A-Z: Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer is well known for her large-scale displays in public places such as billboards and projections on buildings and other structures. She mainly use text to show ideas in public places. Originally utilizing street posters, LED signs became her most visible medium, though her diverse practice incorporates a wide array of media including bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches and footstools, stickers, T-shirts, paintings, photographs, sound, video, light projection, the Internet, and a Le Mans race car.v

A-Z: Ida Applebroog

Ida Applebroog is a American painter who lives in new York. Applebroog is known for a variety of things including painting, sculpture, books and films that explore themes such as gender, sex, violence and politics. She has received many honours including the MacArthur Fellowship ‘’genius grant’’. Although I find her work to be very dark and somewhat disturbing, I think it is relevant because of how dark and disturbing the topics she works which are. 

A-Z: Fiona Banner

Fiona Banner is an English artist that gained a lot of attention after being short listed for the turner prize in 2002. Her work includes sculpture, drawing and installation, although text is the main ingredient of her work. Banner uses text to get over a message as directly as possible about the topic. I attended the Yorkshire Sculpture park in September of 2014 and saw  her work there, I was immediately impressed by the sheer size of the Chinook piece that was rotating from the ceiling of the large exhibition shape. The exhibition gave and instant idea of large scape some of her work could be.

A-Z: Coco channel

^{Gabrielle Chanel was a French fashion designer who founded the world famous Chanel brand. Chanel has been credited for releasing women from the fashion usual’s of the time, such as corsets, and giving fashion a more casual and sporty style. Chanel’s style and visions were so popular that they have been made into various ranges of handbags, accessory and fragrances, which the Chanel No. 5 fragrance becoming the most iconic. She has become that iconic that she is the only fashion designer to be listed on Time magazine's top 100 influential people of the 20th century.} 

^{I admire Chanel because of how she managed to over write the traditional style of corsets and women only wearing what was acceptable, and give women a new sense of freedom to express themselves in their fashion, which at the time was maybe the only was women were able to express themselves due to what was socially acceptable.}

Micro and Macro: part two

Butterfly charts:

Micro and Macro: Part one.

Define Macrocosm:
From Greek 'makros kosmos' meaning great world.
i) a complex structure, such as the universe or society, regarded as an entirety, as opposed to microcosm, which have similar structure and are contained within it.
ii) and complex entity regarded as a complete system in itself.
Define Microcosm:
From Greek 'mikros kosmos' meaning little world.
i) aminature representation of something especially a unit, a group or place regarded as a copy of a larger one.
ii) man regarded as epitomising the universe.

For this project I chose to look at winged insects, practically butterflies, moths and dragonflies. I was very interested in to structure of the wings and how they aren’t just made of one part; they are made of millions of tiny scales, like little pixels which create the amazing colours and patterns seen on both butterfly and moth wings, and sometimes also dragonflies.

From here I perceived the project as being about a link between the large and small, which led to an interest on how the patterns and you could say ‘eyes’ on butterfly wings are used to make them seem larger or even like a completely different species. To me this was the link between the small (the scales; patterns) and the large (the eyes and disguise given).

I looked into Tracey Bush’s butterfly paper cuts and decided that I wanted to use mainly just the silhouettes of the insects layered with the different images and patterns I created from my studies.