Metis - International Garden Competition

Tuesday 30 October 2012

This is my fourth attempt at blogging tonight - I keep losing everything so will attempt to save this before the empty space strikes again.


Creating a design for the Metis International Garden Competition has been quite fun - I've enjoyed dreaming up a concept but have laboured for days and days over the drawings. I am not very good at rendering; drawing; AutoCAD; Photoshop - and blogging. There are more negatives but a long list will be boring.

My concept is linked to the 21st century digital age of consumerism and how we seem to have lost touch with the simple pleasures of nature. My garden is a journey 'beyond the veils of the modern age'. The ultimate destination is a treehouse-like structure which acts as a 'lookout hide' so visitors can enjoy the beauty and grandeur of the landscape. They will also be able to spot items of interest such as animal habitats, pictured in the hide. 

I would quite like to visit this garden and might even make a little cosy nest up in the treehouse - away from computers, telephones and any sort of work. 
Perhaps I will take a book - fiction as a special treat. 

I have struggled tonight to upload a copy of my plan or axo. Perhaps my brain is overloaded. This is the best I can do for now - it's a plan. The garden is arranged in three sections, as you can see. There is a ground-level digital display in the first section and three ground-level artworks of the local scenery in the second.

Dynamic Composition

Tonight, whilst I should be tucked up in bed, I'm experimenting with Google Blogger. My theory is that I will enjoy an untroubled sleep if I've ticked off a task or two from the Uni. of Greenwich gradually growing list of 'things to do'.

So... I have successfully (I think) opened my blogging account, uploaded my Dynamic Composition - which I had to make smaller in order to get it to upload (100dpi), positioned it on the page (by luck rather than judgement) and changed the font and type colour.

Finally, I will write my 'reflective statement' regarding my composition above:

"I'm actually quite pleased with my layout for this task. I think it's reasonably dynamic - it suggests action and movement - and the eye travels relatively well from top left to bottom right. I like the seemingly random 'upside-down-ness' of the middle picture. I like the fact that I feel could move the jigsaw pieces together to see if they fit - and I quite like the colours although they were not as vibrant as I had hoped. I think the title 'Puzzle' should be moved slightly so that the second 'z' and the 'l' don't encroach onto the middle photo. I would also lighten up my name as it printed slightly darker than the colour in the top photo that I tried to match."

Thereby ends my first blog and I'm feeling rather smug (should this be stupid?), wondering if anyone else has done this yet.