What outcome have I achieved today?
- Cutting Bricks for Chinese & English Illness
Yes thats right! today has been very successful day indeed… A long hard think over the weekend with a list of to do stuff and it all pays off today… First up was the re-organisement of my bricks for the Chinese and English Illness Sculpture called ‘The Possibility Inner Mechanisms Of Inside A Foreign Person’ This has been carefully thought out over the weekend by possibly using a handheld brick cutter machine with brick cutter blade and what do you know?
It works very well as I have tried it out to day with the help of Danielle ‘the technician’ giving me a tutorial in how to use it and thought about this as an experiment to see if it cuts through the bricks successfully… So now that I know this method works successfully I went to mark up exactly where I want to cut on the bricks and will proceed with the next process of cutting them all tomorrow. Should be fun
- Preparing my 4 chosen prints for pretty’s exhibition
Today I have manage to get Glen ‘the technician’ to print me out my 4 chosen prints to be prepared to transfer to silkscreen and will try to prepare these in very good time. Not only he has managed to print me out my 4 chosen prints but he has also managed to print me out the new improved fourth layer for my chairman mao which I was happy about. Although… I feel sorry for Glen as he has had a sickness this afternoon and not sure when he is likely to be returning. With only 14 days remaining before I can hand them in ‘If I get selected for the exhibition’.
I hope I can be able to get these finished in good time especially for this week because in the next week, it is crucial that I get them framed and then that will make it the 14th by the end of next week. So… getting these four prints done is more *mandatory* than anything else that I have to do so fingers crossed I can proceed with the next process by tomorrow…
- More research for research methods
Yeah…… I have literally spent the whole morning for 2-3 hours searching on books based on Political Art such as poster prints, capitalists philosophers about Fetishism and Memory Traces about my own personal feeling within my art. I felt quite exhausted after the session of trying to find books and even some that I could not get which was ‘Contemporary Capitalism in China’ I mean what kind of library is this? when China is one of the biggest capitalist countries in the world…
So I could not get much to relate to my Chairman Mao print but will keep looking. My Chairman Mao print kind of relates to Fetishism and political art and memory trace of my experience in China seeing the country grow. I wanted to look into these different theories of books where I did not really find much at all but I got something about political Art made by printing so I will have a look at this book some time this week.
