In the first week we started going on cultural trips as a large group. We visited the Jumeirah Mosque, the Sharjah Museums of Art and Architecture, and the Shelter, an art gallery/cafe where we worked with artist Ebon Heath on his newest typographical sculpture instillation. These are some pictures from those trips.
"Jumeirah Mosque"
"Sharjah Museums of Art and Architecture"
"@ Shelter"
On day 3,we met Ebon Heath(Brooklyn Artist) and Mona Ibrahim (a Dubai- based Jewelery designer) to assist them with their collaborative installation for stereo.type exhibition that was going to be held @ 50°c , Souq Albahar. The installation was basically a typographic hanging sculpture of laser-cut papers that created sentences from different languages when put together. Ebon briefed us a bit about his work at first and told us about his vision ,which was "Listening with your eyes" versus "listening with your ears" a concept that he repeatedly used in his work.
These experiences gave us inspiration to start talking about and creating our artwork and the concepts behind it. By sharing these experiences we have been able to find common ground. It was a great starting point to begin swapping our own opinions and thoughts because we felt much more comfortable around each other.
As a homework assignment, we were told to extract patterns from our own pictures or sketches and create a digital file from which to screenprint. We used Emily's pattern- an ornate trim from the walls of the mosque and printed them onto wooden panels that we had painted on a previous studio day. We documented our first screenprinting experience.
From here we have started to explore other methods of printmaking as well as think about our concept and our vehicle. Recently we have started to talk about the idea of smaller wood panels as interactive trading or playing cards on which we will print a logo on one side, illustrations, and textual examples of culture on the opposite side. We hope to have a clearer concept soon.
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