Cornish light exhibition, Animations and Poetry

A couple of weeks ago the Illuminate group visited the "Cornish Light" exhibition at Nottingham Museums and Galleries. Whilst there we created a series of haiku's in small groups as well as one long poem inspired by the work "Ocean" by Natasha Daintry.

This week we created simple stop frame animations to go with our poems.

We started by playing with different materials to see how they might work. Each group was given a materials and a word as a prompt.

They were
Plasticine : rain
Drawn: waves
Cut out: ripples

Here are our experiments...





Waves from Illuminate on Vimeo.


Cornish Light Animation from Illuminate on Vimeo.

and the final pieces...

Natasha Daintry
OCEAN

I’m working late in the office, I’ve had no sleep, why does this tally chart look like I’ve taken something?

An undulating tidal flow moving from a rainbow to white foam and back again

Ceramic ripples across the colour spectrum

Pain on the barefoot as pebble obstacles hamper my descent to the weightless ocean

Strong lungs- pull in and out

The wave crashed into colour then ceased

Whooshing waves, red, blue, green, swirling and circling. Drifting and shifting, back and forth

With tonality of colour, fall and rise

Low is high, nothing is everything

The rise and fall of muted colours, surge together

ocean from Illuminate on Vimeo.