found his geometric shapes and designs interesting and thought I could incorporate their elements to my Marquette making for this project.

His designs involved many circular shapes, domes, straight lines that formed geometric structures that make enough strength to make this gigantic structure to come alive.

The Geodesic Dome (left) gave me a sense of almost unreal, Sci-fi idea of building.

His use of materials also intrigued me because on the right, he had used clear film and paper to make these free-standing structures that almost look like metals.

I liked the simplicity of this Marquette and their mathematical relationship as to how the structure can be formed and stood.

Inspired from when looking at the side of the given object structurally. Created from cardboard and wooden sticks.

Was inspired from when looking the face of the object as it made me imagine a tunnel or a path. Created with cardboard, tooth picks, black cut out sponge and broader wooden sticks.

Was inspired from the similar reasoning to the whirlwind above, spaceship was related to transportation so I decided to create a car out of red clay with a found glass base.

All marquette relates to bus stop design ideas. Silver materials are found and bent aluminium sheets and others are cardboard, found black plastic structure and foam board. Also included the works from sculpture workshop, created with clay, metal wire and modroc.

Ever is Over All by Pipilotti Rist is a 4:07 minute long video with sound debuted back in 1997 as the artist’s first large scale installations.

The film starts off with a woman in a blue dress holding a long stem with a thorn flower at the top skipping down the pavement. The angle looking at her from the side. The sound was a melody that begins only with the actress’s humming and later, combines with an instrumental beat and an instrument replaces her humming, which does come back in again towards the end.

In the larger-scale space, the video was projected onto two walls that meet at 90 degrees angle. One side showing the woman and the other showing close-up views of the thorn plants in a field that she is holding simultaneously.

When the angle changes from the side view of her to facing her, the whole street reveals and back of a parked estate reveals, the angle changes again and back to facing her, still in a skipping manner. Then, as a red hatchback appeared, this whole peaceful and calm slow motion is abrupted with her violent act where she smashed the hatchback’s window with the thorn plant that she was holding. After doing another, a policewoman approaches where at that moment I thought that she was going to get arrested. Instead, the policewoman saluted her in a respecting manner giving an impression of ‘Yeah, you carry on with that’ where I was quite surprised when watching this for the first time. The woman carried on breaking more parked cars’ windows without any sense of hesitance or doubt.

Rist’s film seems to have links to female empowerment and related stereotypes expressed as a woman shattering all the aspects and comments from the society stranding her ever so proudly and boldly to break free. After realising this, all the small details come together and make sense: saluting policewoman and men passers without a word to the woman.

The film’s title also makes the point made above clear as it stands: ‘Ever is Over All’ which I interpreted as ‘I am done with this’ from woman’s point of view. The idea of employing a feminine object (flower) as a weapon for a joyful and innocent looking character to perform such actions also seems to be an attraction.

Although I did not appreciate the idea of vandalising cars (as a petrolhead), I would like to show my sincere respect to Rist for creating such a brave themed film which we can still put into reality today.

The imitation of the Grenfell tower made of foam board, wooden joints and sticks with a slogan. The banner suggests that the amount of money saved by choosing the cheaper building materials is not equal to the lives lost by this tragedy.

Site visit to the Hanger hill park, I planned my shelter/pavilion to sit within this park and there already was an existing shelter without seats so I wanted to create a distinctive looking shelter with seats.

The final design drawing of the shelter. Another drawing from different perspective currently unavailable.