Print Elective, Defining Space!!

To start off the new brief I wanted to look at spaces created by temporary structures in architecture like scaffolding. Going around Limerick I photographed alot of the unfinished buildings left to deteriorate, so looking at how the buildings themselves are unfinished and because of this are just as temporary. I wanted to compare and contrast this idea to the temporary structures of the slums in India and the favelas in Brazil. Ironically these shanty towns are probably more long term then the buildings that are left to deteriorate in our culture today.

   

    

                                        

 These prints have about 5 layers, layering the rough sketch etching of the bamboo scaffolding with the structured etching of the steel scaffolding. I wanted to layer them to get depth and that overcrowded chaotic feel!

      A quick painting i did trying to get the colour and layers that you see when looking at pictures of slums. abouve is the first monoprint i did of the slums.

     







I then worked back into my monoprints with my drypoints.