So this project was a collaboration with an Argentine university (Torcuato Di Tella University) because the project was based on the book by Jorge Luis Borges; ‘The book of Imaginary Beings’ and my module tutor had contacts with that university. Essentially this book collects all the fanciful beings that are in the world's ancient cultures.
Our task was to choose one being and recreate it through collage. I had to research collages, and their artists and analyse them. Initially, we should first have selected a few beings to consider, then made one final selection.
My chosen being was the Ichthyocentaurs; In late Classical Greek art, ichthyocentaurs were centaurine sea beings with the upper body of a human, the lower anterior half and fore-legs of a horse, and the tailed half of a fish.
For five weeks we had to present our iterations in a shared space (Mural) and improve them thanks to the critiques of several students and tutors.
My chosen being was the Ichthyocentaurs; In late Classical Greek art, ichthyocentaurs were centaurine sea beings with the upper body of a human, the lower anterior half and fore-legs of a horse, and the tailed half of a fish.
For five weeks we had to present our iterations in a shared space (Mural) and improve them thanks to the critiques of several students and tutors.
First iteration
Fortieth iteration
