‘Time’ Project Research: Alexis Diaz

Alexis Diaz is a Puerto Rico-based artist specializing in mural urban work. He creates the hybrid animals made from different animals, his works are very inspiring and similar to my collages. I really like how he has combined the realism of the animal parts with the abstract collage way of working and combining the animal parts.

‘Time’ Project: Hybrid Collages 2

Today I made some more collages

‘Time’ Project: Hybrid Collages

Today I experimented with collage in creating these hybrid futuristic animals

‘Time’ Project: Collage ideas

I am going to take inspiration from the hybrid animals and from Geoffrey Farmer’s works and create some collages of animals created from different animal parts.

We have seen that some Prehistoric animals look like they are a hybrid, look like they are made from more than one animal so these collages will represent animals in the future, showing how evolution will develop in the future.

I will make up animals showing how they have developed in time in the future.

‘Time’ Project research: Geoffrey Farmer

Geoffrey Farmer was born 1967 in Eagle Island, British Columbia. He is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver. Farmer studied in Vancouver and the San Francisco Art Institute. He is represented by the Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.

Developed over a three-year period, Geoffrey Farmer’s ‘The Surgeon and the Photographer’ is shown for the first time in its completed form for its UK premiere. The work consists of hundreds of puppet-like figures, composed of images cut from old books and magazines mounted onto fabric forms, and is accompanied by a new film commission. His work blends the collage and assemblage traditions of Hannah Höch and Robert Rauschenberg.

He created these figures with a splice looking technique, the figures look like hybrids

‘Time’ Project: Spliced/ Hybrid animals

The flightless bird from the previous post I did made me think. It was like a blend of two animals to create one whole animal, Eagle and Ostrich, blending more than one animal together is known as splicing and the end animal is known as a hybrid. I really find this idea interesting so I looked into it and actually found some pictures made by putting together different parts of photographs from animals. The artist that made these is known as ‘Mad Scientist’

I really like these images, some of them work really well and even look like animals that could have existed in the prehistoric period.

‘Time’ Project: Prehistoric Birds/Modern Birds

I have noticed that birds are one of the main animals which changed and altered the most during evolution but at the same time they kept the same characteristics.

This Prehistoric flightless bird looks like it is part Eagle, part Ostrich. It has the head of a Eagle and the body of an Ostrich, it is like a blend of the two birds combined into one animal; it shows how things such as the beak on this prehistoric bird is still evident today on Eagles.

This small flying bird has wings and feathers just like all flying birds nowdays.

This may not be classified as a bird but this Pterodactyl has bat like features. You can see that the wings look very exactly like the wings of bats nowadays, even the body looks bat like.

‘Time’ Project: Layout and composition of birds

You can see on this time scale I created how birds have changed during evolution.

It seems that they went from being flightless to learning flight from the growth of the wings during evolution.

These would make great images for a series; as unlike the dragonfly or great white shark, size wasn’t the only main change.

‘Time’ Project: Composition Paintings

I painted some close up sections of the main parts of  a Dragonfly, showing how I can use different parts of the dragonfly and use them to scale to show the changes through evolution.

‘Time’ Project: Composition for series

I have been experimenting with actually not only the layout for the series but the actual composition of what will be in the series. Here is an idea-

Here I have just two images laid out like how I decided in my previous post, except instead of a whole animal it is just showing a comparison between a part of the animal. I think that showing the main or best known part of the animal rather than the whole animal is a more interesting way of showing a comparison. For example here I am showing a tooth from the ‘Megalodon’ which was a prehistoric great white shark, comparing it to a modern day great white shark. It is very striking just using the tooth to show how the shark changed through time, it is as if you do not need the whole sharks body to show a comparison, you can use your imagination to just picture the size difference between both periods. This is a very effective way of showing evolution.