Cycle of Abuse

Here I decided to look into the Cycle of abuse because I think it is interesting to see the reason why people are abusive. Sometimes this is not noticed and when people commit a crime it often leaves others feeling confused and upset and angry. I think it would be interesting to interview people in a prisson and find out the reasons behind why they have decided to commit an act of crime. I could also record them and re create a room that looks like a prisson and play these recordings out so that the viewers would actualyfeel like they have walked into a prisson and are collecting first hand evidence of the reasons behind the crimes.

The Menstrual Cycle

This picture here shows the insides of a womens body and a way of visualy recording this. The inside of a body is a constant Cycle because it is constantly working and blood is constantly flowing without us even noticing it

A normal cycle is around 28 days, but a variation of a few days can be quite normal and variations from cycle to cycle is also normal. The cycle starts at the first day of bleeding and lasts the day before your next bleeding.

I looked at The Menstrual Cycle as a possible idea because this is the period of time that every woman would prefere not to experience and many see it as an unpleasent time. I thought that this would be interesting to record as it is not something that is usualy shared with others.

In order to record this I could;
- Make a flip book of a calender and put a star next to each date I start my period and this could show the consistancy or the irregular pattern and Cycle of my period

- I could make lots of videos of different women's blood in the toilet and I could display this in a small room and project lots of different videos playing at different times on all of the walls of women going to the toilet and changing tampons. This would create a disturbing and shocking effect and would make people who entered this room feel like they are intruding in their personal space and it would make the viewers feel uncomfortable. I could then also record lots of womes views of being on their periods and why they do not like it and how it makes them feel and play all of them at the same time to create a dramatic effect

I then decided to use watercolour as Tracey Emin does for her work on the menstrual cycle. Here is what the projected images on the wall would look like.

                                                                         

Here I have done a quick sketch to show what I would want this idea to look like if I displayed it in a room. I doubt that I would be able to carry this idea out becuase I would need to find a room and I would need to find a series of projectors. Also I would need to find a group of people who were willing to share this private information with me and anybody who visited the instillation.

 

- I could photograph lots of different womens facial expressions when they first experience starting their period

- I could make a questionaire and ask different women wether they believe that they should have to pay for tampons or wether it is their right to get them for free

 

I then made a copy of Tracey Emins paintings ^. I found it interesting to explore the depths of colour and the different marks.

 

 

Tracey Emin also uses the idea of the Menstrual Cycle in series of her work. She uses it in a griuesome way just like my idea above. Her work is disturbing to look at as it is intermate and revealing. I find her work extremely inspiring and I love the way that she produces sketches as if they are pages out of her personal diary.

Tracey Emin - my versions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gilbert+George Sarah Lozas and Kiki Smith

                                                                           Kiki Smith

                                                                      Gilbert+George

                                                                         Sarah Lozas



All of these images are from google images and they relate to my idea to do with the menstral cycle. I feel this because all of these artists display things that you would not expect to see and they all make you feel uncomfortable in simillar ways.

Movie clips off Youtube

I looked at 'The Ilusionist' as i love the annimation and i decided to poste this song because it incorporates lots of repetion wich links to the idea of 'Cycle'.

 

 

I looked at this film clip by Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi and I think that this shows an extremely good exapmple of a timelaps of natural and manmade. All of the images on here repreasents Cycle for example; the clouds moving, the people walking and the cars driving.

Money Cycle

Money is a Cycle that we all share and take part in it together. Money is passed around millions of people everyday through different situations such as; handing money over in a shop at a till, giving money to a friend or family member, paying for a taxi or a bus, eating out or buying a drink. Money is then passed back around maybe bye a shop owner whos giving change or by banks or exchanging money into euros for example. Because of money constantly being passed around to different people it is an extremely dirty Cycle. People may have dropped it on the floor in the past, put it in their mouths and on many more different surfaces. Money carries many germs and is continually passed around untill it gets destroyed if they bring out a new currency.

                         Here is a picture to show how the money Cycle works

Cycles of Life

The Human Life Cycle

 

 

From looking into The Cycle of Life I became inspired by the idea of natural transformations in nature. I decided that in order to develop this initial idea I was going to explore it from a different angle so I decided to look at the artifical means of transforming ourselves. I chose to explore make-up to show how we can transform and express emotions.

 

 

antony gormley

He is a sculptor and he often uses the human form

 

 

The Butterfly Life Cycle

 

 

 

The Life Cycle of a Frog 

 

 

The process that transforms a frog from water to land is called metamorphosis. Metamorphosis is the transformation from an egg into an adult. Frogs change from egg into an adult frog. Frogs go through four stages in their life: egg, tadpole, metamorph (froglet), and adult. This metamorphosis is also known as the frog's life cycle.

 

http://www.ourclassweb.com/webquests_frogs_tasks.htm

 

 

The Cycle of a Plant

 

Here is a video I found on youtube of a timelaps flower. I think it is amazing to speed up this process because normaly the growth of a flower is at such a slow speed that nobody realy appreciates or gets to see it develop. We usually only notice it from its origianl state to its final development.

 

 

 

A cycle is a pattern that repeats. There are a lot of cycles within the Earth system. You see cycles every day. In fact, the day is a cycle.
A day is the time it takes the Earth to make one complete spin on its axis. This cycle repeats about every 24 hours. In most parts of the world, each day is a cycle of light and darkness. Half of the day we face the sun. It is daytime then. The other half of the day we do not. It is nighttime then.
Below is a diagram of the cycle of a day. Four things happen during this cycle. Daytime, sunset, nighttime, and sunrise all happen during a day. In the diagram these four things are connected in a circle. They form a continuous loop. That is another way to think about cycles. Cycles are loops. They have no beginning. They have no ending. However, the parts of a cycle do happen in a certain order. For example, daytime comes before sunset. Sunset comes before nighttime. Nighttime comes before sunrise. Sunrise comes before daytime.

Cycles repeat over different lengths of time. Some cycles are very short. They do not take much time to repeat. Other cycles are very long. They take a lot of time to repeat. As mentioned above, the cycle of a day takes about 24 hours to complete. Another cycle you may know takes a whole year before it repeats. It is the cycle of the seasons. Seasons are patterns of weather changes. Many places in the world have four seasons. They have a hot and dry summer. Then it cools during the autumn. Then it gets cold during the winter. Then it gets warm and wet in the spring. After spring it is summer again. Below is a diagram of a cycle of seasons.

Living things go through cycles too. These cycles are called life cycles. Living things are born, live, then die. The length of the life cycle is different for each living thing. For example, some insects live for only a few days, while some trees live for hundreds of years.
Cycles also happen in each of Earth's spheres. For example, water changes among three physical forms, or phases. Water moves from Earth's surface to the air and back again as it changes form. Water can change from a liquid to a gas. When it does, it moves from Earth's surface to the air. Water can also change from a gas to a liquid or a solid. Liquid and solid water become too heavy to stay in the air. They fall from the air to Earth's surface. This movement of water is a repeating pattern. It is called the water cycle. Temperature drives the water cycle. Changes in temperature cause water to change its form. Temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius cause liquid water to freeze into a solid. Solid water is called ice. At temperatures between 0 C and 100 C, ice melts to form liquid water. Temperatures above 100 C cause liquid water to become a gas. The gas is called water vapor.

Many cycles on Earth are related to each other. Related cycles connect Earth's spheres. For example, the cycle of seasons is often related to the life cycle of plants. These related cycles connect Earth's living things with its air and water. As seasons change, so do the temperature and amount of water available to a plant. Temperature and the amount of water available affect plant growth. That is how the life cycle of plants is connected to the cycle of seasons. Below is a diagram of this connection.

                                        http://ete.cet.edu/modules/k4/earth/Eoverview3.html