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Andrea Dezso is an artist and writer since 1996 who works a cross a wide range of medias including drawings, sculpture animation and large-scale public art. as an artist in his early career he’d finished arts school where he’d had to completely change his art style to fit the art worlds structure .once he’d left he realized he couldn’t produce the work he wanted with these skills and tried to go back to how he used to draw . . “The process of unlearning was not easy. It was especially difficult not to judge myself by the learned criteria and just let go. It took years until I taught myself to trust my instincts. Now I can draw again the way I like it. I don’t think while I do it” –Andrea Dezso

 Dezro embrioded a load of her mother sayings onto piece of fabric and arrayed them along the walls of a maze like corridor. Each of these small-included pieces includes neatly stitched diagrams and begins with the statement “My mother claimed that…” followed by a different ending to the sentence on each piece of fabric for a different saying of her mothers. They’d also include a small diagram of here saying sound in the fabric .the sayings symbolize how your parents tell u lies as kids to put you on the right track in life

 The artist has created a sense of humour with his artwork using funny sentences and simple drawings, which is what brought this piece to my attention. There’s no real variety with space of pattern as all the drawing are drawn to the same simple style and the lettering is also formatted the same in each fabric square. The composition also reminds me of text books at school and as the mother would tell him these lies to teach him not to do certain things this formats rather fitting. The childlike simple feel to work is created with its primary colour scheme and its basic composition. This all relates to the subject matter of childhood memories

To resolve the problem we had the first time we split into two groups for this piece .We wanted to keep to a constant paten so we choose the work that had similar lines to each other. This meant that we could connect them together to create a pattern with the lines .we began by joining up all the sheets together so each line joined up with another which started to create a spontaneous pattern where the lines circle of from the center black sheet. Coincidently to do this we ended up only using painted work rather than the other chalk sheets.

 We created the focal point by keeping to only two type of paper other than at the centre of our piece where all the lines begin there’s a black sheet .the difference In colour highlights that sheet making it the focal point of the composition. Because of the size of and shape of this drawing Depending on what angle u look at this drawing the composition can perceive to look different.

 The amount of negative space decreases the closer to centre you look: this makes the focal point feel more intense than its surroundings.

 If I where to improve this piece the overall shape the paper makes would be the first thing I change  .for example instead of the scattered shape my group made the other group created a circle with there paper. If we did think about the shape then the pattern would have looked a lot more impressive

As a group we collaborated   all work the classmates work from the previous lesson into one big composition. The trouble with this was that there where to many people and sheets of work to organize an art piece in the time provided therefore the result was that the composition looks messy and random. The group then tried to abstract it by taking photos of zoomed in sections .I liked the repetitive line patents in the shapes of these drawings