10:05am, Colour on Korean paper, 2024 Park Yunji is an artist based on Seoul, South Korea. She explores ephemerality in her practice, and while reading online I discovered her series of works depicting the shadows of trees. They immediately resonated with me because they reminded me of the cyanotype images I had been making using…
Komorebi – Light Filtered Through Trees
Komorebi is a Japanese term meaning ‘sunlight leaking through trees’. It can refer to the feeling of beauty and tranquility of walking through a forest. I have been testing out ways of visually depicting the feeling. I tried manipulating some photos I took to see the different visual effects and which ones most successfully evoked…
Printmaking Techniques – Lino Printing
This is a lino cut that I made of a view of Nottingham Castle where the trees overhang the gift shop. I feel that lino printing is an excellent medium for my current work that looks at the negative spaces of trees, because I can really focus on those spaces as I physically cut them…
Printmaking Techniques – Drypoint
Drypoint, is the technique of making scratches onto a surface that will hold ink, in order to be printed. It can create prints with fine, delicate lines. The design is scratched onto a plate by hand or etched using acid, and then printing ink is applied to the surface and pushed into the cracks. The…
Depicting Light
Inspired by the depictions of stained glass in the Early Nottingham Craft Gallery at Nottingham Castle, as well as the Blasted Tree painting, I wanted to refer to the idea of light being a representation of the divine. There is the idea of the divine within nature as well as a visual connection between light…
Walking the City – Investigation Board
I created this investigation board to document my photographic exploration of the city. I wanted to show the circular route that I took along with the contrasting zones I encountered. I find it interesting to see the quiet pockets dispersed throughout and I felt that it deepened my understanding of and connection to the city….
Materials and Techniques of Architecture – Stone
Towers at San Gimignano, Tuscany. It is said to have had more than 70 towers during the Middle Ages. In architecture the form, function and material of a building are closely connected. The purpose of a building determines its form, and this form is also dependent on the materials and techniques available. Some Notable architects:…
Representing Trees
Majesty, 2006 Tacita Dean describes her process as ‘finding a thread and following it’. She started by taking old postcards and painting out the backgrounds to emphasise the trees, which inspired her to create a series of larger photographs of the oldest trees in Britain. Majesty is one of those works- a photographic print on three…
Acorn Reliquary
Following on from the theme of ‘nature as religion’, I was interested in the way that objects are handled in religious contexts as containers of the divine, and I wanted to gather some natural objects and elevate them in a similar way. I chose to use an acorn because of its connection with the Major…
AI Image Creation
I had the opportunity to explore two different AI image creation platforms. There were a few different ways to create the image; I could input a text prompt, input an image to be altered, or I could ‘work collaboratively’ with the AI. We used two platforms – Playground, https://playground.com/ and Leonardo AI https://app.leonardo.ai/ . I found…