First Year, Texting Project.
When beginning University, we where tasked to bring in three objects that we use everyday that are all the same.
For my project, I decided to use three mobile phones that I had lying around even though they where all broken. We began with a number of different workshops which we had to appropriate our objects too.
After the number of workshops, we where aloud to work within our favourite medium and produce a final overall piece within that medium. This is how I began to start my mass printing making tasks.
I used text from inappropriate messages to create large scale screen-prints that have many layers and lots of experimentation with colours.
The text was taken from an app called MeetMe, 'Where new friends meet' but you can sometimes end up with many inappropriate messages that end up clogging up your inbox. I decided to use sections of these messages to create word bubbles, they where then transferred onto screen and I used them to create these inappropriate prints.
The prints began by me using images that I had taken of the outside of the phone. For my other workshops, It had actually been ripped apart, so I ensured that I focused just on the front of the phone and the keyboard.
For these specific prints, I actually used and old Blackberry phone.
All prints are A3 in size, and I use multiple layers of vivid colours in order to create the bright work that you see. These where some of my most successful prints, and I still go back and reference the work within my current studio practices.
after experimenting with the outside of the phone and the buttons on the keyboard, I then moved onto working with the actual Text Bubbles that I had created in an anticipation of the work.
The text bubbles created interesting and intriguing overlapped pieces of text, with the mixtures of colours involved, this meant that viewers of the work had to look rather closely in order to make out certain words. Peers within my class also tried to make up their own sentences out of the words that where there, creating another viewpoint and interesting aspect to the work.
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The interpretations of the work where quite different throughout the different people in my class, quite a few found the work to be engaging, and they wanted to know who the senders of the messages where and if I knew them personally, a few thought that the work was quite rude and inappropriate due to the language and phrases used on a few pieces and others had other viewpoints on the work or held quite basic opinions.
With these pieces, I do feel like there could of been a lot more work done to them in order to develop the work further.
I did end up developing a series of different wrapping papers which where covered in even more inappropriate text (in response to those who thought that the work was too rude), however, I don't feel like the outcome of those prints where as strong as the original text pieces.
These prints vary from A3 - A2