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.

Paris

These are a few illustrations from the drawing trip to Gaye Parie, some from museum/gallery visits and one from an afternoon spent on the steps at Montmartre...

sign 1 - Universe

For Sign 1 we had to produce a 'patchy, idiosyncratic universe', I chose the categories of useful and useless and started with an illustration of a full jam jar as useful and an empty one as useless... while I appreciate that an empty jam jar isn't technically useless, it is if its jam you want and not a plain ol' container.