Final Steps For "Rejected"

This is the steps that i make my artwork for first assignment, "Visual Expression" :

the materials

i glue the nails on the wooden board 

 using shalex 

final artwork

ARTIST STATEMENT

My title for the first assignment, “Visual Expression” is Rejected. So many things I can describe as “rejected” such as when someone was rejected by the person he/she loves before, when the boss rejected proposal of his/her employee  in front of other staff and also when artworks of student was rejected by the lecturer. It feels bad right? We will feel disappointed, upset, angry, depressed and other negative feelings. The message that I want to tell is we have to be strong, persevere and determined even tough we faced a lot of problems and rejected in daily life.

ARTWORK TREATEMENT

For my artwork, I used materials such as nails, wooden board, Bostik glue, balloon, a row of long wooden light, shalex and small brush. First thing, I booked a 10x10 inch from wooden as the base for my artwork. Second step, I bought a lot of nails. Random size which is I used small, medium, and longer nails. I glue the nails with Bostik glue on wooden board and I put it on random place. After finished it, I shalex on the wooden board using small brush. Next step, I cutted a bit a row of long wooden light as a pole to attach the balloon and then I hang the ballon in the pier. Next, I put a pieces of balloon that has exploded on the part of the nail. So overall, my artwork is about the feelings when we rejected. The nails represented as a subject or the person those who reject our works, love or something else. I used a balloon to represented as the heart and the red of balloon colour as a colour of the heart. While I used the pieces of balloon that has exploded to show that is apparently how we feel when we are rejected. The hanging red balloon represented as the heart or feelings of person will be rejected. I just put the red balloon swinging at the corner of wooden board to show nervousness and rumbling when a condition that is likely we will be rejected. 

The Fighter

I think this song relevant to the my situation which is i have to finish up this assignment. This song also suitable for my theme of first assignment, "Rejected". So we need to get up and don't give up on whatever we do. 

Just waking up in the morning
And to be well,
Quite honest with ya,
I ain't really sleep well
Ya ever feel like your train of thought's been derailed?
That's when you press on - Lee nails
Half the population's just waitin to see me fail
Yeah right, you're better off trying to freeze hell
Some of us do it for the females
And others do it for the retail

But I do it for the kids, life threw the towel in on
Every time you fall it's only making your chin strong
And I'll be in your corner like Mick, baby, 'til the end
Or when you hear a song from that big lady

[Bridge]
Until the referee rings the bell
Until both your eyes start to swell
Until the crowd goes home
What we gonna do ya'll?

[Chorus - Ryan Tedder]
Give em hell, turn their heads
Gonna live life 'til we're dead.
Give me scars, give me pain
Then they'll say to me, say to me, say to me
There goes the fighter, there goes the fighter
Here comes the fighter
That's what they'll say to me, say to me, say to me,
This one's a fighter

[Verse 2]
And if I can last thirty rounds
There's no reason you should ever have your head down
Six foot five, two hundred and twenty pounds
Hailing from rock bottom, loserville, nothing town

Text book version of a kid going nowhere fast
And now I'm yelling, "Kiss my ass"
It's gonna take a couple right hooks, a few left jabs
For you to recognize you really ain't got it bad

[Bridge]
Until the referee rings the bell
Until both your eyes start to swell
Until the crowd goes home
What we gonna do ya'll?

[Chorus - Ryan Tedder]
Give em hell, turn their heads
Gonna live life 'til we're dead.
Give me scars, give me pain
Then they'll say to me, say to me, say to me
There goes the fighter, there goes the fighter
Here comes the fighter
That's what they'll say to me, say to me, say to me,
This one's a fighter

Everybody put yo hands up
What we gonna do (hey!) [x4] y'all?
What we gonna do (hey!) [x3] y'all?

If you fall pick yourself up off the floor (get up)
And when your bones can't take no more (c'mon)
Just remember what you're here for
Cuz I know Imma damn sure

Give em hell, turn their heads
Gonna live life 'til we're dead.
Give me scars, give me pain
Then they'll say to me, say to me, say to me
There goes the fighter, there goes the fighter
Here comes the fighter
That's what they'll say to me, say to me, say to me,
This one's a fighter

'Til the referee rings the bell
'Til both ya eyes start to swell
'Til the crowd goes home,
What we gonna do kid?

Sketch And Ideas

This is some of my sketch for my first assignment.

mind map

first sketch 

final sketch

Cancelled Idea

Basically, i had three idea for do this first assignment. The first idea is about "Say No To Racist". My second idea is about "Survive" and the last one is about "Rejected". I already consulted my ideas with Mr.Badrul and he approved it these three ideas. Actually for my first and second idea, i want do it a sculpture from wax. Why i want do a sculpture from wax? Because people rarely do a sculpture from wax especially for the students so i took the challenged and i wanna look something different on my artwork but unfortunately i had to cancel it because i can't found the places that can make a hand sculpture made of wax. This is my rough sketch for the first and second idea:

First Assignment Briefing

This first assignment briefing was given by Mr.Badrul and Dr.Forest on 13th June 2012. The title of our first assignment is "Visual Expression". Mr Badrul already talked about what we're supposed to do on the first assignment and he don't want us to think as a normal students. He want us to think outside the box to get new ideas and something unique from our artworks. This is our first assignment briefing paper:

References

I made some research about what i'm gonna to do for my first assignment which is about "Visual Expression". I was thinking to make a sculpture or to make a sense of icons to convey the meaning of "Rejected". This is part of the picture as my related digital references due to my first assignment : 

Introductions

Assalamualaikum and hello everyone. My name is Ahmad Anwar Bin Saadon. I'm a students of Bachelor of Multimedia (Hons) Media Arts from Multimedia University, Cyberjaya. I created this blog is due to Media Arts Design assignments. Basically, i will post all of the information about my assignments for this subject.