A master plan is a dynamic long-term planning document that provides a conceptual layout to guide future growth and development. Master planning is about making the connection between buildings, social settings, and their surrounding environments.
Masterplan’s of St Helier influence the development of more housing and apartments to cater for the growing population. They propose pedestrian improvements that allow for connections of streets and calmer traffic.
Above are two examples of masterplans for the David Place and Town Park Area.
Jersey’s biggest industry is in Finance, with 25% of full time working adults being employed in that area. The decision to introduce new financial buildings in the area of St Helier is to cater for the increasing employment levels. I believe that by introducing all these massive financial buildings, that may be impressive to those that will use them, it destroys the history and culture already present.
The first thing tourists will see when they enter the island via a boat will be the distracting financial buildings along the waterfront. Do we really want people to view St Helier like everywhere else?
~St Peter Port, Guernsey shares similar features with St Helier, without the additional Finance Buildings
Creating paintings and creating photographs are two different processes. Often a painting presents what was truly seen at that moment in time but a photograph can be manipulated to show people what they want to see. My decision to appropriate old paintings of different meanings into current photographic pieces made it difficult as I would not have all the features of the artwork, such as the location, or the items of clothing. My ability to use the things that I have would be my advantage to creating identical pieces to the artists but I learnt that I did not need to ‘copy’ their work. Resembling the important meanings that these artists used like the photographers who appropriated them allowed me insight into using the same meanings but with current conventions.
I displayed my photos in frames to resemble fancy paintings that hang up on walls. I believed this would give my images the appearance of more status. The frames also made the images themselves feel more historical demonstrating their secrets and meaning.
I chose these two images as they are representative of two styles of paintings, Vanitas/Still Life and Portraits.
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The Portrait image resembles Gwen John’s work from the model to the choice of clothing. This allows it to share meaning with the original piece of art whilst also gaining more meaning from the secrets behind the more modern subject. The light hits the subject’s face creating a subtle shadow that doesn’t destroy the image with harshness. The model stares intensely directly at the viewer allowing a link between their two lives, creating a more personal feel.
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The Vanitas image holds a dark atmosphere in both visual and conceptual terms. It accurately represents the meaning of inevitability of death by the choice of items in the image, from the skull to the lit candle to the books, all common features of the vanita style. Although I took this image with a simple background, it still appears interesting by allowing the viewer different items with different stories to analyse.
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I applied filters to all these images to make the orange tones in the skull, candle and books stand out more. I reduced the exposure to make the background darker, and to emphasise the shadows on the skull.
Someone described Banino’s work as “Pop-Renaissance” or “Pop-Baroque”, mixing popular culture and Old Masters. He has gained international recognition with his photos and has been published internationally in a variety of magazines including National Geographic, The Times, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Cosmopolitan and many others.
His work resembles the style of famous Vanitas paintings.
The two images above are examples of Vanitas Paintings by Pieter Claesz.
Image Analysis:
The image uses little lighting except one spotlight that hits the objects, this guarantees the viewers attention will be on these objects.
I believe the photographer would have used a quick shutter speed to take this image as there is a cloud of smoke that appears still above the candle
The arrangement of the items in this image help tell the story of the person who owns them.
Dan Bannino’s ‘Niche of Wonders’ dedicates personal collections of items intended to reveal something about how their owner saw the world. His inspiration came from the historical items people owned in the renaissance era.
This provides the vanitas style without the meaning of death, however is personal to owner and reveals mysteries about them.
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I applied the filter to all my images to give them the same temperature effect as Gwen John’s self portrait has. I chose these as I felt the shadows in the images don’t take the attention away from the subject in the centre.
