Body object space project.

I have a few ideas for this project that i want to look into, the idea of when we go to a new place our senses become alert because it isnt the everyday to us, the norm, however to other people it is the everday. I am also interested in routine and everyday rituals, and the effects when these rituals become an obsesion. I would really like to contine to work and expreriment with video, scrutinising the everyday, perhaps using repetition as a device to show this. I would like to learn how to edit film pieces after camera recording. Other things i am thinking about are things such as the way we can make the every day, mundane things abnormal and unusual, looking at things with a fresh eye. I am going to look into ways of documenting everday objects in unusual ways. In Skye i was interested in journeys and the textural qualities of the surroundings, and the way our surrounding environment moulds our experiences.
I like the idea of passage ways and routes through a city or the countryside, and the effects when these passage ways or routes are invaded and obstructed. The idea of obstructing the rythmn of everday life. I would like to make an installation piece that the people entering the work are blindfolded so the just experience the work with their other senses.
I need to start trying out ideas, and making these ideas visual and tangeable and then narrowing or collating the ideas together.

Back to the studio- Video workshop

The trip was fantastic however It was good to get back to the studio after Skye, to begin to get back into the routines of art school. I found it difficult to get into the project however so decided to continue drawing and painting from skye, whilst at the same time researching into artists and ideas for the body object space project. Looking at Gormleys work and artists such as martin Creed and how the provoke responses in the viewers through their work.
The video workshop really interested me as i have never done film work before, although the restrictions such as only in camera editing and limited us of panning and zooming made it challenging and very restricted, i found this really interesting as it meant we could produce a film using just 2 objects, the camera and tripod in a short space of time. I definetly wasnt to experiment more with video work as i feel that i have learnt the basics of how to use a camera now and want to experiment more to learn what else this medium can do.

Skye trip

Was really excited about the Skye trip as it is somewhere i have always wanted to go. when we arrived i wasnt dissapointer, it is so beautiful and serine, i couldnt get over how quite and unspoilt is was. whilst we were sat on the mountainside drawing during the day we didnt see another person not belonging to our group. At first i felt so overwhelmed by the surroundings, so muhc so that i felt i couldnt pay it justice in my work, It took me a while to start working and i found i was much more considered in my drawing style, it was almost as though i didnt want to rush throungh and work in my usual quick expressive style in case i ruined the atmosphere. Once i did start however i started to get into landscape drawing, as i havent really done it before, i also started to think about drawing in a wider sense and started to make rubbings and use the materials around me such as stones, water and mud to make work. I started to use water to make marks using ink and dipping it in and to us sticks instead of paintbrushes to draw.
Steph and I also decided we would like to do a collaboration, so started to make a piece about a journey, winding string around poles in the sea. This piece was enjoyable to do and it was interesting to collaborate in such an environment as we shared our experinece of it together and portrayed this through the work.

Back to art school as a second year

I havent been blogging over the summer as i decided just to use the blog for the main course projects, so here is my first blog back at art school, first term of the 2nd year.
Our new brief is about Body/space/object i feel this is a really interesting brief with a lot of scope, around daily routine, the mundane and how we interact with the environment around us. I am going to start by looking at how we interact with the environment around us and taking this away, for example by sight, i will experiment with how we are affected when sight is lost. I am also interested in conditions that affect our interaction with our environment such as ocd etc, i would like to investigate this further.

Getting ready for the crit

The last couple of days i have spent finishing my sketchbook and blogging to sort out everything in my work ready for assesment. I felt i had everything displayed but then Paul said he felt there was too much shown so i have refined the display to less pieces which i feel works better and has much more of an impact. I then tidied up the studio and painted everythere. Now all that is left is the crit tomorrow, cant wait to hear everyones comments on my work and everyone else's work.

Deciding how to display the work for the critique

Placing the pieces on ready made plinths, to say that they are sculpture, on the floor to see what this says, however i feel this speaks to much of ritual and then around the gallery space placed to highlight their unusualness. By placing them next to a ready made sculpture i am directly relating them and juxtaposing them to classical figurative sculpture, this has an interesting effect and evokes meaning.

I have finished waxing the clothing that i want to wax, however i would like to try an idea in the future, where i stage a paint fight getting people to wear white clothes and then wax the painted clothing into sculptures. I now need to decide how best to display the pieces, whether to show just photographs or the pieces or both. I feel i definetly want to show the sculptures and feel that they are probably strong enough to be shown on their own and without mediation. So i have spent the last couple of days experimenting with different arangements of the pieces in different sites. I feel that although they are interesting outside the gallery i want to fit them into the gallery context and to show them all in one room. At first i tried a circular formation on the floor however this spoke of rituals and gave another meaning to my piece, which i felt convoluted the concept. I need to make sure the displaying of the pieces doesnt detract from what i am wanting to say about distorting the human form. I then decided to have more fun with them, not grouping them all together, having them all around the studio/gallery space using different means of displaying for different pieces. This worked much better and the pieces retain their unusual and fun aspects by this random quirky placement.