MarkSutherland Environment Presentation
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Date: 9th December 2013
Summative AssessmentCommission Unit:Part 1 - EnvironmentMark Sutherland
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Research ArtistsThomas DemandTess Hurrell Anne Hardy
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Experimentation
Architects Model MaterialsPaper and Card Materials
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Further Research ArtistsLori Nix Thomas Wrede Martin Lang
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Further ExperimentationNatural Materials - Small Version
! This proved to be ahighly successfultechnique to illustratemy ideas andconcepts, openingnew avenues forcontextual influence.
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Further ExperimentationNatural Materials - Large Version
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Re-Developing The Concept
! Using the diversity of plants in a singlearea to create individual scenesdifferent in visual aesthetics to each
other.
! However closing the project in.
! Widening the area of materials to
include anything, but focusing on theoriginal location of the plant.
! Creating scenes in which the nativelocation of the plant before
introduction to the UK is displayed.Monday, 9 December 13
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Contextual Research
! Using library and charity shopbooks, as well as internetsearches, to investigate theintroduction and origin ofspecific plant species.
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Combining this informationwith that of the assumptions ofthese plants, this history andplace in society as meaningfulsymbols.
Botany, History of Nature, Horticulture,
Introduction of Various Plant Species
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! The scenes have now taken onfictional composition, notrecreating an exact scene butmerely relating to the assumptionsof the visual aesthetic the originallocations of these plants have.
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Research into dioramas and theirbackdrops proved to be fruitless.These backgrounds weredistractions to the main focalpoints, conveyors of my intended
meaning, within the scene.
Scene Composition and ResearchInto Diorama Backgrounds
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Research Materials/Plant Scouting
! Blue Gum, from aneighbors garden in
Canterbury. Originallyfrom the Mediteranian
! Pine, from a small field inCanterbury. Originally
from North America.
! Yew, from a churchyard inCanterbury. Originallyfrom Northern Europe.
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Test Shoots
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Studio flash lighting kit: Prolite
! Camera: Mamiya RZ
! Lens: 127mm, 140mm and 110mm
! Film: Illford Delta 100 Black andWhite ISO:100
North American Pine, North European Yew, Mediterranean Blue Gum
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Test Shoot Contact Sheet
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Peer review
! Scenes should look more realistic,through no peak of studio set up(i.e. the background boards). and
the use of creating weather.
! This photo showed that weathercan drastically influence landscapescenes and can be used to make
the fake scenes look real.
! The scenes should be entirelydifferent to each other visually. Atthe moment two of them are too
similar. Change Yew to Bamboo.Monday, 9 December 13
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Composition Basis
! These three scenes formed the basis formy recreations, they are the originallocations in which the plants evolved.
! North American Pine, MediterraneanBlue Gum and Chinese Bamboo.
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Final Shoot
How each was set up? Why those specific choices? How each were different
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Finals Contact Sheets
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Printing and Mounting Finals
! Tone andcontrast?
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Paper size?
! Border size?
! Mounting?
! Displaysequence?
! Issue
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Critical Appraisal
For me this project has been immensely enjoyably and highly successful, I have learnt so much in so short atime. I found it difficult at first to narrow my concept down into one that had a workable goal and specificintended meaning. However after I conducted research into other artists that work in the same field, andexperimented with different visual techniques to convey my meanings I found the project pushing itselfforward under its own momentum. I set out to explore the use of scale and recreation as tools for
representing specific meaning in a landscape scene, I feel my final prints do just that. By creating the scenesin which plant material found in the UK originated, I communicate my message of humanities ability tomanipulate the nature around it, to place un-indigenous species into any landscape, just as I have placedthese plants into miniature landscapes, small homages to their true identity. I found the organization of thisproject one in which I could easily manage, being fortunate to own a large garage in which I could set upthese small scenes in a comfortable manner, the set up and photographing of the mini landscapes could beconducted at my own pace, allowing time for precision. Were I not to have this space I would have found theproject highly unmanageable. I found that my test shoots were a good representation of my intended
meaning, but needed a lot more technical skill to develop professional quality photographs. Fortunately theworkshop sessions for the Object Unit gave me those skills I required to light and frame my scenes in themanner to which they required. I faced many difficulties throughout the project, a specific concept to startfrom, lighting and framing the scenes, printing the photographs to the high quality I desired, even to themounting of the photographs onto boards, however I took each problem with calm consideration, soughtadvice from peers and tutors, and above all maintained a level head to solve the problem and move on. Asalways though I felt that time management could have been improved, and will strive to do so in futureprojects.