Author: Jade

This was a very fun exercise. I was put in a group with 3 other girls from Toru. That was great because we were all meant to be in studio that day but we got to work together online. We met via video call and gave each other a brief introduction and a rundown of our preferred art medium. I won’t lie it was difficult to figure out how to collaborate together over video call and group texting. We couldn’t put our work together to compare and figuring out how to combine it online.

We all came to a common interest in bright colours and decided to pick a selection from the colour wheel. We then decided to go off and begin to create our art and meet every hour to check in and send photos. I wanted to try something different, my colours were yellow/orange, and I had noticed a fair about of leaves and flowers turning orange and yellow. I collected as much as I could and explored different ways to layer them, create different shapes. I have never worked with leaves and flowers in physical art before. It was truly a new experience and it was fun exploring a new way of creating art.

It was a lot of fun creating our different pieces and seeing how each of them came together. I really liked working with the girls, even under the difficult circumstances.

Welcome to my first blog post! Sorry the delay unfortunately I had been hit with a nasty dose of covid, but luckily I am better and ready to smash out my first blog post!

Iterative making was something I had never heard of before. I didn’t really understand the assignment, it took a while to try wrap me head around the task. I decided to focus on the themes of multiplicity, repetition and difference, and use each one as a focus for each body of work. My first instinct was to brainstorm but after listening to the lecturers and hearing that they wanted us to flow with our ideas and see where they lead us, I decided to try this. I hadn’t done this much creatively before, so I was excited to see what I come up with. Photography is my chosen medium, so I wanted to apply iterative making with my photography.

The first thing that came into my mind was these small green peppers we grow in my back yard. Where could this simple vegetable take me? I began with coloured card as a background, and photographed 10 different green peppers. I was starting to think how could I progress from here I decided to explore patterns and multiplicity, I changed backgrounds by switching to cooks books. I wanted to show the variety a green pepper could belong, from the cook books I went back to where the green peppers came from, the garden. For the final work, I took the same green pepper and photographed it against multiple plant backgrounds from my garden.

I enjoyed creating these three works. A green pepper hasn’t been a subject I have worked with before, But while creating these bodies of work, I really embraced going with the flow and seeing where each idea takes me.