Miranda's Portfolio

chair with legs It stands like a new born fawn, unsteady on its new frankenstein legs, tied on with tape and string had to shorten some branches for balance flipped upside down to allow to grow planting in pot for roots attaching to tree part of tree growing off of tree buds from the broken branch

chair tied to branches, bring life to chair

Grafting chair to tree using photoshop, poorly done, would spend more time on final version, is just a test for now. look at artist Gavin Munro and Dina Scherer, artists who manipulate plants to create forms

 chair in tree, bring back to nature, try and reconnect it attaching chair to tree

Plants I am growing Grass, make into seat? Cat Grass, same as above cress, quick growing, hardy Ivy on my fence Beans

Plaster foot attach to bottom of chair? make whole leg? plant cress in it?

stuff i have Arm bones Bamboo Bandage Beans Book making stuff Books Branches Bricks Candles Card Chair growing into tree Chair into chairs Chairs Chicken wire Cress Dolls house stuff Drawing Flowers -wild -sunflowers Grass Holly House paint Human Ice Leaves Lego Light Little wooden sticks Maps Mirror Moss Needles Nettles Newspaper Paint Paper Party poppers Paving stone Plaster bandage Plastic tubing Playing Cards Rain Rocks Root Rubber bands Sandpaper Scrap wood Smoke Soil Soldering tool String Tarmac Thorns Toys Trees Water Whiteboard Wire Xmas tree

Abandoned chair Camouflaging the chair, trying to encourage plants to grow over it found near yorkshire show, will throw out to minimise damage to wildlife when i am done with it

Fingers broken by using Black 3.0 paint

Chair on Facebook marketplace, negotiated to £5 picked up, and only front of chair is damaged, feel guilty damaging it

Milk, broken makes a line

Nokia phone taken apart to adapt into pinhole camera

Chair I got off Facebook market place, it looked creepy in this composition Me sat in the chair

Root I found on walk, disinfected and washed with detol, have left to dry for a few weeks to make sure no insects live inside and to maybe peel the bark off? May cut to size and use as leg for furniture

Abandoned broken chair near Yorkshire showground, could leave and take photos of as time goes by to see how nature reclaims and repairs it. I may move it to a more secluded spot as people may throw it away. Ethically I will throw it away when I have used it and not let it deteriorate to the point it may damage plants and animals nearby.

Sunny Bank Mills in Farley

Hand painted like china, then cracks drawn on along the wrinkles on my hand

Broken iPhone repaired using Kintsugi Hard to use good leaf, tried multiple glues, fabric, nail and pva, so far the fabric seems best as it dries slowly and it stays tacky, would like to try apoxy like what is recommended. Gold is fiddly, it sticks to everything and is hard to control where it lands, currently I am working with toothpicks and mini paintbrushes to try and keep some control.

Repair Looking at kintsugi, Japanese art of repairing pottery by making it more valuable, putting gold on the resin used to repair the cracks When realising how something loses and gains new function when broken then repaired, I looked into the planned obsolescence of modern technology. All the soul and identity you put into your phone is lost when it breaks, it’s value goes from thousands to nothing. How would you regain some of that value and how would you show it losing its use? I feel maybe a phone broken flashing it’s final images across its screen could represent this Like pictures from Nz to show what my iPhone 5 meant to me, now just a brick I can also try to ‘repair’ the cracks using kintsugi Making it a useless but pretty brick