Almanaqk

Record Collection

"Stay Way"is a group of 3 people which are playing together for more the 8 years, it is a punk rock band, trying to keep the punk culture alive back in Brazil. We grown up all together, I used to go in the concerts which they were paying with them own money. So those images are picture that I've manipulated to create my record collection. That is my collection!

Alpha-bet

Inspire by Sao Paulo street tags (pixaçao). The style is different, it is nothing similar to the normal tags you see. They create different fonts and than make lot of change in the format, normally really complicate to understand. There is quality in the letters, it is really inspire the people which like to develop new fonts.

Rhythm & Rhyme

THE MiSSiNG KNiFE- Mauricio Fonseca

Sketch by Mauricio Fonseca. Pencil on cardboard paper.


In the sketch we can see there are only 4 knives on the knife block, which I did on purpose. One knife is missing from the block. This reflects that a crime could be happening or someone is cooking.

My purpose is to show the crime itself, how the knives are present to our lives, if it is for cooking or killing each other.

I try to use a kitsch object to relate to a fundamental prerequisite; to express all the availability of cultural traditions, which contain all those values that kitsch can draw on. The knife block is present in our kitchen and knives are everywhere.

Part2

Collage by Mauricio Fonseca
Collagen over cardboard paper
Photography

I had started by thinking how could I transform the sketch to a 3-dimensional effect, to try to give more emphasis to my image. By doing that, I found a really interesting way to accomplish the effect I wanted. I cut some pieces of colour sheet board and some pieces of colour paper to present the effect I wanted in the objects.
I made this collage with 3 colours; blue, red and yellow - the basic, primary colours.

The blue keeps the focus on the image, a shock of a missing knife.

The red one reflects the blood.

The yellow indicates respect and the values of humanity. Human being.

I had kept to shapes of the Sketch, and added a background using blue paper in the format of an explosion to bring focus to the image.

3 part

Collage by
Mauricio
Fonseca


Photography of the object manipulated in Photoshop.

In this image we can see 9 different background colors.

I started putting the collage over different sheet of colorful paper,

paper to match with the colors of the original collage.

As I used a photograph in each sheet of paper, I could work with them in the computer. Working in Photoshop I put the entire image together as we can see above. I wanted to have the same representational colors of Pop Art, making the image to highlight the collage.

The Missing Knife

The Missing Knife by Mauricio Fonseca

Photoshop filters.

A part which most interesting me is the Pop Art movement, which began in London during the 1950’s, but appears en mass to the world in 1954, when British critic Lawrence Alloway coined the term, which designed the product of pop culture of the Western civilization, based around the United States.

Some artists started to study the symbols and products and titles of advertising in United Estates and Great Britain in their paintings. They used it to represent the most ostensive components of pop culture, with a strong influence in the quotidian life, image and objects seen everyday live. This was figurative art opposing Abstract Expressionism, which was a important influences on the aesthetic scene at that time, at the end of Second World War. The iconography of Pop Art is of the television, photography, comics, the cinema and advertising.

My The Missing Knife work appeared to me after series of crimes involving gangs in London, which, where respect was one of the main factors behind these deaths. A use of the most ordinary implement; a knife, let me think about the way that society is now. During this time I was in a store and I saw a really cheap knife, which I wanted to buy. The till woman asked me about my age and she want to see my I.D., and at the till beside me was a guy buying the same knife but was not asked for I.D.. He was he was dress like a gang member. That got me really angry, I could not stop thinking about knives for a while. So I decide to complete a work that could I express myself against this.

I did a series of drawings for one of my project; I completed different sketches of images from a catalogue. I had illustrated a wooden knife block, with a 5-piece knife set. This image related with I was thinking in that time, so I decided to work with this image to its natural progression.

We can see that the collages in these images are a bit different to each other. There are two similar collages and two with movements.

The images as we can see are dividing in colours and collage. The collages are working with movements to keep the attention to the images.

The ones at the bottom, the collage is side by side and stays still, this gives the reflection to the ones at the top that are different to each other.

The one over the green is smaller to the one over the orange, I tried to use a 3-dimention and have each of them in a different size.

I did that to see how it would work, giving movement to the images. After trying this, I realised that the collages on the top could represent the movement itself, jumping from the others.

We can see green, purple, red and orange those are the ones, which I believe that could work better with my collage.

The green colour is the point that breaks the light in the others colours, we can see the tranquillity and compassion.

The orange is the evil flame, mystifying sin, bringing up the collagen, which could represent the angry.

The red colour is a representative of blood and love.

The purple is the conflict with the green, it relates with red and orange.

I used photography to develop my artwork, giving a different aspect to each background. When you use photography as technique to the image, you have a different aspect to the photo, like we can see in The Missing Knife, each photo has a different background effect. The are all-burning up, this effect I got from the photography.

Using Photoshop filters I manipulated every single image before put everything together. Trying to expose the knife block and giving the background a 3-dimension effect. The 4 colours together can give a really strong point in the middle of the image, We can see a triangle in the middle of the image, that could be coming out or going deep.

This artwork could represents the pop art movement, by showing a common object, with the colours and for the historical contest, which is happing now. We could say that is a good example of the pop art movement.

Dream Dictionary

“Dream Dictionary” was a project in which I was asking to make a book about dreams, in relation to crazy ideas to represent a dream.
So the first image, which came into my mind, is the actual cover for this book that relates the dream with life.
The others images are about the meaning of the dreams. I had different ideas, but I thought using the simple drawing could help me to express more the meanings of the dreams, like a fantasy.
I have illustrated these dreams with my own interpretation. I closed my eyes and I started to think about the words that I had read in the Dream Dictionary, so I sketched anything that came into my mind in those minutes.

Life.



Ex-king constantine of greece: You will lose the respect of a family member.



Andy Warhol: You will be famous.



MTV: You will be happy, friends will be honest and true.



Carpet Burns: Domestic violence, danger at close quarters.



Dishwasher: You will receive a letter.




Badreams.



A dream of breast implants predicts good luck to come.

What are you like?

Impressions of London

London Hard Core Life.
This project is about some of the places that I lived in the past and how difficult was for me to pay rent. In the photo you will see some flats that I had squat because I didn't have money for anything.
The photo above is about the first place that I lived in London. This is the way back home. I remember how hard it was to come back home after spending my day looking for jobs ( without being able to speak any English ) and having nothing to eat, it was quite stressful time.
The photos are in black and white because these are the colours of London. A old city and in some way sad too in the winter. But one of the best city in world once you figure it out.




like the trees in the winter.
I just makes me feel colder than never!!




My first pick-nick.




The way to the bus stop.




Places in London that I really like. I love the dark places that you can just find losing yourself.




These are more pictures from the places I lived when I moved to London. I lived in the 4 flats that you can see with iron doors, one after the other.




The ghost Building..




This is one of the builds that I squat in London. In one of the flats in this building , I saw a ghost. When I was trying to open a flat I saw this old woman standing by the window. It was so scary, that I jumped from the second floor without even think about.

Photographer's Signature

Andy Goldsworthy






http://www.sculpture.org.uk/biography/AndyGoldsworthy/

Myth project

"Medusa"