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Louisa Thomson, Drawn From the City

Month: February 2021

Exploring the World of Coffee

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On 28th February 2021

In making and breaking narrative

I’ve chosen to research coffee for this project as it’s something that’s very much part of my daily routine and is an important thing to me. Not only is coffee something that features in my life everyday,  it is also something that I associate with my family and being with them.

I am interested in the part coffee plays in society, “how do you have your coffee?” is a common question to be asked and upon meeting a friend, old or new, “do you want to grab a coffee?” is an immediate response to polite introductory small talk. It is something that brings people together and I’d like to explore this through a series of illustrations and photographs.

Illustration of the ‘Coffee Belt’ of the world paired with coffee visual research.

Coffee percolator still lives.

Coffee pot still lives.

Still life and line drawing

Continuous line drawings

Coffee bean illustration

Coffee bean illustration

All coffee visual research

cof·fee /ˈkôfē,ˈkäfē/  noun  The berries harvested from species of Coffea plants.

Final Outcome

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On 8th February 2021

In found object

This project was to investigate how an artistic tool could become the artwork through deconstruction and reconstruction. These final photographs were exploring the kind of movement that could be achieved by the handling of paintbrush fragments. I think they capture the beauty in chaos and demonstrate the progression of disorder to calm, and that this journey is often as powerful as a finished piece.

Removing the Function

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On 1st February 2021

In found object

This week, I continued to play with the idea of deconstruction and started making collages made up of different paintbrushes. I’ve also began doing some continuous line drawings of each layout I arranged which give me ideas from the different shapes I see within the drawings. While holding the pieces of paintbrush in my hands, I noticed the satisfying sound they made when shaken so I’d like to see what I could do with that sound, maybe creating a video with that as the audio.

 

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