2000 Dead Birds

I want to paint
2000 dead birds crucified on a background of night

That is a line taken from the poem I Want To Paint by Adrien Henri. And what I came up with was this.

In truth, I'm not totally  happy with it. It didn't quite work out the way I had planned in my head. But that's life.

I had to get references of birds' wings so that I could get the shape right and the direction of the 'feathers'.

Lots of ink and lots of mess.

Design Is Everywhere

A manifesto project.


First was to write a manifesto, which took me near enough a whole day because I find it quite hard to write for things like this. But I managed something.

Design is everywhere. Whether it’s commercial or personal. Almost as if it’s stalking us; watching our every move. It’ll stay hidden in the patterns of our sofas while we watch adverts on the television, waiting for that moment to strike as we go to put the ergonomically designed kettle on for the tea we’ve just seen advertised on TV. It’ll always get us in some way. For all you know it’s already made you a victim. It’s on our televisions, our computers, clothes, houses, streets, toys, games, even in our food. It’s a part of society that we can’t get rid of, like those really messy stains that won’t come out of our designer clothes no matter how many times we wash them. Ever feel like you’re being followed? You are. It’s design. But despite how much it surrounds us and follows us, we very rarely actually notice. The only time we do notice it is when it’s right in our faces, or when we design something ourselves, or when it’s stuck on the wall as a pretty piece of art. Perhaps then we ought to notice it a little more, then it won’t have to hide away as much or try and follow us to be noticed.

And then to illustrate it.

It was originally going to be an animation (I even got Rachael to pose for some pictures and everything) but I was just to messy to fix.

Hello.

It seems you have come across my blog. How nice.

Please mind the mess, everything here is still fairly new to me and you might end up staining something. I've no idea what most of the stuff I use is sometimes.

I'm also here --> http://magic92.deviantart.com/ where you'll find some more personal stuff and much much much older (and embarassing) work.