Stop-Motion Animation

I wanted to do a stop motion animation on a drawing of the factory I am investigating. I did this because I wanted to show how man develops places and things over time and to show the effort that was made by the people who put it there in the first place. Also, I decided to add a rising sun to show the passage of time and I gradually crumpled the page to show the destruction of time on the world we don’t maintain. This work appeal to me because I like how the world will reclaim itself once we allow it to so if ever a time comes that were not here the world will heal itself.

I decided to do the same work here in sepia because I believe it better shows the abandonment of the work and better expresses how I feel about the area.



Research of Abandoned Areas and Artists using Abandoned Areas

 

 

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The Concept

To sense my space;

It took a long time but I believe I have finally settled on a concept to properly engage with for the brief. Typical me taking so long with something as serious as this. If I had to sum up the concept in a few words I would have to pick "My Personal Spaces" but to be specific it’s a project based around abandoned or secluded areas. I chose to base my project around this because it’s an area that has a lot of personal meaning to me. Practically my entire childhood was spent wallowing in these areas and almost all my fondest and most memorable memories are from abandoned areas like the agricultural factory, old houses, alley ways, building sites, ghost estates and the upper floors of multi-story car parks.

Some people will understand this concept and appreciate it and others won’t. For me experiencing the feelings that these places provide growing up is almost indescribable. There is no one word to describe the feeling of exploring these places for the first time unless there happens to be a word that represents a child, on Christmas morning, in a crack house, with not a care in the world, but the ever present chance of a Garda attack, and the overwhelming joy of indescribable and absolute freedom.

Factory Videos

Please excuse the music and video qualiy I will inprove this in future videos.

Solarised Factory Images

Having never used Photoshop I decided one day to sit down and have a go! Not only kill a couple of hours but to explore it as a resource for creating pieces of work. It was very difficult trying to get the hang of it for the first time but I found myself doing the simple thing first by exploring  all the filters on a few images I had. Some worked most didn’t! Then it came to solarise. I admit it was not my intention to solarise the images because I knew it would improve them I just happened to stumble upon it through process of elimination. However the case, I feel it works perfect for what I was trying to capture. The images now show the eeriness that I wanted to show for the area and at the same time it doesn’t take from the building itself.

This image is my favourite of the bunch. In my eyes it couldn't be any better. It's exactly what I wanted to achieve and how I wanted the factory to be portrayed.