thoughts provoked during my assessment about how we will take medication if the doctor tells us to.

Playing with my new pens :-)

Anchoring Emotions

-         An exploration of how music triggers memories.

By Helena Collins

3D Installation/Print/Sound/Audience Participation

With this piece I have tried to communicate how pieces of music can trigger our memories, by creating a space where I am displaying music which triggers my own memories. I chose make an installation where the viewer could be part of the work because I wanted to create a physical experience for my audience, so that when they next hear the song they listened to in my space, they will have a memory anchored of their experience. My main inspiration for my final piece came from Fiona Banner’s piece “Colour Blind” and how it was exhibited and David Carson’s low tech printing style which felt really personal. I also read Daniel Levitin’s book “This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, where he looks at the connection we have with music, giving me a much better understanding of the subject I was exploring. My piece is very personal, by hand printing every letter it was like I was imprinting the memory behind that lyric physically onto the piece; it’s almost a portrait of myself with words.

“But as soon as we hear a song that we haven’t heard since a particular time in our lives, the floodgates of memory open and we’re immersed in memories. The song has acted as a unique cue, a key unlocking all the experiences associated with the memory for the song, its time and place.” – Daniel Levitin

Using Letter Stamps and Silk Screen Prints to transfer the lyrics from the songs that trigger certain memories for me onto the the dyed calico.

Postcards for my Exhibition

Typography Silkscreen of Bring Me The Horizon Lyrics on Dip-Dyed Calico

Responding to my critique No. 3:

drawing/painting an image of the memory related to the lyric (in this case a crying eye because Bring me the Horizon’s “it never ends” is song i like to listen to when I’m upset and angry) then edited in photoshop where i could type with a font i like more than my handwriting.

Response to critique No. 2:

Another response from my critique on friday again using an image of my memory related with a song (this time its Bring Me The Horizon’s “Chelsea Smile” because I once got punched in the face at one of their gigs which is why I chose to draw a fist). I also edited this one in photoshop because I don’t like my handwriting.

Responding to feedback from my critique:

drawing/painting an image of the memory related to the lyric (in this case an image of a shoulder because while at A Day To Remember’s gig while they sang “If it Means a lot to You” i had to help put my friends shoulder back into its socket) and then fit the lyrics around the shape of the drawing which i did first in my sketchbook and then edited in photoshop where i could type with a font i like more than my handwriting.

typography of lyrics 2

typograpy of lyrics

Art Experimentation Day

finishing the installation of lyrics on 2x 25 sheets of A3 paper attached to a wooden frame and suspended from the ceiling