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Book Pages Collage

Rebecca Elizabeth Bierton / April 29, 2015April 29, 2015 / Main Page

The second board I have created focuses on Coningsby as a station, the second station for the railway to visit.
This board is a collage made entirely out of book pages, mounted onto cardboard.
The word ‘Coninsby’ is cut out of the cardboard, this is so that when the board is mounted against the window, the light will shine through the word and be visiually appealing. This will draw direct attention to the back wall of the library, which is the main focus of my piece.
The book pages are used as a direct and visiual link to the library, as well as being a material for me to explore and be creative with.
This is my original sketch for the board:

This is how my board has progressed:

As you can see, I have achieved my goal of having the light shine through the book pages to create a visually pleasing piece of art work. I think with the dark brickwork surrounding this board and the bright light from the window, this will look really good.

Rebecca Elizabeth Bierton

Book Spines Frame

Rebecca Elizabeth Bierton / April 29, 2015 / Main Page

The first board I have created for my window features is a frame made of book spines to frame the window that looks onto Lincoln Cathedral. This has been one of my favourite features since I first explored the library. The cathedral is really clear through this window and looks beautiful, and I do not feel like enough people pay attention to this architextual feature. My book spines frame will hopefully encourage students to look out into Lincoln.
Lincoln is also the first station in which the old railway used to stop, this is where the railway would collect the goods from the warehouse. So this window is particularly important.

This is my original sketch for how I wanted the frame to look.
Dan and Conan talked about experimenting with materials and seeing what I could create so this frame is made entirely out of hardback book spines. The use of book spines is a direct and obvious link to the library, as well bringing your focus to the city of Lincoln, Lincoln as a station and the brickwork feature of the back wall of the library.

This is how my art piece has progressed:

Rebecca Elizabeth Bierton

Trialing a few of the 101 tasks

Jake Lewis Hastings-Eldridge / April 25, 2015 / Main Page

On Friday 24th April 2015, our group went through some of our tasks to see how the general public reacted. We got varied responses, when it came to the “Sleeping” task we had some worried looks and we even had somebody help with getting me and the trolley into the lift. I am beginning to feel very confident regarding the tasks that we have got, and I feel that once we start running each task we will become more confident doing the ‘abnormal’ tasks in front of the whole library.

Transmedia

Michael Tarrant Kirby / April 22, 2015 / Main Page

To create art is to creatively interpret and respond to a stimulus. Transmedial response is one way of transferring an idea between media forms. This is a good way to help develop an idea because it allows you to translate it into different forms that allow you to see find different understandings from different points of view.

I created a transmedia interpretation of a drawing of the iron girders. I decided to interpret this into a sound collage.

This sound collage represents the industrial history of the building. This is interesting because although the Library has changed a lot since is was used for industrial purposes, the structural skeleton of the building has remained the same. When redesigning the library the architects left these ‘raw’ parts of the building to add character and to insure that the buildings history is not lost.

Influence

This exercise helped in the development of my groups site specific performance. We decided to interpret and present our interpretation of the site through different forms instead of sticking to the generic conventions of a performance. We have focused our ideas more on the performativity of the body and the architecture, represented mainly through anatomical sculptures.

Piece Progression

Rebecca Elizabeth Bierton / April 14, 2015April 29, 2015 / Main Page

My piece now focuses on the idea of the railway and the warehouse’s uses. I have a literal railway that runs around the back wall of the library and will carry a small amount of grain. This will be a play on my idea of a trail, as you can follow the railway from board to board. My idea of a board has developed to being the different stations that the railway used to stop at.
Starting with Lincoln, through to Midville. these ‘station’ points will each have a different visiual art piece to focus on. For example, at ‘Lincoln Station’, there will be a window framed with book spines to make you focus on the Lincoln Cathedral.
Each station gives focus to a different aspect connecting the library and the warehouse. This idea has developed from my proposal meeting with Conan and Dan and their suggestions on how to make my work bigger and more ambitious. By having my boards develop into visial art pieces, this has made me focus more on the materials I could use and also work on a bigger scale.
The pieces will be at eye level and so will capture the attention of library users and bring their attention to the back wall of the library, which is my overall aim.