Beyond the

Boundaries

Ideas

Main project output

Interlinked photography, graphics and text series. (includes collage)

A physical printed book
An animated eBook
A final projection installation that will allow the audience to enter their
own state of self reflection

The book is 3 staged journey. However the movement through to the next
part of the book will be transitioned.
Beauty within the little things- Innocent child stage the little things
bring joy
Finding identity Growing stage
Finding inner peace bringing yourself to see beauty within the little
things
All these elements will be represented by visual poetry, but will be vague so
it is not too personal

Niina Vatanen

Niina Vatanens photographs resemble notes from a

personal diary. Not those notes written to describe
exact events, but those written to describe certain
feelings or moods. Unlike a diary, however, her discreet
entries do not follow a specific timeline or sequence.
Inscribed by light, they become traces of moments past,
little stories that trigger memories.
Niina Vatanen finds the narrative for her subjects either
in her own experiences and observations or in novels
and movies. The images are little stages in which she
combines her different inspirations in order to create
possible events that happened in time and in
memory. The images are both contained and open,
each one telling its own little story. Depending on
arrangements or sequencing, they may suggest a
multitude of different narratives.
Niina Vatanens photographs tell a tale of longing and
fleeting memories. Her tales, intimate and fragile, give
the viewer the impression that he or she is participating
in something that is at once personal and universal.

Contextual

Her photographs are like subconscious visions... Fractured,

open, associative, they trigger something in our minds that
immediately connects us to our own memories.
The artists images are anchored in a singular, specific
moments, but banal, everyday content of each of her
photographs allows this moment to become timeless and
universal.
My pictures are attempts to recognizing and shedding
light on the obscure and vague movements. I want to
approach the momentary quality of living through
constancy. The paradox is that when you try to conserve or
protect a moment by photographing it, you inevitably
loose it at the same time.

Anni Leppl

Contextual

Relationship between
Physical & NonPhysical
Nature (flowers) &
Digital images
Materials/ textures &
Block colour graphics
Physical book &
Animated ebook

Photography

Ulla
Jokisalo

In all her works the artists

referenced are exclusively
feminine, in particular those
related to the process of
craftsmanship. Cutting, sewing,
and stitching are elemental to
her work; gestures which she
sees as being directly connected
to women, to the mother, and to
the unconscious.

Style

Jose Romussi

My work is a constant search to express and represent my ideas. My

occurring artworks are a reaction of my inspiration.
This starts with an image, that inspires me in certain way to do an
embroidery that changes it into a new one. I am always searching for a
new sense of interpretation for my pieces. My technique for that is
using thread as the medium to merge different time spaces. I am not
afraid of breaking a picture, the important thing for me is
using embroidery, a technique not usually used on paper, to do it on a
photograph, because this is a part of the process.
I intervene images by applying my own perception of beauty to them.
Sometimes by giving them a new identity or a different aesthetic
concept. Its the chance to give this image a new emotion, a new life, a
new interpretation of beauty through embroidering.

Embroidery physical manipulation instead of digital

Style

Rocio
Montoya

The human body in synergy

with nature
The female figure
The loss of identity
Poetic graphic style
Visual poetry
Diary of visual memories

Contextual

Graphics

Installation

Pipilotti Rist

 Working Title - Satori

is a Japanese Buddhist term for awakening,
comprehension; understanding. In the Zen
Buddhist tradition, satori refers to the experience
of kensh, seeing into one's true nature.
Pure Joy

Learning Agreement
Description
I will be creating a printed book, animated ebook and installation piece. The printed book and
animated ebook will be a cohesive series of photography and graphics. It will be on the
subject of the journey one may take through the body and mind. As well as this I will create
a final projection installation which will allow the audience to fall into a state of self
reflection.
Aims
My career goal is to be able to be flexible and resourceful for my employers by being able to
provide a variety of skills. Therefore my aim is to create a portfolio that showcases the
different skills I have.
This project will also give me an opportunity to explore my interests further. These interests
include photography, design and physical as well as digital crafting.
To create a project that is strongly secured with contextual studies, so in depth research
and documentation will also be core to my project.
I aim to become more confident with adobe software
Skills and Recourses
Design
Producing

Pre-production plan

More contextual research to strengthen and refine

subject using photography, graphic design books from
the library, as well as online magazines and ebooks
Record my personal findings
To strengthen my photography and animation skills I
will research using books and lynda.com
Practice and improve existing skills in Photoshop,
premiere and flash. Hope to explore illustrator and
Lightroom.
Find models and plan shoot dates in studio
Create detailed sketches of all 3 parts
Create the first part of the book
Create the basic book/ebook layout
A full plan of installation

Link to
schedule

 http://juliacowell.blogspot.co.uk/
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