Study of Creeper.

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.

Decay then Grow – Placement and surrounding.

Looking at some of my early pieces from the beginning of the year , I wanted to see if i could develop them further by using what I have learned after its production. Not very satisfied with my stuffed purple plastic bag piece from october, I looked at what i could combine it with from my newer pieces.

I placed one of my experimental clay sculptures in several different compositions with the bag piece until i found that tearing through the bag and using it to prop the heavy clay sculpture up looked very interesting and as though it was growing from the internal content of the plastic bag which was now also spilling out onto the floor.

(Decay Then Grow)

I found this quite interesting as people had commented that the plastic bag looked morbidly like a body and now it looked like decay had set in and giant plant life were using this presence as nutritional source to survive there.

Combining these two unsuccessful pieces in a way that complemented each other and created a dependancy on each other, in my eyes has made this piece very successful.