Sofia: First Thoughts

These were my first thoughts after reading the book (sorry, all text in Swedish). They circled around the female creature Frankenstein starts creating as company for his Monster, and around the Uncanny Valley-theory (as Frankenstein realizes what horror he has created only when the Monster opens his eyes).

I had some trouble going from here though, and these ideas will not be used. At least not for this project. Now I’m working from the theme Muscle Memory, and the sketches feel very good, more about them another day.

First sketch of the Monster:

Mattias: Frankenstein DIY

My second image. I’m sure the others will catch up and show their stuff too soon, so don’t worry.

Parts of an image about parts.

By the way. Tonight, in a little while, Swedish television will show part 3 of their series about the horror genre, which will deal with Frankenstein and Alien. Coule be interesting…

It will be up on www.svt.se later, so you can watch it there if you miss it on TV…

Mattias: Winter of solitude

The first one that I’m actually going to use is done. Here’s some samples (for the complete picture, come to the exhibition):

 

In relation to the other two images, this will probably be the third, but never mind. I’m showing them here in the order I’m creating them.

This is also the only one with any real connection to Shelley’s book itself. The others are more conceptual. I just got this image in my head and felt that I wanted to do it.

Mattias: First try…

A first image which might turn into something that I will use, but chances are that it won’t. In any case, I thought I’d show it here:

We’ll see what happens with it, if anything…

Jamil: Ideas for the Poster

I had the idea early on to create a poster that visually represents seven different interpretations of the subject Frankenstein. Mary Shelley’s novel is one of the world’s most, if not THE most, interpreted and re-interpreted stories.

In the  first Panorama exhibition we chose to work with the fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood. These works are both stories that just about everybody is familiar with in some way. But do we know these stories from their original form or from one of the many interpretations out there? We in CBK are fascinated by the interpretation itself, the very process, and that fascination is one of the core ideas of these exhibitions.

This is what the first small sketch for the Frankenstein poster looked like:

At first, we were supposed to be six artists working on the project. Three of the current CBK crew, and three that have been working with us in the past. Each artist would get one body part: right arm, left arm, right leg, left leg, torso and head.

But then we were happy to have Sofia Falkenhem join the CBK crew and we wanted her in on this project as well. We were now seven.

Since cutting the human body into seven parts wasn’t as convenient, I came up with the idea of just using the head. And this particular head is easy to recognize! So this is what the next sketch looked like:

I used an image of Boris Karlof’s Frankenstein – a film which we’ll be screening together with several shorts on nov 1st – and cut it into seven pieces. I numbered the pieces and had someone draw a number to assign the pieces to each and everyone of us. I scanned the pieces on a grid so it would be easy to see how they were shaped.

Then we all drew/painted/designed our separate pieces. What they look like pieced back together, is what you see below. Voilà.

Illustration for the Poster

The work to the exhibition is starting to take shape, piece by piece. All the artists are sketching away, working on ideas on how to approach Shelley’s novel.

We have created an illustration as a collaboration for the poster. We cut a classic image of Frankenstein’s monster (from a film that we’ll be showing) into seven pieces, and then each of us drew one piece.

Together with the exhibition, there’ll be a film program with several shorts and one full feature. More about this as we go along, and we’ll be posting the finished poster soon.

The original image can be found here.