My Serendipity Piece

This is my final Serendipity piece...

This unit, i thin has been about the concept of finding self, and life, and working with the cards you've been dealt. Our art piece for this unit was an ink work which we worked over in pencil creating rhizomes and mandalas, and becoming our very own Andy Goldsworthy. This piece really made me contemplate and reflect upon the ideas that had been presented to us during the unit, as in our final piece we were to create a symbol of self - and that is what the mandalas and rhizomes are all about.

Before we created the final, we originally practised the inks on smaller paper so that we could get somewhat of a handle on the inks. There were multiple ways in which we could apply the inks. For one of them, we immersed the paper in water in a tray, then pulled it out and let the water drain off it. We then dropped the ink onto the wet paper and then let it spread. From there we could just leave it, or we could manipulate the paper to make the ink run in certain directions. We could also add multiple colours of ink. Another technique that we practised was spraying the paper with water and then dropping the ink. We could also spread the ink by blowing it with a straw, instead of moving the paper.

For my final piece, I used a combination of the techniques. I mostly sprayed the paper with water and then added the inks. To move the ink I manipulated the paper, and i used a straw. The one and only thing that i found frustrating about the concept of Serendipity, was the lack of control you had over the outcome.


These are some close up images of my final piece, courtesy of Mrs Vincent.