Beyond Beyond the Frame

Feb.28 until Mar.21

 

In 'Beyond the Frame' you took an existing two dimensional image, brought it into three dimensions, took it back to two again, and then turned it into something else.This project asks you to do the same thing all over again, but this time, to use the last image you have created as your starting point.

Take your image from 'beyond the frame', and now try to build a three dimensional model of it. This time, try model the parts of the interior that you CAN'T see. What might the space look like from a different angle, or if it was modelled at a different scale?

This is an excercise in creativity rather than strict observation. Sketch your ideas, let yourself go, and allow yourself to create the sort of interior that De Hooch, or Antonello, or Degas, or Vuillard, or Durer or even Piranesi could never have imagined.

But when you make your model, work hard to give it the wonderful sense of reality, or weight, and dirt, and texture that you brought to your first models.

And when you have finished your model, make an image of it using the same photoshop techniques that you used to create the images of the painting in the first place.

These paintings were painted centuries ago, when the technique of drawing in perspective was in its infancy. DO NOT correct the perspective of the painter in your model –however wonky it might look. Work out WHY it is like it is, and HOW to make it appear that way.

Perspectives and, traditionally, paintings, exist within frames –your model does not need to –what is implied BEYOND the frame of the picture –what is outside the window? behind the seat, or the bookcase?

This is not a task in neat, white card architectural models, but a messy and absorbing exploration of a world of materials and sensations. Your model may use any materials you desire-fabric, polyfilla, shoe polish, so long as it accurately reflects the materiality of the space within your picture.

This is not a task in making an object, but a space. What your model looks like on the outside is irrelevant –concentrate on the imaginative world you create on the INTERIOR.

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