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| First three pictures used with permission by Marina Belikova |
I just realised I never actually put up any decent photos of the process or the final work! All of it is gold marker on black paper (process) and mount board(final piece)
Notes from my self-evaluation:The piece ended up being in a poster-esque format in an oblong 59,4 x 30cm shape. I chose to not do a standard A size because the narrower format would suit the arrangement of the numbers better. The piece is there to show us some of the dates that the world didn’t end. There have been so many predictions of “The end of the world”,” Doomsday” and “The Apocalypse” through the years, yet people seem to still be very interested in the phenomenon, especially this year with the end of the Mayan calendar that has been talked about for a few years now. Circles are often used to represent the sun, and gold is the often depicted colour of the sun, especially early on. The gold on the dark background shows how light can thrive amongst the dark.
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The placement of the numbers were measured from an InDesign document, but otherwise drawn down by me with a pencil and then filled in with a gold marker. The circles were laid down with a compass with a lot of thought put into the placement, thickness of lines and placement, which were later painstakingly “dotted” in with the same golden marker. I feel some of the circles were overworked and not as aesthetic as the first pieces I made (note the larger black sheet in the roll), because of a slightly different technique I went for to try and save me from overworking my wrist.
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I feel this piece has not reached it’s full potential, but of course since it is handmade it is not an easy thing to fix. Had I done all of this all over again I think I might’ve tried to add a second 59,4 x 30cm block with a blank black background and with “It’s Not The End of The World” – which is the title of the piece, in gold. Then I would have chosen to fill the entire surface of the first piece in the dotted circles because that would suit a two-piece set up a lot more. I chose not to have a completely filled background for this piece to make it more dynamic and not as symmetrical.
Process
