Final Post of this blog before hand in on Monday.
I have decided to create one final post – in a couple of actual posts as it’s a bit long that will be an overview of my entire blog, drawing in all my influences, reasonings for my cage build and any other little bits of information I feel are important that I may have missed and just remembered.
I am going to stagger write this final post over the next two days whilst I’m reading and annotating the last few pages in my sketchbook and also as things to come to me as I go about my usual weekend. I have also decided that I am going to write it in sections – each section will have a subtitle which will be underlined – so apologise in advance if it starts to look, feel and read like an essay and less bloggy.
Influence – Zoos
Over the last few years whilst being at University a trip to the zoo has felt more and more important especially as my animal themes started to come through to my art work throughout last year (Level 5) and also this year (Level 6).
A day out to the zoo has always meant a day out with the family where we all enjoy the summer sun, maybe get a little burnt, but most importantly enjoy the animals on show. Ever since I was little a day out to the zoo has always been scheduled in the summer calendar of places to go and things to do and it has been no different since being at University and meeting my boyfriend. We have been to two zoos so far London Zoo (in January – was cold) and also Colchester Zoo with my family a couple of times.
both zoos, I feel have played unimportant role in the way that I see zoos as an adult – seeing the animals happy in their enclosures, and also since I started this project the enclosures themselves – both have influenced my Confine installation piece immensely.
I think the main word here is INFLUENCED. I feel that my cage has been influenced by these experiences of modern day zoos – the main way being that I wanted to create a homely feel to my piece without painting on the walls and creating false token imagery of landscapes. I was influenced to bring in objects that would entertain a human in the confined enclosure – however the objects chosen have been chosen frothier simplistic qualities, their low colourings and dull appearances and qualities the longer you spend with these objects. I hope that once my viewer enters the Confine enclosure they will find their inner animal and appreciate some home comforts to begin with – bit also the longer they spend in the piece they start to feel something deeper – and feel overcome by the bars and the entrapment that not only animals feel in zoos (whether their cages are nice and homely or not – surely they will eventually get bored – this is why keepers are always finding something new for their animals to play with) but also what prisoners must feel once they are in prison and also what it feels like if you are a person who doesn’t leave their home.
