As good progress is being made (6 of 8 figures complete) on the figurative installation I am producing for #FluxExhibition 2017, this entry will focus on production drawings to expand the project.
The intention of this work is to produce pieces that describe anxiety and depression. To this end I have been making drawings of the technique used to produce the figures, as design ideas to make works using ceramic techniques.
These drawings were produced by loosely describing the form using the same motion as with the 3d pen. Using traditional drawing pens I completed the drawing using a humble scribble motion to make simple areas of tone which give the image a more 3D feel.
The images are produced firstly in a random fashion, then control to render the shape and finally a combination of random and controlled. Controlled chaos are the words that came to mind during production. These words accurately describe my struggle with mental illness – a cycle of chaotic thoughts followed by attempts to reign them in.
The drawings are also reminiscent of symbols or even characters in a written language (mandarin for example). Producing 26 seperate images in this respect would give me an alphabet which could lead to some exciting abstract text based work.
The next stage however is to make these forms in ceramic which is a subject for another entry.
