Well I’m so above you and it’s plain to see but I came to love you anyway… So you pulled my heart out and I don’t mind bleeding, any old time to waiting… waiting… waiting.
Now in the previous post I wrote ‘initially’ when talking about my proposal for SNIP, this is because after I was selected as an artist to exhibit in this exhibition, I was also told during a tutorial that they would like me to change my proposal…
If truth be told, I entered my proposal at the very last minute, of the last day, mainly because I was unsure as to whether I wanted to actually enter or not. It is a lot of work and it takes place on the exact same week as the opener to my degree show, surely the degree show should be my main priority? But without sounding ungrateful I really am very happy that I have been selected for this. Back to my proposal, what they really liked about my studio work was my texted based work, and as my end of degree show piece is a floor piece containing text, they really want me to experiment and explore more with this concept in the space within the barn. They explained that the reason they wanted me to be a part of the show but not with the pieces I had entered is because they felt I had played it quite safe with my concrete sculpture ideas and they felt that the text work describes me better as an artist and they want to see this idea explored. So of course I am very happy to be taking part in the show, just worried as hell as the degree show and the SNIP exhibition opens on the exact same week.
Here is a revised version of my proposal for SNIP… As you will read, I have gone completely AWOL from my original proposal.
I would like to explore the area of ground within the barn. My current studio practice consists of casting concrete and using text as a medium; my choice for working with the concrete is to address its use in modern day construction, where once true care and time were taken in constructing buildings out of hand tools and timber, those processes have now been replaced with large scale castings out of concrete for speed and ease of completion.
However for my SNIP proposal I would like to put forward the idea of exploring the ground within the area of the barn using text. The floor for the barn is a large span and as there is ample space for the chosen artists to create work within, I would like to focus on the floor. My original proposal was to create concrete sculptures, however after talking with the selectors and curator they felt my text work was stronger and they would like to see this text based work to feature, so taking their advice and preparing a new I will be producing a text based idea for the floor of the barn.
Following on from the idea for my degree show, I will be taking words and phrases that we have been exposed to from the media in all formats and creating large blocks of text. The specific ‘Buzzwords’ I am using will echo the words used within the media to describe government actions, although these words are never explained to us, we have to choose whether to accept these words and their suggested meaning or reject them from our vocabulary. The words will be site specific for the particular environment and sprayed onto the floor using chalk based paint, the paint will act as the news print in the sense that the viewer will be encouraged to interact with the piece in the form of walking on it and slowly wearing away the paint like newsprint on fingers. What I hope will happen is people will choose words and phrases that they are particularly interested in and so over the course of the exhibition, certain words will stand out as perhaps favourites and others will be worn away.
