Studio Silhouettes

After Mike Fox saw my map people last week he suggested I look at the people in my studio - We all come from different parts of the country but meet in the same place everyday.

So I'm now in the process of getting silhouettes of all the people in my studio, when they're ready I'm going to project onto the silhouettes their routes from their homes to Limerick.
 I'm going to trace the route onto their silhouettes then go over the lines in tape, paint it black  remove the tape then to reveal the map. I'm thinking also of maybe getting flouresnt paint to track their route on the map shine lights on them in a dark and take pictures. and maybe turn the silhouettes into a stop motion clip....we shall see.

Peter Callesan

Peter Callesan was the inspiration for my map people. Using just  sheets of paper and a scalpal he transforms a flat plain surface into something extraordinary that expands into space. 

  

David Oliveira

 

 

David Oliveira's wire sculptures. I love these they're like pen and ink drawings done straight onto / into space.

My bus station people

Because I spend a lot of time in bus stations due to the lack of a car and not being able to use one I started to look at how people occupied the space there.

Same photo of Bus Aras in Dublin I blocked out the area around with white acyrlic-

would you still know it was taken at a bus station?

Working from the same photo I put masking tape down on paper in strips drew a line drawing of just the crowd over it tore the masking tape off and put them together so you see fragments of the people like on a busy city street. the guy at the fronts face stretched was just to try and convey movement,

 Here I traced over my original line drawing then worked onto it with thread picking people out of the crowd.

I then erased the rest of the crowd.

In the 3D studies seminar Elaine showed us David Olivera's line drawings with wire which I thought were really interesting so I decided to experiment with it myself. Using one piece of wire to make the line of silhouettes in different sizes I then layered them over each other.

 At a bus station we're all waiting in the one place but we're going different ways.
 Elaine talked about paper sculptors at the 3d lecture as well and I saw on her tumblr page sculptures done by Peter Callesan just with paper and a scalpel he had people popping up off the sheet running away from a fire so I decided to do it with my people at the bus station on a printed map.

Being a passenger

I go home on the bus on a friday and get drove down here (thanks Mammy)  to Limerick on a sunday so  being a passenger I don't have to focus on not getting hit my an articulated lorry I get to take in my space as it changes. Sunday I decided to document that change in my sketchbook.


I started doing Little drawings I'd look draw what was in front of me at the time look up again draw the new view so I had a lot of scribbly drawings on one page which as you can see don't really look much like anything:

 I thought that looked pretty awful so I decided instead  draw what I saw in front of me all on top of each other like an over exposed photograph...but scrawlier.

This one we'd pulled in  at tescos when we we parked parts of people walking by, everything that I could see.

Halfway to Limerick I switched to pen and I think it looks a lot better and I'd like to do one of these as an etching.

I started this project looking at the differences between my own home in the countryside and my new home in the city.

I got pictures from home of basically..a load of shit, cut them up tore them etc and then mixed them in with a photo of a crowded William St. :

Field of dreams  cowshite

Original Photo of William St. on top.

Pen drawing with torn and cut out photo of the countryside additions on bottom.

Strips from both photos stuck together.