Day 4 of Degree Show put up
I spent today doing a quite a bit I feel.
Popped to town and brought some more string and some bracket things that are to be attached to the wall with screws and then using more string to keep the bamboo walls in place.
Tomorrow I need to finish my last 6ft X 6ft bamboo wall and then just un-tie a couple of 6ft lengths off my 4ft wide walls because of the move in ideas from free standing structure in my exhibiting space and also now that my cage is going to be connected to the walls so now two of my end walls will now be turned into doors. Still trying to work out whether I can create some sort of false pulley system to make the doors look more real … this is the plan for tomorrow along with the final wall build.
Next week (if all goes to plan) I will be able to start to put the key elements of my piece … such as the bedding, the covering for the floor, and key objects… Excited…
Day 3 of Degree Show put up
21/05/2013
Today started off a bit slow, got up late which then seemed to make everything else late (in my head that is).
The original plan was to head in for 9 (didnt happen) and construct two 6ft high by 4ft wide sides and also two of my four 6ftx6ft walls (the latter also didnt happen). However, I did manage two walls and also (with some help) have worked out how I can structurally support my cage so that it won’t warp, nor move when viewers are walking past and entering the cage itself.
During a rather lengthy discussion with a fellow student about my cage, ideas for brackets (which I really didnt get at all) and that a free standing cage may not work for this piece (both asthictically or structurally) we did agree that straw is probably the best thing to put on the floor as it will fit in with my bamboo natural feel about my cage.
Finally for this post … A few things I am currently struggling/thinking about tonight …
1. hand-in for critical review is Friday and my plan of handing it in tomorrow isn’t happening (will try for Thursday)
2. do i shred my maps up and use them as part of my bedding for the space … is this over complicating or will adding something extra … hmm
3. on my sign into my exhibit do I use the word homosapien or human to describe the “animal” in my cage ???
Answers on a postcard please.
Will add final(ish) blog tomorrow night … hopefully I will have answers for my questions and also I will have a few photographs to put up …
Day 2 of Degree Show put up … (yesterdays – 20th May)
Spent today in my exhibiting space … yay!!! Am very excited about my cage designs and am ready to get on with the build and construction of my piece. However today I spent filling and sanding and painting my walls and clear space for the real work to begin tomorrow.
Also spent today as a time to real consider the items that will be placed in the cage to make it more “homely” for my inhabitants (animals/humans) but these items also should not be too new, they need to look old and used I feel.
I have spent most of today reading my blog and updating some posts (see my now doubled in size artist post – especially the bit about Damien Hirst).
Anyway I am currently feeling rather happy about my ideas and whats going to be happening over the next couple of weeks, painting walls, constructing my cgae, hopefully a performance element somewhere and private view.
Calm before the storm I fear … oh well.
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So whilst I am in this good mood of feeling calm I thought I would take this time to talk about my final design a little bit more in depth.
After thinking it over and over again of should I use solid walls for my cage and create windows, should I have bars which creates the cage feel, do I allow visitors inside or not – I have the answers.
The solid walls are gone from my cage designs … they were helpful whilst they were iin the idea pool but they limit the design and where it can be exhibited.
By creating a Bamboo cage structure I will hopefully the desired caged in feeling, and although I will be covering up most of the cage structure with craft paper so that the areas feel even more enclosed and cramped by using natural lighting (and possibly some artificial ones too) the bars will come through and create an errie presencce on the viewer.
With this final design there will be three areas – I’m still weighing up whether to let the audience into the whole cage – but for the time being I am keeping it so that they can enter the middle section, experience being caged, but dont have access to the other two areas so that I can place items on the floor – such as books, blankets and plates and also possibly have sound effects in these areas.
Day 1 of the Cage Build
Saturday 18th May 2013
Spent yesterday in Uni with my boyfriend, who helped me move my boxes from my studio space to my exhibiting. He also helped me to start the construction of the Bamboo cage. So far I have the 8 corner posts all tide together and also the main door way and one 6ft high by 4ft wide wall.
