Final Battle

Just about finished, hopefully the first 8 of these are going into the exhibition. Glad to get them done and I feel pretty happy with them. It's my first time doing something this big and a lots happened with them over the last 2-3 months.

So here's the final shots! The actual pictures aren't this dark but since they aren't with me I can't adjust the pictures accurately.

The Anima/Animus series
Mixed media drawings

Animus (Pussy)

Anima (Cock)

Animus(Bitch)

Anima(Beefcake)

Anima/Animus Redux series
Mixed media drawings

Hey Baby,Hello Ladies

Kiss Kiss Bangalore

She looks like she can suck

Muscle Mass

Redux Female

Redux Male

The last few months have been really amazing and it all ends this month. I've think I've come a long way and bizarrely grew up too. I'll post more when the exhibition ends.

Jump Start - Pictures of advanced project development
Fast Track - Progress shots and notes of changes to the project
Progress shots - Some progress shots from 12th Oct
Anima/Animus - Advanced progression of the project
Progress 5th Oct - Progress and notes of the project
Arist Statement 1.0 - The first version of the artist statement
September Progress - Some early progress shots
Project Arms2.0 - A discussion on changes in the project
Other Works" - Works that Project "Arms" reference
Project "Arms" hybrids - variants on Project Arms
Project "Arms" - All about the Project
A Look - Retrospective on past drawings

Jumpstart

I've been neglecting this blog lately since everything is moving really fast. Only about less (!) than two weeks till the exhibition. So here's some progress shots.

Had some troubles integrating the heads of the females so on the suggestion of a teacher, I went at it with a stanley knife. The result is quite nice, I was a bit worries but the more I look at it, the better I feel about it.



Not quite finished with these yet, they're almost there. These are "Anima/Animus Redux". Might get darker tones in here.





Some continuations of Redux, they are different now so some new shots will be coming up soon. It's really hard trying to find "smexy" male poses so I got a really good suggestion from a class mate for the man picture here.



Rope family's grown a bit, since last Tuesday, there's about eight pieces so we'll see if this installation will get finished.

fast track

Some progress shots of the project, things are changing really quickly. I've had to cut out the black ones with arms, and now they are becoming an extension of the "Anima/Animus" project. Hopefully it will all come into play soon. But the new drawings, which use the old drawings will be based off some of the work of Ben Tour and possibly Blaine Fontana will have some influence there.

It's really tempting to put some text on these, but I'm not too sure. Do they look finished?





These are the new ones, we'll se what happens here later in the week. Hopefully I have time to pull it all off.





I cooked up a new artist statement since "Project Arms" is now offically debunked.

These are a series of works that explore the relationships between male and female identities through the use of representation. Sourced from how each sex represents each other in their own media, these works are trying to re-evaluate the concepts of male and female identities and differences. Are we still trying to attract attention from ourselves or from each other? How does one see the other side?

Language and gesture play a large part in sexual and non sexual relationships, through the use of these; I hope to explore the differences between how each sex engages with each other.

I think it describes everything a lot better.

Progress shots - Some progress shots from 12th Oct
Anima/Animus - Advanced progression of the project
Progress 5th Oct - Progress and notes of the project
Arist Statement 1.0 - The first version of the artist statement

Forward march

Just an update on how the Anima/Animus pictures are going. As predicted by this week, they are heading more or less in the right direction. There are some problems to fix and a whole barrel with the Female/Male ones.

I tried covering them in ink and now I'm sort of stuck as to keep attacking these in hopes something comes out or leaving them out. Hopefully something comes out soon.





Right now the bull one is my favourite, I think it's got the right amount of pencil line,white paint and ink bits. The head is still a pain in the neck.


I'm thinking of scraping back this head and putting a smaller one on. The body needs some more work, it's too smooth.


Getting somewhere here. Male bodies are hard for me to draw.


Not sure about this one, maybe some more work.


Fast Track - Progress shots and notes of changes to the project
Anima/Animus - Advanced progression of the project
Progress 5th Oct - Progress and notes of the project

.convert Anima/Animus

I've decided to refer to the animal head drawings as "Anima/Animus" instead of "Project Arms". "PA" as a name isn't relavant anymore, I'm not sure what to refer to the other drawings as.

I did a little more work on the animal drawings. To do them properly, I'm going to have to get some more reference pictures. I should explain a little more about these pictures. Starting back again at the arist statement (which I have had described by a teacher as a nesscary evil)

These are a series of works that explore the relationships between male and female identities through the use of representation. Sourced from how each sex represents each other in their own media, these works are trying to re-evaluate the concepts of male and female identities and differences. Are we still trying to attract attention from ourselves or from each other? How does one see the other side?

Anima - man’s feminine side: in Jungian psychology, the feminine aspect of man’s personality

Animus - woman’s masculine side: in Jungian psychology, the masculine aspect of a woman’s personality

Edit 15th Nov: Completly forgot to add this in while I was writing this.

But this project does owe a lot to Heidi Guthmann Birk, a German ceramics artist that I found while researching some things last semester.


Title: Birdlike Woman on Pole
Medium: Stoneware with slip glaze
Size: 128 x 62 cm


Title: Antelope Manimal
Medium: Sagger-fired Stoneware
Size: 33 x 36 cm


Title: Cat Manimal
Medium: Sagger-fired Stoneware
Size: 33 x 36 cm

"The Manimals visualise a unity between animals and the human beings…they display features which we consider animal features. But could they, on the other hand, be human features only found in animals? The levels of interpretation are manifold."
Birck in Waller, J, 2001, The Human Form in Clay, The Crowwood Press Ltd, Wiltshire

Then of course, there's this guy who can be found at the intersection of Ann and Wharf Street. I don't know who made him but I'll glad if anyone can tell me.





So what I'm really trying to get at is, a look at what you find when you look at people through a different perspective. Well maybe how we see people in terms of sexuality and desire. Well, I don't know much about those so I'll leave that for another rant.

But if you went and had a look at some womens and mens magazines, there are some pretty obvious things in how they portray the opposite sex. Which are the sort of poses I'm trying to recreate in the "Anima/Animus" series. As for the animal heads, I find a lot of words that relate to sexual organs/acts or just how people refer to each other has some basis/relates to animals.

"Anima (Beefcake)"

I still need to work on the head, this one refers to the the distorted fact that women seem to have some attraction to men with lots of muscles but also to the perception that men need muscles to be "manly".

"Animus (Pussy)"

The head on this one is bothering me, it's in the wrong position thus making the neck too short. I'm not sure if I should scrap the face off and reglue a new set on. Supposably cats (and people) are very amorous creatures. There's something about looking at pictures of girls in guy magazines, and they are always inviting. There's something kind of "sensual" in the poses and the image they generate. Even if she looks like that, I don't know if she really means it. (Seriously, this is getting hard to write about)

"Anima (Cock)"

Another one with a head problem, and I need to seriously fix the body. When you talk about men and women, there's going to be a joke about "compensation". He looks like he's not too willing to talk about things either. I guess he's the strong and silent type.

"Animus (Bitch)"

This one comes from a picture from a underwear add, so her breasts need a lot of work.

Just a few pictures of what I have been working on in drawing class. We've been working on using projections and cardboard boxes. It's been interesting to say the least. Some of these remind me of the word "bayou". If you read the meaning, then you can kind of see where I'm coming from.

Bayou
–noun, plural -ous. Chiefly Lower Mississippi Valley and Gulf States.
1. a marshy arm, inlet, or outlet of a lake, river, etc., usually sluggish or stagnant.
2. any of various other often boggy and slow-moving or still bodies of water.
[Origin: 1710–20, Americanism;






Progress shots - Some progress shots from 12th Oct
Anima/Animus - Advanced progression of the project
Progress 5th Oct - Progress and notes of the project
Arist Statement 1.0 - The first version of the artist statement
September Progress - Some early progress shots
Project Arms2.0 - A discussion on changes in the project
Project "Arms" - All about the Project