After seeing how well the elephant string went I decided that I wanted to put a black, solid background with a couple of colourful swirls imprinted in it to make the background pop and bold, I then chose to divide the nails themselves into sections some will be normal well others will be painted yellow for the wings and bottom half to resemble a road to add colour to the nail but to also make the piece glow under UV making it something new and giving it a funky edge that only the background, wings and road light up and white for the main appendants of the helicopter to really bring and divide the outline from the normal nails to also show expects of the image itself, I chose for this piece, helicopter (Appachchi). I also did something different to that of my elephant, string piece, I didn’t add string to this work because I thought it would be too much and it works better without the string because you must really look at this piece to truly see the copter which is what I wanted to achieve a sense of losing oneself and in a way it states something that I didn’t know at the time when I was making it because it is a war aircraft maybe it gives off a of political story to that of war, soldiers and being not safe and the nails just adds to the effect of this on-going lost and hurt and swirls could be leading and pathing the way to escape.
Using plywood for these pieces was logic and easier for the small nails to be hammered in but also when it comes to putting the image together it showed through and even made little indents on the back of the wood which was cool, creating its own image and added another element to the pieces of work. I chose to paint some nails because it changed the form of the nail into something new and also kept with the theme of decoration and pattern by adding that small colour and enhancing the artworks as a whole.
