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Date: 9th December 2013

Summative AssessmentCommission Unit:Part 1 - EnvironmentMark Sutherland

Monday, 9 December 13


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Research ArtistsThomas DemandTess Hurrell Anne Hardy



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Experimentation

Architects Model MaterialsPaper and Card Materials



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Further Research ArtistsLori Nix Thomas Wrede Martin Lang



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Further ExperimentationNatural Materials - Small Version

! This proved to be ahighly successfultechnique to illustratemy ideas andconcepts, openingnew avenues forcontextual influence.



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Further ExperimentationNatural Materials - Large Version



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Re-Developing The Concept

! Using the diversity of plants in a singlearea to create individual scenesdifferent in visual aesthetics to each

other.

! However closing the project in.

! Widening the area of materials to

include anything, but focusing on theoriginal location of the plant.

! Creating scenes in which the nativelocation of the plant before

introduction to the UK is displayed.Monday, 9 December 13


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Contextual Research

! Using library and charity shopbooks, as well as internetsearches, to investigate theintroduction and origin ofspecific plant species.

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Combining this informationwith that of the assumptions ofthese plants, this history andplace in society as meaningfulsymbols.

Botany, History of Nature, Horticulture,

Introduction of Various Plant Species



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! The scenes have now taken onfictional composition, notrecreating an exact scene butmerely relating to the assumptionsof the visual aesthetic the originallocations of these plants have.

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Research into dioramas and theirbackdrops proved to be fruitless.These backgrounds weredistractions to the main focalpoints, conveyors of my intended

meaning, within the scene.

Scene Composition and ResearchInto Diorama Backgrounds



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Research Materials/Plant Scouting

! Blue Gum, from aneighbors garden in

Canterbury. Originallyfrom the Mediteranian

! Pine, from a small field inCanterbury. Originally

from North America.

! Yew, from a churchyard inCanterbury. Originallyfrom Northern Europe.



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Test Shoots

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Studio flash lighting kit: Prolite

! Camera: Mamiya RZ

! Lens: 127mm, 140mm and 110mm

! Film: Illford Delta 100 Black andWhite ISO:100

North American Pine, North European Yew, Mediterranean Blue Gum



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Test Shoot Contact Sheet



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Peer review

! Scenes should look more realistic,through no peak of studio set up(i.e. the background boards). and

the use of creating weather.

! This photo showed that weathercan drastically influence landscapescenes and can be used to make

the fake scenes look real.

! The scenes should be entirelydifferent to each other visually. Atthe moment two of them are too

similar. Change Yew to Bamboo.Monday, 9 December 13


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Composition Basis

! These three scenes formed the basis formy recreations, they are the originallocations in which the plants evolved.

! North American Pine, MediterraneanBlue Gum and Chinese Bamboo.



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Final Shoot

How each was set up? Why those specific choices? How each were different

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Finals Contact Sheets



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Printing and Mounting Finals

! Tone andcontrast?

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Paper size?

! Border size?

! Mounting?

! Displaysequence?

! Issue

resolution?Monday, 9 December 13


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Critical Appraisal

For me this project has been immensely enjoyably and highly successful, I have learnt so much in so short atime. I found it difficult at first to narrow my concept down into one that had a workable goal and specificintended meaning. However after I conducted research into other artists that work in the same field, andexperimented with different visual techniques to convey my meanings I found the project pushing itselfforward under its own momentum. I set out to explore the use of scale and recreation as tools for

representing specific meaning in a landscape scene, I feel my final prints do just that. By creating the scenesin which plant material found in the UK originated, I communicate my message of humanities ability tomanipulate the nature around it, to place un-indigenous species into any landscape, just as I have placedthese plants into miniature landscapes, small homages to their true identity. I found the organization of thisproject one in which I could easily manage, being fortunate to own a large garage in which I could set upthese small scenes in a comfortable manner, the set up and photographing of the mini landscapes could beconducted at my own pace, allowing time for precision. Were I not to have this space I would have found theproject highly unmanageable. I found that my test shoots were a good representation of my intended

meaning, but needed a lot more technical skill to develop professional quality photographs. Fortunately theworkshop sessions for the Object Unit gave me those skills I required to light and frame my scenes in themanner to which they required. I faced many difficulties throughout the project, a specific concept to startfrom, lighting and framing the scenes, printing the photographs to the high quality I desired, even to themounting of the photographs onto boards, however I took each problem with calm consideration, soughtadvice from peers and tutors, and above all maintained a level head to solve the problem and move on. Asalways though I felt that time management could have been improved, and will strive to do so in futureprojects.

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