Collaboration Project Week 2 continued...

THURSDAY:

Today I brought in my materials as well as A5 photocopied collages to add to Rachel's paintings to then stab bind our little book collection of our work for the project. I decided to Japanese Stab Bind as this is a simple effective way of binding, and as Rachel has never done this before I thought it would be good to teach her a new skill she could use again. 

Here shows our piece to then go alongside a selection of our paintings/collages. I think the book has worked well in bringing our responses together. The order of the book is edited to images that correlate to each other either by the focus of a body part or the composition. I think for the 2 week project the outcome is successful but if we had longer, or decided on the book earlier in the project we could have produced a much better finalised edition. This was made up with trimmed photocopies of our work and then pages stuck together so they could be presented side by side. With more time we could have arranged the layout in InDesign - scanned in our images and then placed them alongside the covers, to then print it double-sided which would have made it a cleaner, more finalised piece, rather than sticking the pages together. Also we could have experimented by printing on different papers. Either with textures or colour such as a flesh/pink, which would have then reflected the ideas behind the work to by focusing on the female form. We did not have the time to do this though, but I still think the photocopy versions of my collages look good. It flattens the image and making it black and white they work well alongside Rachel's. So even though if we had planned this outcome further in advance rather than deciding to do it this week and could have made a cleaner and more professional piece, I think the hand-made collection still works well, presenting our explorations to the audience. We will present this with a selected few works as well as with our preparatory work for the pop-up show tomorrow. I will also write a small statement to explain our final outcomes so it is clear for the audience what exactly we are presenting.