Confused or childish?
Between stomach flu, parent-teacher meetings, art admin and packing for a visit to Berlin—I guess it’s not surprising that I haven’t written this week’s blog entry, or done much work on my dolls house.
I thought I would follow through with some sort of architectural intervention, which I discussed in my last blog entry (i.e. Gordon Matta-Clark). A few people on my ALAS residency recommended 4-D modelshop.co.uk in East London and their laser cutting facilities. Unfortunately, I didn’t make the most of their close location to Matt Roberts gallery during the residency, and I am now dragging my feet about whether to do it or not.
It ‘s irreversible to carve a hole and then find out that it doesn’t work. What would I do then? No money/time to buy another one.
In the meantime, I keep ordering dolls house furniture, as I can move it around easily, keep the installation fluid, and not have a permanent, fixed idea that I have to develop. It’s addicting to collect miniatures to photograph.
This is where I start losing focus as I begin to think of future ideas to create with the dolls house furniture. I could write stories to fit the images I photograph. Or maybe gain inspiration from artist Charles Matton’s Enclosures (reduced-scale rooms that he lovingly crafts by hand). I might really go off on a tangent and research Morton Bartlett’s handmade dolls and accessories he photographed.
I could just return to the idea that I mentioned at the beginning of this blog. I think I’m trying to make everything too complicated (in my mind that equals interesting). My simple idea seems too basic. Just show the dolls house as it is and project a video onto it. I’ve talked about the reasons why it would feed into my other work and the theory behind it. But. It feels a bit boring.
Time to have a chat with Matt Roberts, who has offered all the residents an opportunity to talk before the exhibition if we get a bit stuck. I think I’ll take him up on that suggestion…
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http://eyecontactsite.com/2012/05/dolls-in-berlin
