Bad news
Bad news about the clocks idea, I have decided to no longer do this. This is because I have run out of time with making them, as i will need to order special parts in to make the clock handle spin exacltly once per day. I would also need to get someone else to look at it and configure it as I dont have much clue with tecnical sides of these things. With only two weeks left I have decided to leave this, it is a good thing that I have decided to stop making them. This is because two days after deciding this, one of the clocks fell and the fingers that are part of a hand all fell off after hitting the ground at some force.
Here is an image I took a few days ago, it was before the curtains were in place, so the angels are now in darkness and a bit harder to see. As you can see there is compost around the edges and the angels are spread out along the back wall. These will be moved but here is a rough guide to how I will have them set out.
I have now made my space pitch black, there are no gaps at all and you will need lights when walking around. This is what I desired, however I did think that it would be a little lighter than pitch black. This is just something I will have to accomodate for, with health and safety being a bigger issue now that you cannot see where you are walking….
Back to my angel figures.
I have started to arrange these figurines into little scenarios. I wont have them set in their final places until probably the last day possible, as I have no idea where I want them to go. All I know is that I want them to tell some sort of story as you walk through the space. Attached is an example of a scenario that I have created.
As I realise most the artists I have mentioned, and the majority of art that inspires me is graffiti art, I have realised that I am yet to mention one famous person in particular, Banksy.
I like his work, and how he has been one of the major people in contemporty graffiti, however he has become too well know as being anonymous, that it is a shame that a lot of people are making art and trying to pass it off as a ‘banksy’. it is almost as if they are trying just to get some sort of fame or cash rewards from using a name of someone who is anonymous.
However I do enjoy the ones that I know belong to him, if I am unsure then I don’t enjoy them as much and I’m not sure why, maybe it’s because I’m not sure if I’m just looking at something which someone is trying to pretend it is something else, which I see as being wrong. The ready made and using ready made objects I can see as being art, but just using a persons ‘identidy’ to get your art seen I disregard and hate.
Anyway the two pieces of Banksy, (that I know are his) and I enjoy are the two images posted here.
I enjoy the controversy that is created by his pieces, and hearing about how it has offended many, but at the same time appeared as a joke to many more. The locations are also something I like, as mentioned before I prefer to stumble across the art on the street, have it more as a surprise, something that will lighten up many peoples day instead of being in a gallery where you are in the mindset to see it, you expect it and sometimes it wont live up to a certain standard.
An idea that never came to be..
I had an idea, several months ago for a photoshoot. This was to get seven different people to stand infront of some wings which I had painted on the wall. I was going to get people of all different backgrounds, some looking nice and innocent, with others looking quite nasty and quite intimmidating.
In the end I wanted to do the idea with just having people who looked intimidating, as the angels which are described are there to hurt people, so if they were real, I would safely assume that they would be intimidating to everyone.
This idea had came from a music video I had watched on television a few years ago, called ‘dont go’ by wretch 32 ft Josh Kumra (video attached on bottom) the image of the girl sitting in front of the graffiti wings is at 1:02 to 1:04 of the video.
This idea never happened, although I may still do something similar in the degree show. I am thinking that the last angel spray paint stencil I did, I will cut out the figure and then place it on the wall. Before I place it however, I will spray some styled wings on the wall for the image to sit on. At the moment this is an idea, but I am thinking that this will probably be used in the show, bearing in mind I can design some wings that I am happy enough to use.
I will spray these wings white, as to contrast with the black wall, I was planning on using greys as well however I think that the grey won’t be seen as it is in a pitch black room. Instead I will just try and attempt a detailed one layer stencil, maybe using two layers if it is a difficult stencil to cut.
