Experimenting with Backgrounds

Spent this week incorporating the idea of using busy patterns behind the alien heads, to see how they hold up. So I took some of my previous designs and placed them over a variety of background patterns like camouflage and foliage, or brightly colored line-work, and I think they held up pretty well. I think if I have the chance to get a shirt with a similarly busy design on it, I'd like the chance to try printing one of the designs on that to see how it interacts in that form as well. Also printed a few of these on shirts with iron-on transfer paper over Thanksgiving break, to get a quick mock-up of how these would look on solid colored t-shirts, and I'll bring those to class to be looked at.

Also did a few more quick alien head variations.

Hieroglyphs

Based on my panel review I wanted to continue with making more variations of the vectorized scars. Giving a feeling of an alphabet, while still retaining the aspects of the memorial.
 

GIF Experiments

I have created 3 GIFs that are exploratory in line art animation. I used two Gustav Klimt paintings as examples for this exploration, and I also used one of my own drawings. I also wrote some new music pieces to combine with the imagery that is contrasting in terms of mood. This is different from my previous film styled videos, and I feel that this could help lead into more opportunities for other visual content. I chose Gustav's work to play with, because he is one of my favorite artists; and when looking at his pieces I see varied stories in his work. Also this was a newer process for me to work in, so I feel that I gained a new understanding of how to create visuals without strictly relying on film. I can incorporate both in newer experiments. 

Gustav Klimt - The Kiss

this is the full song

Here is another sketch I had as an idea for this one..a butterfly progression

The second Gustav GIF is Mother and Child

Gustav Klimt - Mother and Child

full song for mother and child

My last GIF is from one of my drawings

Like You Mean It

full song for like you mean it

stamped patterns

Patterns created from taking multiples of best chosen vectors of various stamps, combining them, and adding these layers of collaborating colors.
 

a hand in nature

installation view, Gabrielle Burgess, A Hand in Nature
28 November 2017

Kairos
senior thesis exhibition for Maegan Shilkey, Bryant Skopek, Jameel Radcliffe, Victoria Lopez, Gabrielle Burgess, and Jessica Criscuolo

Reception Wednesday 29 November, 5-8pm
 

App Flow Progress

Last week I began using the Adobe XD program and started mapping out the bare pages and flow of the app. I felt like I couldn't go further without knowing exactly the flow from initial question to each end result, so I wrote out a flow chart on paper, which I can mimic with the XD flow lines to travel from page to page within the app.

XD flows

I am thinking about how I will display these end results and I'm considering simple illustrations that could be instructional as well.

I am also deciding if a working XD prototype will be sufficient or if I should treat it as just a prototype and use coding later.

students at Hardie, 2014, 1924

Class of 2018 (August 2014)
from Montserrat Facebook
(color to grayscale)

Hardie School, 1st to 6th grades
Sunday Herald, January 20, 1924
source

it is the marks left by these and others, in the building, that we are recording. honoring. fragments. building a sentence with those fragments. a new building.

Two thousand years have passed, my father used to tell me, and now every Jewish soul is built around the house that burned in that fire, so fast that we can, each one of us, only recall the tiniest fragment: a pattern on the wall, a knot in the wood of a door, a memory of how light fell across the floor. But if every Jewish memory were put together, every last holy fragment joined up again as one, the House would be built again, said Weisz, or rather a memory of the House so perfect that it would be, in essence, the original itself.
— Nicole Kraus, Great House (2010) : 279