I have beeen looking at different ways which an audience can view works. This is because I wish for the degree show that the audience does not just walk into room and see art on the wall or little sculptures just sitting there, instead I want it to be a little bit more interactive and involve the audience abit more by using their senses.
I have thought about using dirt and wood shavings to cover the floor, this way there will be a different texture to stand on, different smells and noises of rustling when walking around the works. this can also be used to help hide parts of sculptures and make them merge into the floor, without having obvious stras and ends of the sculptures. They will interact with the floor texture aswell as creating a scenario which has not yet been thought of.
Aside from having this new type of floor space using the dirt and wood shavings, I wanted something which the audience needed to use in order to use when walking around. I have come up with an idea of having lanterns, seven will be made and used when looking around. Although candles would be an ideal choice of light for the lanterns, I have to use batteries and lights instead because of health and safety…. I will either make these lanterns out of metal which will be welded or make them out of wood, the glass which is a lantern will be replaced with perspex, something which I can experiment with on whether or not I wanted to include text. this text would be one of the seven quotes on each lantern and can be seen when up close to a wall, the shadows creating the passage in the bible.
I have brought a lantern in a shop to use to experiment with to see if I could get the same effect which I have imagined. Here are two pictures attached which show how the lantern is being used. One is of a lantern just with a candle inside, which has given the desired amount of light, it can create a shadow but you have to get close enough to the work to see it rather than it being bright enough to light up the whole room, making it pointless to use as there mayaswell just be a dim light in the room.
The other image shows the lantern when it is shining upon an angel statue which i had created. I like the shadows that is given off the statue and the shade of lighting which show off the details within the sculpture.
