Judie Balagot

These are some of the photos that I admired the most from Wolfgang Tillmans. I love the two images shown above of a flower and a close of a neck as a ‘set’ as the juxtapose each other in size but both create a feeling of delicateness and fragile-ness.  And they also have similar tones in terms of colour. I also liked the image of a fly on crab shells, it looks disgusting in a way but beautiful at the same time. The images of the ocean and the sea creates a calming and tranquility vibe, and it feels home to me as I grew up near the sea.

Richard Aldrich

Walking into the wide and well lit exhibition space, the first thing that I was drawn to was this portrait shown on the right (above) titled ‘Stranger in a Strangeland’ because it had more details and depth compared to the other works like the one on the left (above). They are both minimal but the ‘Stranger in a Strangeland’ makes you look at it for longer, more in detail. These canvases are really big with a lot of negative spaces.
David Salle

Above is close up image of ‘Dean Martin in “Same Lame Running”‘ and it was the first thing that I saw that stood out to me the most because of the contrast between the dark portrait image and the light coloured painting around it. I was also drawn to the detail of her face and hands of where the shadow and highlight sits.

David Brian Smith

Unlike the spaces for the other artists at Saatchi Gallery, the room for David Brian Smith was a little gloomy compared to other spaces but it works well with his neon/pastel coloured paintings. It gives a little contrast. Also, being in the darkly lit exhibition, the painting gives light to the room. Immersing yourself while looking at the painting, as if you’re right there – part of the painting.

Inspired by Heitor Magno, I did a self-portrait shoot and used them to create these ‘glitched’ edits. I added colour onto my face first before pixelating it so that I can have coloured pixelated blocks like Magno’s work. Also using blurred effects and 3D effects. I also played around with effects on photoshop to see what kind of ‘glitch’ effects I could use for other edits.

Heitor Magno is a photographer well known for his surreal double-exposure self portraits. Using manipulation on his images, often on his face like the images shown above. He incorporates glitch-like effects to convey emotions.

This was originally Jesse Treece inspired lanscape but I added in a floating ‘crystal-like’ geometric stone which is very reminiscent to Hvass & Hannibals’ editorial for Monki Magazine. I made it by cutting out triangles from anything blue coloured image I found.

Looking at Jesse Treece’s collages, I picked up his landscape collages that looks surreal and imaginative and used that idea to make my own collage. Creating my own landscapes of mountains. I had fun making these as I can get creative with it, had to create shapes that looks like mountains because I didn’t have much landscape images in the magazines I used to create these.

Above are typefaces I designed by hand for my zine which will be called ‘Glitch’. First one is just a simple design, neat and clean which is easy to read while the others are a little harder to read. The middle one, if I didn’t add a black outline of the letters it’ll be way too hard to read because it blended well with the RGB coloured background. The last one I took the word ‘Glitch’ and made it to make it look like it’s literal meaning which I enjoyed doing because you can’t go wrong with it at all – imperfection is key.

Below are the typefaces that I scanned and re-editing it. For example, I sliced the word ‘GLITCH’ in two and stuck them together and purposely not aligned it – again taking it’s literal meaning of ‘glitch’.