For a while I was really struggling with what to call my final pieces for my degree show, mostly the metal pieces and gardens. The mud paintings I was keeping it simple and naming it what it shows, for example with a daisy, I will call it Daisy. To decide on the names of the metal and gardens, I made a list of what my work is about.
What are they about:
Transform. Transformation. Change. Growth.
Corrosion. Reaction. Adapt. Time. Weathered.
I decided to go for a more scientific title for my work, as that is how they become what they are. When the steel rusts this is called corrosion, so it seemed only fitting that I title them after that. The copper I have named Reaction, as the copper changes due to the reaction when oxygen and rain water hits the it. Now the next problem is, is that I have two steel pieces and seven copper pieces. I thought naming them Reaction 1 and Reaction 2 was a bit boring. I then had an idea of using Roman numerals. So the titles would be Reaction I and Reaction II.
Art Titles:
Corrosion I
Corrosion II
Reaction I
Reaction II
Reaction III ….. and so on until the last copper work. The first three I think I will probably keep as one.
I have named the gardens Growth. It is simple but it is what it is. This work is based on the growth that occurs in the boxes. It was never guaranteed that anything would grow, but things did grow and so Growth is a perfect title.
I also had a plan to name my exhibition space. I had a very similar list to the one above for the title, but it was longer as it included every aspect of my work:
Nature. Natures Traces. Changes. Traces of Nature.
Transform. Transformed. Forces. Environment.
Transformation. Landscapes. Mud. Earth.
Natural Environment. Soil.
I have decided to go for Traces of Nature. Every part of my work involves traces of nature, the indexical traces left by rain and oxygen on metal, the soil that I use to paint with and the soil I used for my gardens are all traces of nature in my work.
The title and my name will be displayed in a frame.
