
This project was based on a trip to Liverpool. One of the places we visited was Liverpool Maritime Museum where I kept on noticing paintings depicting ships painted with 'dazzle Camouflage'. The aim of dazzle camouflage is not to hide the ships, but rather to confuse the enemy enough for their aim to be wrong enough to miss a critical hit. Researching this fascinating topic further, I discovered it has links with various art styles including cubism, vorticism and futurism. As Dazzle camouflage is effective in the 3D setting it was designed for, I decided to research into various 3D paper artists such as Florian Beudrexel which led to my experimentation with 3D models to mirror the illusion created by Dazzle. For my developments I created 4 paintings inspired by different aspects of dazzle, then combined and manipulated them digitally resulting in a dazzle inspired print. I then went on to use this print to make a paper model of a ship which I used to tell the story of dazzle in a zine. In the zine I wanted to show the reasons that dazzle was necessary and the art styles that it was both directly and indirectly influenced by, using only artwork, images and text that I had created. This project is still ongoing and I plan to progress with it further by creating a paper model artwork inspired by dazzle to display on the back of the zine.
My Journal For The Project
















