The Book I have chosen is Dr Seuss Green Eggs and Ham.

The book I have chosen to interpret is Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham. This book is a personal favourite of mine, I have loved it since I was a child. I was first introduced to the book when I was just 4 years old when my teacher Mrs Leek read it aloud to the class. I instantly fell in love with the unusual story lines and magical creatures. My mother then bought me the book for my birthday. I finally had a copy and my own doorway into the bizarre yet beautiful mind of Dr. Seuss. From there on this book never fails to excite me and amaze me, with it's unique illustration along with it's bright bold lines and colours, which come to life every time you open the book and read the imaginative story line.

Dr.Seuss

The Book Project

I had a summer Project given to me for my first year of uni in Cardiff met the brief was:-

The Book

For this project we would like you to find a book, it can be any sort of book, but choose carefully as we are asking 

you to re-interpret it. You can intervene with it, hack it, deconstruct it, recycle it, re-interpret it, you can work 

with both its form and its content to explore its reinvention/re-presentation in a myriad of ways.

What does a book represent or mean to you… as message, medium, metaphor or material?

For centuries books have contained and presented the written words that have allowed humankind to study and 

interpret the world. The role of books is questioned in our digital age, yet they continue to be objects of desire 

with an emotive allure. You can explore the interplay between the function, structure, and format of books and 

the outcomes can be as diverse as books themselves.

A book is a place, a site, a repository, a dream, a collection, a life, but it is also material, physical and adaptable.

It can be factual, imaginative, instructive, inflammatory, poetic or profound.

What informs your choice of book to work with & what types of book are there to choose from: genres, 

reference, manual, technical, health, historic, graphic novel…

Take a book on a journey: bring back to college 10 different propositions and one realised outcome.

Consider:

• How is a book constructed, from what materials and what techniques? Traditionally it is paper based with ink 

print, bound through glue or stitch the leaves of which are held between harder protective covers. Work with 

this or against it.

• How is it bound, which cultures make books differently?

• What is your relationship to the book: is it ‘yours’ or is it borrowed, stolen, found, gifted, cherished and 

shared. What are you wishing to say and share about the experience of the book to others.

Remember you are not making a book…. You are making a book into something new.

I was given this at the beginning of  July 2014. 

Portfolio, Interviews and University.

This has been a very busy week for me, on Wednesday the 19th of march I had my first interview of two for the University of south wales for BA hons Art Practice. The interview went well and I felt very comfortable and it was a friendly atmosphere and i'm happy to announce that they had offered me a place. The second interview was on the Friday the 21st of March and it was held with Cardiff Metropolitan university and I was interviewed at the Llandaff campus. I really loved Cardiff I fell in love when I had a presentation and touring the newley built building. When interviewed the feedback was very positive and I was told I was an ideal candidate. I am now waiting to hear from my ucas to see what desicions were made and then I can make a choice.

My portfolio was very successful and I thought I presented my work strongly and with passion. I finished my portfolio on the monday and I just went through and tidyed up where it needed to be. 

 Here are my pages from my portfolio.

Shattering Glass

For the word 'Shatter' I wanted to re create the motion ofshattering and the best way to do that was to actually break glass. I used a section of glass from a photoframe and shattered it using a hammer and these are the results. I think the process was successful and the shattered glass looked very good. I took photographs because I could not keep the broken glass. I liked how the word shatter which was printed on card underneath the glass looked warped when the glass shattered on top. I was very happy with the outcome. 

'Abyss' Abstract Canvas

For my final version on Abyss I decided to create an acrylic abstract canvas, I used a mixture of whites, blues, deep purples and blacks. I made a circle in the center and then using a dotted motion I went from white to black, using blue and purple to tone the colours down. I am very pleased with the result.

'Shatter' Photograph With Sections Cut Out

I took one of the photographs I had taken for the word 'Natural' and using a scalpel I removed sections of the photograph to represent the word shatter I cut portions out and tried to imitate the reaction and the development of broken glass shattering. I wanted to create a fore ground being the image and a background where you could see through the shattered section. I think I had to add two grounds to make it more 3D. I am very pleased with this postcard because of how realistic it looks.

Burnt Out Matches Experiment

When I think of burnt out I think of the end process with a match it nearly burnt away burning would be when the flame it still in the process of burning and then the first step would be striking a match. I wanted to create a series/timeline of matches to show the gradual burnt out process, I lit a few matches and let them burn then for a longer amount of time after each match until the last match was fully burnt out. I would blow each match out or place in to a mug of water to stop the burning process. By showing the process from the start you can see from where it all began and where it all ends up. especially when you can't reverse the burnt out process. I think the series of matches shows the perfect definition of burnt out.

Abyss Acrylic Representation

On a piece of acrylic paper I took my three colours which were Black, white and blue and painted and mixed and blended with the end of a paintbrush and my fingers. This is my own representation of the word 'Abyss'. When I think of abyss I picture the bluest depths of the darkest sea. I think my representation shows a mixture of the light, the darkness and the way that I have mixed the acrylics, reflects the texture of the sea with the harsh waves and tidal currents.

Fingerprints On A Candle

I was picking up my candle the other day and the scorch marks from the flame created charcoal dust on the glass container. when I pressed my finger into it it created a very detailed finger print I thought it looked very interesting because not everyday you see your fingerprints on house hold items although you always leave them, you never really see them, so I decided to photograph it and here are the results. what is also interesting is the sections of charcoal residue that is still left.