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The Rainmaker

INSTALLATION ART RECREATING THE BRITISH SUMMER

Visual Arts final project at Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts, London, 2012.

Creators today are free from the shackles of pixels and pages. We can appropriate materials and objects around us to create more fulfilling and tangible experiences. For me it's about making the ‘everyday’ more special. During my academic year at London in 2012, like every other outsider, I became acquainted with the famous British Summer which is awash with rains. Using this as a point of departure, I conceptualized this installation to create a play between exaggeration and substitution by repositioning ordinary objects to create an extraordinary image. It poses a question to the accepted rules of image-making.

The Rainmaker - Installation
The Rainmaker - Rough Sketch of the Installation
The Rainmaker - Installation - Inspired from London Weather
The Rainmaker - Umbrella Sketch - London Cityscape doodle
The Rainmaker - Umbrella - Wire and Thread Exploration
The Rainmaker - Handcrafted Umbrella - Wire and Strings
The Rainmaker - Sketches for the fabric pattern - Cats, dogs, men, frogs, worms.
The Rainmaker - Fabric pattern - Water cycle, Rainfall, Rainwater harvesting, Paranormal Rain
The Rainmaker - Exposed screen for printing the Fabric pattern
The Rainmaker - Ink buckets and Colours for screen-printing
The Rainmaker - Printed Fabric
The Rainmaker - Printed Fabric - Rainfall Seamless Pattern
The Rainmaker - Printing in the Studio - Memories
Daniel - Rainmaker.jpg
The Rainmaker - Paper cut pattern sketches
The Rainmaker - Paper cutout trials - Fish and Worms- Raining
The Rainmaker - Paper cut Water Waves
The Rainmaker - Final Installation
Rainmaker.jpg