Emma Jordan
FUTURE PROJECTS
Research Festival
For the Research Festival, I will be contributing with a book-style publication series of the visual languages I have created through the methods I've developed since September 2023. I intend on having three thin books, and one coffee table style book of all three collections in one edition. Each issue focusses on a material quality or concept that I have found integral to my practice this year.
Design mock-ups and variations (above) colour of sketch not indicative of cover colour
This book will also have a box-style sleeve/case that has been wrapped in a polyethylene covering, that has been treated by one of the repetitive processes explored this year, for example the punctures or burns. I will have multiple copies so that I have a version that is completely image based with the cover sleeve printed with the title and another with an additional sleeve made from the textured piece, leaving space for the title a layer below. the box in which they will reside will also be treated in the textures I have explored and cleanly collect the books into a series.
Design mock-ups and variations for the box style and possible display (above) colour of sketch not indicative of cover colour
Studio Plans
I am in the process of developing my next project informed by the previous use of polyethylene and steel, where I can further push the materiality and repetitive processes from term III. '2511' from the summer show had included the term II '2448' sheet in a layering fashion which I feel contributes to emotional and psychological happenings in processing trauma, where compiling experiences, events, and feelings can become one massive conglomerate to be digested all at once rather than piece by piece or layer by layer. It enforces a hidden context only only felt in full by the individual who is experiencing the accumulation of events, and is only partially viewable by outside entities.
As noted in the 'Summer Show 2024' section in 'Professional Practices', viewers were gently climbing in behind my work to see the layers from the side, and gain a different perspective. I feel it is necessary to engage with this reaction further, and to develop a piece that provides the alternative perspective that many were trying to identify. I was the one who would have the deeper understanding of the layers, and the visitors to the show were the outside entities that were investigating it.
To build upon the layering further, I intend to produce additional layers of polyethylene that will become the next stage in this work, extending the time-based application, the variety of mark-making treatments, and shift the presentation for a third orientation. The work began scroll-like, became stretched flat, and will now introduce a side facing interpretation allowing viewers to see the inside of the layers, and where they connect to each other, or remain their individual faces. This will create another alternative form of viewing each experience as it compiles together, and introduces an additional and dramatic form of hanging, which I felt was more successful for the work. The purpose of this piece is to further instigate how intricate this materiality can get under the frame work of psychological experiencing, and to prepare my practice for the eventuality of mass-scale installation works.
It will be named the date it is finished, and continue as a piece in reference to this family of works.
Below are preliminary thoughts/plans and renderings.
