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It was our second day in CSM.

We were asked to get any kind of object with us today as well as a historical image and a picture of a space, that somehow related to the ISM we worked on yesterday.

Today was an intensive drawing day.

In the morning we did a small session called “EXPRESSIVE DRAWING”. In this session, we were asked to visually interpret the object we got with us, using only marks and no lines. It was a great way to start off the day as it was challenging to demonstrate an object expressively but challenges excite me and make me want to push harder to achieve the task so I found a way to make it fun. I think that it was a great idea to start with a drawing process. It made us concentrate on the techniques of drawing that later on helped us visualize our idea because we already knew how to visualize our object, we just had to think of a way to express its forms and textures.

After that, we were asked to draw the same object from the side, the top and the bottom. It was a simple life drawing session that I found very pleasing.

Later on, we were asked to cut out a small window from an A5 paper in order to make a tight crop of our object and draw it from different angles. This task was given to us in order for us to learn how to focus on the materiality of our object and how to communicate the texture. This task helped us focus on the abstraction of our object, showing only its strong texture and form.

In the afternoon, we moved on to a different work:

We were asked to enrich our historical image using our drawing techniques to visualize and idea from Monday. We were asked to focus on adding life and meaning to our found image.

My historical image was the cover of a book called “UTOPIA” written by SIR THOMAS MORE. I chose this cover because it combined all three of my elements:

My ISM, WATER AND EXPAND.

I visualized on of my ideas from Monday adding elements to the book cover.

I liked working on this because nothing too specific was asked from us so we had the freedom to play and have fun with our work.

The final task of the day included using the image of “space” we had with us:

We had to “situate” an idea from Monday in that space.

For the “space”, I chose an image of the inside of a hotel in Cannes, France called “PALAIS BULLES” because this house’s architecture is known to be a “utopian” architecture as in very surreal and unrealistic, almost perfect.

Today was a good day, I liked the way the teacher approached the ideas to us, the way he explained them. The environment in class was motivating. We somehow always try to make each other feel comfortable expressing our ideas.

DAY 2

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