'I wish you...'

For the winter holidays, full of presents, dilicious dinners and cosy candelight we got a suprise as well: a new assignment. The Christmastree was not only a decorated fir tree but also a source of inspiration, because we were told to design our own wrapping paper for gifts. But the ordinary decoration like snowmen and sleges full of presents was ofcourse out of the question. It had to present my view on the holidays as Christmas and New Year.


Wrapping Paper by Jilca

 So I designed a red paper with a pattern of hands holding each other. I am a fan of these holidays because it brings people together and with a little present everyone tries to please the persons they appriciate.
With a white ribbon it should be a nice wrapped present.

Association

November- Got an assignement on association. We were given a different theme per group, mine was 'Human Body' (Other theme's were 'Founa and Flora', 'Transport', 'Household', 'Sports and Games'.). 

I was glad with the subject I was given, because the skin is also the boundary of my subject. 'Fauna and Flora' seems to me without an end, but still it was difficult.

It was up to us to pick something from our theme, in my case I could have chosen, for example, for a nose and associate it with something else, like a vacuum cleaner.

For this assignment  I worked for the first time with Photoshop, which was not very easy (I thank all makers of those great You-Tube tutorials on Photoshop!).


Buttocks as pillows



Lips as stamps



Eyebrows as umbrellas



Some practical information about the assignement:

The photographs of the girl, the stamps on the back and the bird pillow I used from the Internet.
The format had to be 190mm x 280mm. We had to make three associations in the same direction (horizontal or vertical) and there had to be a visual overlapment in design.



Experimental Arts studio

I really enjoyed this assignement. We were able to give our minds a free run, so no graphic or visual rules!
We had to choose one photograph made by a professional journalist and it was up to us to deside the next image following up the formentioned.

I picked a Worldpressphoto taken by Frank Fournier about Omayra Sanchez, a young girl that drowned in water, concrete and mudd. She was a victim of an eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz vulcano in 1985. Omayra had survived for 60 hours, but rescue workers were unable te save her. Eventially she died of gangrene and hypothermia.

photgraph by Frank Fournier in 1985, Columbia

It was told that stuck in her situation she was in great agony, but still she sang and had normal conversations. The most intriging are her eyes, they turned all dark as if she is faceless, but at the same time her whole face is a symbol for horror and torture. I took this notice as a starting point and figured that she was fully covered in mudd, her body might even absorbed it all after so long. So in my next image I transformed the girl in a symbol for all she had to endure. Then I fully changed the scene. I didn't want her to die in the mudd, still stuck under the concrete. When she fully drowned, she disappeared, like Alice in the rabbithole, into a colourfull and bright world. I made an abstract version of Wonderland were Omayra could rest.



mudd mixed with glue, acryl and a branch;
all fixed on cardboard. 600x800mm

Gossip

One of the first studio-assignments 1BV. We were asked to think of the most gruesome, juicy gossip we'd ever heard and present the rumour by designing two A3 posters. One poster had to contain a photograph in it a surrounding that had to do with the gossip. The other one had to be of typographic nature and should enclose two sentences from the rumour as told.
 



Left: soccerfield in Schoonderbuken, Belgium
Right: "We thought soccer was about talent... but now it seems his mother sleeps with his trainer!"

Project Cigarettes

It is a small project to be continued about fascinating, well known and smoking men.
My purpose was to underline the men's mystery by adding their habit to smoke,
as I find the smoking ritual mesmerizing and intriguing as well.
All four are drawn with kohl-pecils.

Part 1: Johnny Cash



Part 2: Tom Barman



Part 3: Till Lindemann



Part 4: Urbanus
(An exception on the theme, but also a fascinating man)