Publication Project

For this project we had to choose a place in the following topics:

Education

Novelty 

Power

Manufacture and Sustainability

I chose Manufacture and Sustainability in response, where we discussed different campaigns and the different tactics used by them to call out people's attention.

Having said this, this was where our to do essay came to have its basis on, having the option to choose between two question to choose from.

Within the Manufacture and Sustainability we were split into groups of 5, according to which topic people felt more involved with.

We Started by brain storming, going through various ideas like making a scale that would say hypothetically how much time we would have left on earth comparing it to how the years go up when things are taken out of the balance, a reenactment of the investigatory powers bill campaign to show how it should have had more attention called to it then what it had, making sculptures that would replicate and include inside of them the most found type of litter in landfills, and the one we followed about reusing plastic found on the streets to which we gave the name of "Do you see me now?"

Do you see me now?

The objective of this idea was to bring back to people the garbage found on the street (which is mostly plastic) in a different form. A social experiment was made where the tiles were put back into the scenes from where the plastic litter originated before our interference, to see what people's reactions would be. Would they take it? Would they ignore it? Would it blend in the scene?

The tiles were created by joining plastic with the different colours that we organised by what would look better when melted together, put into a mould, heated up with a heat gun and then pressed the lid that follows the mould structure.

We explored plastic as a medium and a resource showing a way that plastic can be reused. In the exhibition the tiles were organised in a dynamic way so that it would be more interactive then a structured brick wall. 

 

Editorials

We were given two articles, one about Nate Turner and the other on Gentrification.

Nat Turner

For Nat Turner's editorial I made a digital collage involving an unidentified character giving away Nat Turner s skull.

By using the icons of Elepnhat and Castle being the Elephant hypnotised and only having eyes for the money while the castle crumbles away symbolising the affordable housing being neglected by the person who is supposed to be protecting them 

Links:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/opinion/nat-turners-skull-and-my-students-purse-of-skin.html?_r=0

Library Project

On my library project I chose to make a library entry about London's Myths. A book that would be open for everyone in a library to handle and add their own myths and illustrations of the stories in it.

If the book were to be hypothetically placed in a library it would go through whoever would want to participate, this would involve a lot of handling of the book by different age groups, being that not everyone handles a book in the same way. So, to avoid damage, or more to incentive caring when handling, I made the book look visually fragile on purpose by giving an old look to it.

The library entry explains itself and comes with two myths surrounding two objects, The London Stone and The Battersea Shield.

Research:

  

The Battersea Shield:

It was discovered at the bottom of the river ames, probably near the Chelsea Suspension Bridge, along with other tools and coins which may have been o ered to the river at the time of Roman invasion to ask the gods for assistance.

Being actually a metal cover that would attach to a wooden shield, it mainly made of bronze with a length of 777 millimetres, 357 millimetres in width, 3400 grammes and decorated with 27 studs of opaque red enamel (durable coating made of melted and fused glass powder).

e item can be found at the British Museum while It’s replica is being exhibited at the London Museum. 

  

The London Stone

A very important landmark for London even tho it’s not very noticed or recognised by most.

As it’s name implies, it’s a chunk of oolitic limestone, a stone that can be dated back to, the Roman period where it served as a ‘milliarium’, the central milestone from which distances in the Roman province of Britain were measured and where past kings have sworn their oaths upon.

The myth bound to this stone made its first appearance in an article dating back to 1862, said by John Clark formerly Senior Curator, which referred to an ancient saying – ‘So long as the Stone of Brutus is safe, so long will London flourish’. As the stone as followed London through the Great Fire of 1666 and the bombing in the Second World War, and like London, it survived.

It’s location hasn’t always been the same, moving from the church of St Swithin, to the Guildhall Museum before 111 Cannon Street (named Candlewick Street in the past) was made which is where it’s next home was to be and safely exposed in the middle of the street before the year 1770 outside what is now the Rail Station.

The London Stone safely stands today at the London Museum awaiting it’s return to Cannon Street where it is to be installed in the new version of the office building in 111 Cannon street where it will have a more prominent standing, opposed to it’s most recent location in the same street and building.