Second blog of the day … Further development of a zoo/human installation design.
After a recent tutorial, I realised that I was trying to recreate a homely feeling in my space – for example take the previous post where I was thinking of recreating a living room design, I was thinking of using pieces of furniture and recreating a room in my studio space with chairs, tables, bookcases etc.
Whilst discussing the designs (both in previous post) with my tutors it got me thinking about zoo enclosures more and more, and how although for the animals (and also the visitors to the exhibits), the environments are all recreated with the materials the keepers have to hand, be it tyres for monkeys to swing about on, large rocks for lions to sit on, or even the painted backgrounds of the outdoor and indoor enclosures that the animals inhabit, the space they occupy is not their natural habitat like in the wild, but a very clever recreated space for the animals to inhabit. This idea is what I have been searching for, for the past few months …
A visit to a zoo seems to be needed soon …
