Biography Project

Over Easter we got set a project to create 5 final pieces on a specific person, I got given the scientist Robert Boyle

Here are some drawings i did of him:

I decided to focus on some predictions that he made, when alive in the 1600's as it's quite remarkable how he managed to make such accurate predictions on how the world/technology would develop.

Here are his predictions:

I decided to then base my work on how these predictions actually could have turned out and/or how he may have perceived them. I decided to just focus on 4 of them;

 the art of flying-

The cure of diseases by distance or by transplantation:

The practical and certain way of finding longitudes:

The acceleration of production of things out of seed:

Here are my five final pieces for the project:

Author project - Society

Next we had to create a world which our characters all lived in, and from this create a manifesto of our world and what our aims are.

We decided that our world was inside a being inside a world. Our characters all represented different parts of the body, the brain (me), the female side, the male side, and the childish side.

Here are some images i did for the project:

Here is the manifesto we created, we hand screen printed them in red, blue and grey:

We also screen printed some of the page designs onto t-shirts.

I decided to print one of our logo, and one of my drawings to do with my character:

I also made the website for our society 'TEAB' where you can learn more about us and our characters:

http://web.me.com/lyviaalexandra/TEAB/TEAB.html

Author project - Film

The next task was for us all to get into groups and create a short film of our characters about a given word, our word was 'meet'.
We decided to stage a blind-date type set up in a park where other characters would come and have a date with the brain.
click here to watch:
http://vimeo.com/20167155
Stills from it:

author project - costume

We got given a project in which we had to define our 5 primary needs and then design a costume around them; i chose dogs, tv, mints, reading and breakfast. I decided to create a brain costume, as it sort of involves all of our primary needs, especially reading.

I constructed the base of it out of chicken wire:

Then created the brainy bits out of stuffed tights. The idea of it was that the wearer would sit inside it, and the creature moves along on a skateboard.