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Images what I like- Chapter CUATRO

Images what I like- Chapter DREI

Images what I like- Chapter DEUX

Images what I like- Chapter 1

Space 1999

One of the only two watchable programmes ever to grace ITV... a fine example of 70s colour saturation

Author - genesis.

After what seemed like a thousand false starts with this costume I settled on this... the idea was that it is a sort of astronaut suit, loosely inspired by Pierre Cardin's space age designs from the 1960s and Oscar Schlemmer's 'Triadic ballet' costumes. I was planning on giving the costume more Schlemmer-esque form defying structure but that never quite happened, although the paper plates did sharpen up the form.
I decided to base it on a spacesuit because of their function of being protective whilst also being designed for exploration and adventure. I filled the inside of my costume with freeze-dried packets that stored memories/objects/food/people etc that I'd need to have with me if I were to go on that long dreamed of space adventure.

final goose

Goose part two

Object 3 - 'The goose that laid the golden eggs'

The brief asked us to produce a narrative sequence of images that related to our research from object 1 and 2. My research into when my chosen chair (Le Corbusier's B306 Chaise Longue) was made led me to an edition of Aesop's Fables published in Paris in the same year. I chose the story of 'The goose that laid the golden eggs' and i wanted to remove it from its traditional setting but i wasn't sure how.. the interim group crit proved very helpful, where we came up with the idea of working on eggs. There was also a suggestion of shooting and skinning a goose and then tattooing the narrative sequence onto its skin but i'm not sure how practical that would have been considering the time restrictions and my lack of hunting and tattoo skills.
I initially tried working purely with gouache but it didn't work well due to the size of the eggs and the amount of information i wanted to contain. I didn't think that the eggshells would take pencil particularly well but I am actually quite pleased with the results.

Object 2 - Chair cont'd.

Object 2 - Chair

Here are a few extracts from the '20 alternative uses for your chair' part of the brief... my chair was Le Corbusier's B306 Chaise Longue. The alternative uses here are: as a necklace, a mouth, a pet, an embrace, part of a science kit, a scarf, camera mechanism, ramp, hammock and blanket.