Friday, 13 November 2015

Processes and Experiments using Soldiers

A process and experiment that I have come to love doing, and really like the effectiveness of the outcome it burning, and pairing this technique with using wire, hessian and other textures such as book pages and cling film.







I intertwine these textures between the wire to create a highly textured piece of work that can represent war wounds, battle, conflict and the environment after a battle. To me they represent the scarred ground after a large bloody battle, with the burning of textures to emphasise the decay and destruction.


I feel that these experiments are all very successful and each are very unique to each other.
To improve I think I should use new textures, work on new scales and try experimenting with using new colours.


In this photo here, I chose to add dirt and mud to my piece for an extra layer of texture, this was to relate to the fields of war where it's a bog.
I decided to do this to incorporate my artists together, and to show the skills of using textures that I have and have developed on whilst studying my ART 3 Coursework project.

In this experiment I've used elements of Robert Rauschenberg and Stephen J Shanabrook with the use of the toy soldiers.