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Rough design for degree show … excerts from sketchbook

More recent designs and Ideas….

A few new designs that I have currently been making for my piece – I am slowly starting to get the many ideas I have out of my head and onto paper (at the moment) so I can talk about them – and also talk through them instead of saying “I think it could look like this” when discussing.

With my designs I have started to take particular ideas from certain drawings and coming up with new ones by placing them together. For instance in the top picture of this post – the wooden effect has been playing a lot on my mind … whether I use it on the floor of the space or on the walls.

The second images on this post is of a version of an earlier design – this time adding coulour to make it a bit more vibrant and readable as I have noticed that my pencil sketches are losing aspects of their designs by simply being in either pencil or fine liner – especially when i start to use text to explain part of the designs – then they are definitely lost.

The ideas behind this design is that the viewer will be confronted by a door – maybe not red – and a plain wall – it is not until they enter the space that they will become part of the installation – performers in their own right to the piece – making the piece complete by them being there. Like in a zoo – when viewers to the animals are wandering around the zoo – they stop – stare and maybe wait a minute or two for an animal to appear – if no animal appears they wander onto the next enclosure – the enclosure is “un-complete” without the animal so the viewer loses interest.

Again … as usual … sooo much has happened in the past couple of weeks and I havent been blogging – but seeing as I now know where my Degree Show piece will be going – and after the Easter 4 day break I’m going to be in clearing out my studio space of all unrelated rubish (mainly paints and bits of paper and drawings) I’m going to get measuring and drawing precise sketches of my ideas and get ordering wood for false walls YAY!

But as always with my blog – I have a backlo of images and I’m going to get up-to-date, before Tuesday then the count-down to the degree show really begins!

(Next couple of posts will be filled withimages and blog text will be added over the next couple of days)

The images in this post are of a revisited piece of work that I created last week.

Last year, I was working on ideas of society, family, friends and how each individual person within a family or within society connects and reacts to one another. This piece was my mark on these ideas – by recreating a flock of birds I was able to make a comment about society.

This work is rather personal to me as an individual in society, as a student, a friend and a member of the Follen family – a daughter, sister, granddaughter and girlfriend and where my place in all these relationships is.

By creating a flock of birds out of fabric, – fabrics that meant something to me or my friends – using different colours, tones and textures, I was also able to comment on the different personalities within society.

By revisiting this piece and recreating it in a different way for the degree show catalogue I have been able to revisit and re think about this piece much deeper than I could beforehand. I have learnt from revisiting this piece and taking a step back once it was up and observing the piece as well as photographing it – I have responded slightly differently this time around than when I first created it. Although all the initial family and societal reasoning’s are still there they appear to be much stronger now – and I hope as a viewer that you can bring your own thoughts to my piece but also respond in the way that I do.

*Thanks Matt for letting me take up part of your space :) *

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POST UPDATE [19/05/2013]

Love my black bird cage … not quite sure what I am to do with it once finished Uni though hmmm ….

Anyway quick update – By revisiting this piece I think I was able to bring some of the family, friends and society elements into my current work as well as rethink some of my thoughts about this piece. I feel that of the two bird pieces (Birds in Flight and Flock of Birds) I prefer the new version as the birds have become more than just a flock they have become another form.

New card reader brought som I can get my films and photos from the other day off to look at – lets hope this works
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It works yayyyy … 2GB’s worth of film though to move over … il leave that to do when I’m at uni in a bit …

Blog review today !