Exploring abstract sculpture.
I created this form with long wooden sticks, chicken wire and covered it with black plastic and then coated the piece with paper pulp that I coloured myself. I wanted to create a form where I didn’t have full control of the shape that was produced.
During the process of making the sculpture I felt that it had a strong visual connection to landscape, although this had no influence in my work I found it interesting that a large quantity of viewers said this piece was about landscape.
To me this piece is about biomorphic form as a response to the exhibition life? Boimorphic forms in sculpture. It has a resemblance of an enlarged cellular form that is ‘shedding’ its layers away.
Creating an Environment.
This work was intended to be the start of creating an environmental space for the viewer to walk into and lose them selves in. I started with a panel of chipboard and drew a large scale version of a previous sketch, with the moss paint as a starting point. I intend to add more of a third dimensional factor to create an ongoing depth for the viewer
By selecting primary images that I feel will be successful towards the current work I will translate them into 3.D samples and apply them to the piece and evaluate how they work together as a whole piece.
Paper and wire forms ‘growing’ from the panel.
Using expanding foam samples to create Green mushroom like forms that appear to be growing form the panel.
This mushroom like forms were just samples of unused foam that I had applied to the floor in small mounds as an experiment for creating a smooth surface with the foam.
When removing them, the inside was hollow; Although that wasn’t what I wanted to outcome to be, I was very pleased that I had discovered this technique.
Painting With Moss.
After finding a recipe for moss paint, I made a small sample using a previously used image as template to paint around. If the paint works and the moss successfully grows I will create a collection of moss graffiti faces as well as the neon graffiti faces. 
Placement of my work.
I placed one of my sculptures outside of the university to explore its effects in an environment other than the studio and against the white wall. The intensions of placing this piece outside was also for the public to unintentionally stumble across the work.
I knew that overtime the plaster will wear away and become something that it didn’t originally look like and I found this idea interesting.
Art246 Assessment
Initially my ideas were to create a connection between emotion and nature. I did this by looking at the most basic way for the viewer to interpret a how people feel, facial expression and body language. I have approached this by creating both figurative and abstract pieces, exploring scale and material. I have focused mostly in sculpture but have explored the likes of photography to gather subject recourses and references and I have made use of drawings and mark making to develop ideas for my bigger pieces.
As I have been working through this module I have left behind the connection of emotion and nature and found that looking more at the placement and surrounding of a piece has become more important as well the steps it takes for something unusual to become accepted in its new environment.
I have recently began to create floor instalations rather than the piece being hung or mounted to the wall, this is something I wasn’t so keen on doing but now that I have tested it, I am enthusiastic to the visual potential with more of my outcomes. combining digital imagery with my sculpture work is also something I was dubious out but now intend to do more of as the Escape installation in for SPS crit was very successful.
For the future I intend to create larger, room filling sculptures that create and intimidating presence and creating an environment that interacts with the viewer.
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