Ife Akinroyeje Graphics: 9 May 2012

This is my final piece. I created ten jar each representing me and people in some way, making it a piece of self-portraiture. Each jar shows things I have encountered and experienced in dreams and created these jars to illustrate my personality in a different way. This idea of jar art was not my original idea, but as I developed and began to research, I found an artist called Joseph Cornell (click here to see more about Cornell) who created various pieces of assemblage, which was created in boxes and jars. This work was creative and really stood out to me because of the creative use of 'found art'. In my final piece I have jars which have used ordinary objects but then transformed then to represent my experiences through life and dreams.

My journey to creating this piece began with choosing the 'packaging' brief, this brief was exciting and I saw me being able to expand this idea into something that can really represent me. I used jars for this piece which were used previously to store food but changed a basic object into something more creative and interesting that illustrated me.

Through the project I researched many different artists including David Shrigley, Piczo and David LaChappelle (click here to see the work of the photographers I researched), and even experimented creating photography and editing it in the style of various photographers, but I chose not to create a solely photographical piece like I originally wanted because I wanted to experiment with various techniques.

The origami jar

The patterns of the origami cranes which are not that clear were inspired by the repetitive patterns created by Ingo Giezendanner. I really liked Ingo Giezendanner, and wanted to create similar patterns in an origami crane. This jar came out well, although I change the style of it making the cranes stand up for themselves instead of using ribbon. The cranes look slightly sqaushed into the jar, so it could have be clearer what it was in the jar, but in real-life it is more clearer.

The Floral Jar

I used fake flowers and coloured water to create this jar. To colour the water I mixed purple ink and water.

Underwater jar

I like the outcome of this idea, and think it worked well with the theme. Although, this did not turn out as I hoped it still works well. I wanted the jar to be shakeable, but the shell inside has not stuck down to the jar properly so you cannot turn it upside down.