And now… time for pirouettes

Another busy day and late night today.

I have managed to do some work which I’m not sure about it but at least I have tried to create something new from scratch.

Today I bought around 2200 Minky multipurpose cloths in yellow, pink, blue and green. I have now have 46 packets with 50 cloths in each packet. The pressure is on now because I kind of have to do something with them!!

I had in my mind this idea of building a house with the packets but 46 packets are not enough, I will have to have like 200 packets and that is crazy and EXPENSIVE…

Having had the scholarship has been amazing, to be able to buy things as I needed them is such a luxury but it can also makes you feel anxious as you want, or I want to make the most of this opportunity.

People in B&Q were just stunned by seeing my trolley full of coloured cloth and I had a nervous smile as I was thinking what the f*** you have just done!!!????

I still have the receipt and I have told them that I might come back for a refund if I don’t use them.

Now with degree show approaching I can’t stop thinking what to do, should I sew, should I use objects… ???

I needed to make today like crazy. I have been the whole Easter break, either looking after my daughter, doing things at home or writing this blog and draft. I got late to the studio and I only was able to work until 4.30pm.

I have used the cloths, the laundry baskets that I bought in Asda (and I nearly bought the whole lot), some ice creams spoons that I was given by the some classmates in sculpture and stuffing.

I keep remembering of what Joana Vasconcelos said: to put things together is easy, they look pretty but what it is important is to have an idea and then get the material. I hope I was able to work like that! Or maybe I’m been lazy.

Must go to bed because my eyes are closing… Need some rest now.

Anyway this is what I have done for the crit tomorrow, it is not finished just yet, got tomorrow between 9 and 11am. I hope the whole thing doesn’t look dull, or not too much.

More drawings… same as before, illustrations of thoughts and feelings along the journey, studies for future sculptures and drawing from sculpture.

Must move on…

I’m started to draw more but it is easy to let it in the side specially when there is so much to do!

I love drawing, it is the first mark on the paper from your thoughts, like illustrating what your eyes see in your mind in your imagination…

Must move on

Some collages using the pictures from the buckets in previous post. Human figure and animals. Domestic identity. I seem to refer to animals constantly in my work. I represent mostly birds, chickens and cows… It is worth a little essay to see why I do this.

Just found this essay on THE PRESENCE OF ANIMALS IN CONTEMPORARY ART AS A SIGN OF CULTURAL CHANGE, which seems worth a read, see link below:

http://www.upf.edu/forma/_pdf/vol6/Andersen_Animal…

Must go and get some work done for tomorrow!!!

More pictures tonight.

Very briefly…

Repetition, playfulness, arrangements, compositional, geommetrical, study for drawings, colour composition, perspective and patterns.

As I still need to catch up and move on.

I sent my dissertation “draft” last night, not really a draft but only some ideas, titles and chapter headings. I think my subject is very broad and I need to narrow things down. These are some titles which are really the same thing.

Turning Life Inside Out. The Carnival Effects in Visual Art

The Carnivalesque as a Medium for Communication in Society.

Universal Free Spirits

A Survey in the Carnivalesque and the Visual Arts

Life Without a Mask,

A Survey on the Importance of the Carnival Principle in Modern Society and in Contemporary Visual Art.

Art As a Celebration of Life,

A Survey on the Carnivalesque and the Grotesque in Contemporary Visual Art.

I hope that with the help of my tutors they will be able to direct me in the right direction.

For now I now need to focus on making work. I forgot that I have a crit tomorrow and I need to make some work today! I must be quick and clever. I’m going to take loads of fabrics from last year so I hope this will help me to get started.

Will post a picture of what I manage to do!

Go go go Mercedes!