melayna simister

Research for my material collage painting.

I enjoy the aesthetic balance of this collage by Melayna Simister, it is a very "busy" collage painting, by layers of different colours and shapes of cardboard paper, which creates a image of texture, but well balanced. It has very strong sculptural aesthetic balance.

The empty box

Just another random idea.

A empty box (life size) with a beautiful door (outside), the idea of people fall in love with the outside beauty, and no one really cares about the inside, even it is empty.

Material collage painting

I have been doing research and developing ideas for my "text painting" project, to work with the idea of letting people to read the painting in the content of the visual analysis of a painting that I have "painted" in my mind.

The content of my "text painting" is getting larger and larger, and in my opinion it would be hard to maintain the viewer's concentration and ask them to finish reading the painting, and with the idea and concept I have developed, it would be more powerful and effective to use visual image within the content.

I started to look for a simpler content which creates more effective impact on the viewer.

After the lecture on conceptual art, I found conceptual art is the best way to present this idea of mine, I want to play with the words, shapes, colours, for the purpose of "the idea of art is not the object or the content, but the meaning, the idea. I want to play with the viewer's mind when they looking at my collage painting, I want to make them confuse about " what they see is not what it means". At the same time, I want to keep the sculptural aesthetic balance in this collage.

Text painting idea

I remembered one of the great Dutch painter from the 14 century, Hieronymus Bosch. I was very impressed by his painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights", when this painting came out in the 14 century, it could of be a shock with the sexual issue it has towards human, animals, demons, and the nature. And i was inspired, it almost presented the freedom of sexuality, like today's society, I don't have many words to say towards this subject matter, what really attracted me was the busyness in the painting, the every individual story has been put together into a large theme, and people could read the painting by looking into it, and discover all the little themes and figures.

For my text painting, I started looking into conceptual art, with simple words, affective words, but it wouldn't satisfy me, as I am a painter. So i decided to take this seriously, use serious words to describe this imaginary painting in my mind, and write it out onto the canvas.

Poster

Scene 2 (The killing)

Fade in (cycle)

In the bush, quite, C is walking alone (camera, back)

(camera, front) T suddenly shows up behind C, with musk, holding a knife. Fast walks up behind C.

(camera, side) C looks suspicious, (camera, C as the first person) looking back half way, seeing T's feet.

(camera, back) C start walking faster and start running. (camera, T as the first person) holding the knife up, start chasing C.

(camera, back) C runs into a dead end, turns around, sees T, shocked. "What are you doing?! What do you want?!"

(camera, C as the first person) sees T holding a knife, C screams, slowly sitting down.

(camera) zoom in to C's face, shocked. (camera) zoom in to T's belt (step by step, shocking sound/music)

C shouts out "It's you!!"

(camera, C as the first person) T stabbing down, looking insane. C doggies away, start running away (towards the white house)

Under the white house, C is hiding, looking around, scared.

(foot step noise, walking up stairs)

(camera, C as the first person) scared, keeps looking around, T suddenly shows up.

(camera, T as the first person) grabs C's trough, throws C down on the ground.

(camera, C as the first person) T walks up to C, holding a knife.

(camera, T as the first person) C screams, covers her face with her hand.

T stabbing, looking psycho.

Blood blushing everywhere, and drop down the screen. (more effect apply)

Scene 2 end.

Take 1

Tom and I took our first shoot today, because we were not well organized, so we haven't got much done, but it was a good trial, to experience the locations, the acting expressions, the movements, which could prove our practice in the future. We did a few test run, and I need to improve the script, and my acting skills. And Tom did a pretty good job, all he needs is a musk. I'm going to put the scripts up when I finish them, and hopefully our next take will be heaps better.

The night of living dead

One of the film I have researched, which I found a sense of humor, maybe because it is a 1960's film, looking back with today's technological advance, the vocal, sound and acting were very disadvantaged (not sure if is the right word for this), in which creates a "dark humor" (to me).

The good old horror film

Project: Black and White horror film

Location: the QUT rain forest

Style: 50's film

Story: First person killing and rolling the camera (detail in discussion)

Nekromantix music video

Sculpture project

I sketched out the composition of a person cuddling another from the back, and the shape of the body was very interesting, instead of drawing out the whole figure, I simplified the figures to the shapes and the curves of their torso, and linked them together to a abstract form, then I added up some graphic pattens to balance the compositions that I have placed the figures.

This is a draft sketch.

Stencil

A stencil is a template used to draw or paint identical letters, numbers, symbols, shapes, or patterns every time it is used. Stencil technique in visual art is also referred to as pochoir. Stencils are formed by removing sections from template material in the form of text or an image. This creates what is essentially a physical negative. The template can then be used to create impressions of the stenciled image, by applying pigment on the surface of the template and through the removed sections, leaving a reproduction of the stencil on the underlying surface. Aerosol or painting stencils must remain contiguous after the image is removed, in order for the template to remain functional. Sections of the remaining template which are isolated inside removed parts of the image are called islands. All islands must be connected to other parts of the template with bridges, or additional sections of narrow template material which are not removed.

Mel Bochner

Contempt, 2005

oil and acrylic on canvas / 60 x 80 inches

If The Color Changes (#6), 1998

oil and acrylic on canvas / 36 x 48 inches

If The Color Changes (#5), 1998

oil on canvas / 36 x 48 inches

Mel Bochner

Conceptual artist

I found his text paintings are very effective, I am interested in his uses texts as the subject matter in his painting, simply playing with the colours and the composition of the texts.

Comparing with my text painting idea, his works are simpler and more effective to the viewer.

Prints

I want to make a series of screen print by using photo images, the content would be the patten created by everyday environment, by using vertical and horizontal compositions, place the patten onto the paper, but keeping a large amount of white space on the paper, simple and effective.

"The Painting"

This is a text "painting" idea, which I am going to use text to describe the content of a imaginary/fantasy painting, and "painting" (write) it onto a canvas.

My purpose is to associate the text with the viewer's vision, by using their imagination, every individual would "see" a different image. I want to explore how much impact of the text could effect visual imagining.

For example: When you see "blue", everyone would have different vision of blue, light blue, dark blue and etc.

cow cow cow

The idea is to build a double fence in a circle, and put some cows in it, facing the same direction, the space only allow them to walk through individually, so they would walk and follow each other, as a cycle. The play is will they follow the environment system? or they will go out of control? And what if two of them have been placed facing each other? Will one of them start walking backwards? Or will they stop? I am seeking for this interesting answer.

The reason I want to work with animals is that they are simple, they do not have complicated thoughts, but they do have their nature instincts. The change of the environment might have a impact on them.

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Classics movie

I remember watching this film which is about making fun of old classic black and white none sounded movie. The texts has been changed in between scenes, for example, there would be one of the character speaking for a while in the scene, and the texts comes up with one word or a short sentence, Or something totally irrelevant (with the scene).

And also I remember seeing some of the famous movies (like star wars) has been remade, by redone the voice of each characters, Darth Vadar was saying "fuck" every five seconds, it was hilarious.

What is performance art installation

WHAT IS PERFORMANCE ART INSTALLATION

Performing art installation: Blurring the boundary is a necessity: There was a time when the industrial revolution reduced human ability to mere operations and now with the emergence of nano- tech, on one side, posing a big logical problem for the “presence of human existence” in material world by going zero size, where even the operations are also getting separated from human ability. At the same time, on the other side with technological innovations, tvs, cell phones, digital cameras, computers and printing are flooding us with millions of visual images and communication as big installed object. Under this circumstance, it is become very important for art to define its domain in clear perspective. Installations of monumental blow of up of microscopic world as a protest against nano culture, as it is being practiced, is becoming irrelevant, since it is very much part of the problem itself. It does not portray or protest the human condition. Now it is time that art as an idea or an exploration of possibilities to define its domain at a new dimension. Keeping this objective, a beginning has been made with a performing art installation “ burn door”, by Master program students, Faculty of arts and humanities, CEPT University, Ahmedabad. Performing art installation is a selective mixture from both performance art and installation art . Performance art in a broader term tries to establish the existence of artist through time, space, artist and the relationship between performer and audience (human relation), while installation art explores the sensory experience of audience leaving space and time as dimensional constants (object relation). Keeping this ideological existence of performance art and installation art in defining human existence, furthering the idea to address the present day problem of human identity, this new form of art is developed as- performing art installation. Practice: Performing art installation Performance will be with” absentia” of performer, signifying the elimination of human race by technology even from the “operator” level while digital visual imaging gives the illusion of self importance ( wrapping up of the performer or deliberate elimination of “visibility” of performer’s body. No sound. No artificial lighting “Conceptual “placements of objects , time and space (in contrast to the idea of non conceptual objects in installation) Only open ended ideation, where possibilities are viewer’s prerogative Narendra Raghunath

"Physical Attraction"

"The Pills"

After I had a chat with Michelle about how to present "the pills", she suggested me to arrange the photos in a "time line", so when people walk pass, they will be able to see the changes.

In the group exhibition, I arrange the photos from the beginning to the end in a sequence on the wall, and it caught people's attention, and drawn them to look closer and enjoy the images.