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Please feel free to critique my little effort typography for the details of the assemblage...

latest photos, post photo session

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chess!!!!!

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Here are my latest chess designs.. i just realised that i need to move one of the tiles up to the top right hand corner..... also the difference between these photos is that the top photo has text circles from Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde under the pieces, whereas the bottom has the same cogs from the image on the board. Also you cant see it well in the shots but each side (left and right) of the box has a drawer handle... a small wooden one and  a metal more decorative one

almost there!!!

new text approach?!

looking to combine traditional and a more modern take... the cream bg will be from paper stock, not  colour on white.. just to give an idea.. also... type has not been typeset so dont gasp!

The wonderful Louise suggested i put a mirror at one end of the board, and i think its a great idea!!!

so im now trying that out!!!

chess!!!!!

I have officially exhausted this chess analogy.. ive been trying to somehow show the notion of being in 2 minds, playing mind game with yourself, and swinging from different points of views through the placement of chess pieces. Most of the placements came across as competitive like a battle. I think the nature of the chess game was too strong compared to my placements. So i decided to add my element of text through these lovely old scrabble tiles.. DOES IT WORK?!?!?!

Here is the sonnet:

So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found;
Now proud as an enjoyer and anon
Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure,
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure;
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight
And by and by clean starved for a look;
Possessing or pursuing no delight,
Save what is had or must from you be took.
Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,
Or gluttoning on all, or all away.

After looking at it... its way too simple... damn

text ideas?

final!! yay!!!

This is the final piece, but will probably go with the cotton through the heart as suggested... not weird at all, totally awesome.

Also, have spot coloured the bees, not too easy to see, but i like that.... also love the tungsten...

changes made to this test was the make the lady in the centre larger.

Im trying to figure how i can add the stitching I had planned to.. i tried a bit but its quite overpowering....

More experiments with text

Also, still awaiting delivery of ridiculously expensive bell jar ..

type experiments!!

Here i was working with the initial idea i had about circling the text and drawing connecting lines. I also tried with the dotted lines but i feel its too busy. Even with dots it still distracted from the text.

These are experiments with the placement of the time related words within the sonnet. I then visualised this as a series of circles. Not sure what im totally doing with these, but im looking for a way to visually communicate the time related words within each sonnet and to also evoke a sense of time, cycles. I also still like the idea of old astronomy maps.

These are also more experiments with visually representing the time related words within each Sonnet. The first 3 I didnt really find very appealing. The next 2 I connected the words with lines to a consistent point and then from this spray of lines i formed a circle. As shown, the more time related words present in the Sonnet, the more complex the circle.

The last part of my experiments I found to be the most visually appealing. I created each Sonnet's own constellation. I tried initially with placing dots above relevant words, then connecting them in one strand. I then took each strand and placed it into a circle. In the second part I connected each dot to form a closed shape and then placed these in a circle. Hence forming their own constellations.

Sonnet {98}- cont..

Series of images to be placed behind the box

Placement of images with box

How each photo will be placed in box- pinned to a board with a circle of text (consistent with other assemblages. Also this text is from an old photographic process booklet, hence works with the photos) also with a small circle of floral fabric to tie into the fabric of the box

Sonnet {30}

Above are images of my assemblage for Sonnet 30. Im still thinking how to improve this one, it seems a little bare. Inside the box I have an image of the old fashioned countdown to a film, on frame number '10', and the numbers along the side are reference numbers to where within the sonnet the word 'time' or time related words are found, e.g.  30.02.12= Sonnet 30. Line 02. Word 12