I have finally sorted out my chair! Well almost. I had began to stitch the frills of the sheet down so it wouldn’t move when sat on, to make it neater. However in my tutorial with Jane we spoke about the chair and I spoke about how I struggled with what to do with this loose material. It didn’t look too bad like this to be honest but I suppose you don’t really find frilly armchairs. We spoke about how it may become a bit too distracting if the viewer is drawn to the frills . this would mean it becomes more about the chair itself than the work I intend within it, which I don’t want to happen.
After the tutorial I began by unstitching the thread on the frills ready to start again. I did find it really frustrating as I don’t really know what I’m doing with regards to trying to upholster a chair and I just had so much loose material I didn’t know what to do with it all. I didn’t want to have to cut it in case it went wrong. However I realised it was the only way for it to really be able to be sewn down neater.
I ended up cutting quite a lot of material off, but this then meant I was able to make the arms a lot neater. I wanted them to match as much as possible, but from where the sheet hung there was no way I could prevent having a couple of joins. The arms aren’t as taut as I would have liked but that is my fault for pinning down the material too tight in some areas and not in others in the first place.
I sewed around where the wooden pieces are at the front to give it some detail. I also have sewed the cushion nice and tight so there won’t be any gaping when sat on. The sewing isn’t that neat under the cushion but I didn’t feel that was as important as no-one will see it. I feel a lot happier about the chair now and feel it looks a lot better. there are just a few little adjustments that need doing and neatening up which will be done Monday, then I can get on with the hair!
Whilst experimenting with projecting my film in my space, I decided to project onto my chair as well. I did the same experiment on my chair and bed sheet. Both show up really well and really clear due to the white colour of them. However I don’t feel there is that same link that there is with the dress. Therefore it doesn’t really work on these two. It was interesting to see how the image was projected onto these different objects though.
I tried out experimenting with my film projected onto different surfaces and sizes. At the moment there’s not really any space on my wall to try the projection really big on a white wall, so I will try that once in my degree show space. However I did experiment with different objects in my space.
I first tried it on the wall on top of my boards. I do quite like it on the wall from what I could see, but it definitely takes away the effect of the boards which I don’t want to happen. So once I get in my degree space I will take the opportunity to try it out on the clear wall.
I then tried out projecting the film onto my dress which has been a plan for a while now. I tried it large and small scale to see what would work best.
Large scale on the top of the dress over the make-up gave a distorted image. I was able to see it was a projection but it was very unclear to see what was actually being projected. In a way as much as I’d like to hide my face by projecting it this way. I feel this would then mean, I in fact lose the effect of it if the viewer can’t actually see what is going on.
I tried it small scale, similar to how the artist Pipilotti Rist works. I do really like this small scale projection as I feel it does have to make the viewer get right up close and personal to the dress to see what is going on in the video.
I feel it also works on a fairly large scale on the centre of the dress where there is just clean wipes. This makes the image clear and easy to see for the viewer; nothing is distorted here.
At the moment I am tied between the large scale on the dress and small scale. Do I want the projection really clear to see and show my uncomfortable feeling? Or do I want the viewer to have to really come close to my make-up to understand what is really going on, which perhaps they won’t want to do because of the ‘dirty’ wipes. This is something I am going to be thinking about over the next few days. And I need to try it on on the plain white wall!
I haven’t really mentioned about the bottle I was collecting my contacts in, in solution since way before I began the everyday collection of items. I do have more lenses in there from when I added more before this whole new idea with the boards. However as I ended up with a fair few in there they appear to all gather together at the bottom of the bottle unless shaken when they do look better. I decided to place a dried up lens back into liquid to see what would happen. Next day checked and it had broken up. I’m not to sure it’s visible in the photos, it is very hard to notice. Not really sure where I’m going with these lenses at the moment do I want them dried out or in liquid? Or both? Do I even need them? I am looking forward to getting into my degree show space so I can begin rearranging elements and getting myself a bit organised in there. I have a feeling this piece is now not really that relevant within my work.
Thinking about the folder idea and decided I would try out some of my other collections in a folder, such as my cotton wool balls and pads.
It was a task trying to think how would I arrange them in the plastic wallets as they are so small in comparison to the make-up wipes and a lot more rounded too. I decided to place 4 in a row as that’s how many I use a day, then order them in the first wallet by lightest shades on them first through to the back wallets to the darkest. I then ordered them so you could see each row beneath each wallet. I did the same with the nail varnish ones too. I’m not really sure if I like this idea at the moment. Maybe I need to experiment with these in my cabinet? I feeling like they’re lacking something, I’m just not sure what.
