Houses and Shops

My self directed study at uni is about priorities. Looking at how different people have different priorities and how they can change throughout the hour, day, month, year etc. I started looking at priorities in the environment, first looking at how people organise their front gardens and then I had a look at how shops prioritise the front of their business. I made another book.

Protest

On the 10th November, I joined the student protest in London, against the raise in tuition fees. I made a book about it.

Mushroom type

Using the mushrooms natural reproduction method I decided to try and create a typeface. I first cut out a stencil of the alphabet in both upper and lower case and then also cut out the words 'Hortus, Sylva, Silva' the latin translation for the word garden. I then lay mushrooms over the stencil and left them for a day. The outcome was pretty incredible and worked really well. I made a poster to show the results.

(The lines across the text are from InDesign being gay.)

Super macro love

So this was a pretty exciting discovery. Taking the regular lens of my digital SLR and turning it round makes it work as a super macro lens. Perfect for photographing plants for my project! It's pretty hard to get used to because you have to guess focus and hold the lens on yourself and you can't see anything through the view finder really. But with a bit of experimenting I eventually got the hang of it.

These are just some bits of a flower I was analysing for my project.

Flowers - Day Five

Ok so my internet was down because we didn't pay our bill but these photos are from the fifth (last) day of this little experiment.

Hanging flowers remain the same.

As do the cupboard ones. They're just getting more and more crispy.

The rice flowers have lost a lot of shape and are getting quite delicate to touch but the colour is still fresh.

The flower that was once purple and white is now orange and very moldy. The rest of the flowers that have been pressed are just flat versions of their former selves.

These are the berries I picked a few days ago. I just left them in my room while I decided what to do with them. They've gone all wrinkly like a week old balloon.