Managed to get everything into the studios , with a little help from my friends, as i shouldn’t really be lifting and moving things now. Picked up my finished wallpaper from the technicians office and am now pretty much set and ready to go. Last minute as always but i have faith it will all be done and look fantastic.
Decided on the four collages i will display. I have had them made into A3 size acrylics, it was hard to pick my favorites but i decided on these after many hours of deliberation. I ordered them off the internet and now i can see them in the flesh, I am really pleased with them. From little scrappy pictures in my sketchbook, to enlarged, impressive images that are worthy of being displayed in an exhibition.
Also ordered a roll of phototex fabric paper that is self adhesive to make putting up and taking down my wallpaper as easy as possible. This material is also reusable meaning i can keep the paper afterwards. I have had 6 strips printed off at 2.3m long and have now just got to hang them.
This is another found object, an ornament that was given to me that i have covered in lips. As the two people that make up the ornament were kissing, i decided to cover it all in lips. I have used every different type of mouth i could find, open mouths, smiling mouths, sneering, seductive, pouting and just normal mouths.
This is to show all the different things a kiss can be to both parties, it can be loving and affectionate, passionate, sympathetic, out of pity, as an act of control or contempt for another who is not involved in that particular kiss, to uncaring or complacency; basically such a range of emotions and reasons for a kiss that it may never be as it seems or it could be an expression of true love, all dependent on the parties involved and their intentions.
Feel like that is going a bit deep into it and of course there is the fact that the lips are the organs used to create a kiss and both people are concentrated on them with their whole body not just their face.
No matter how many eyes i stick on this thing it is not looking like i have done a single thing to this mirror! I know it is getting there but it is actually driving me insane, my wrists hurt, my back hurts from sitting over it and i am seeing eyeballs in my sleep.
Looking a bit better but still a bit of green showing through from the plastic of the face. Slowly but surely it’s getting there.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay I’ve done it! So satisfying, i now have this and my house ready to take to the degree show and i love the look of both of them. I have this on the dresser in my front room and it keeps catching my eye and i am very pleased with it, i think it has a huge impact and will look great at the degree show.
Starting to hate collage and eyes. There is just so much to cover and i am on the verge of giving up. If i didn’t have the vision in my head of what i wanted at the degree show , it would feel like i was doing a pointless job. I know that i need all the components to make it how i want it and to have the impact i want to create on the viewer so i have to shake this feeling of hopelessness and know that in the end it will all be worth it when i bring all the pieces together and produce the art that is my head and heart.
