9:30am
I feel the need to write up thought on my dog sculpture. Obviously as seen in a previous post it is still a working progress. I am n ot sure whether it fits into my project yet or whether i am deviating from my initial idea. I dont know what to think or feel about it yet so will soldier on and see what happens when it is at a stage of completion. The other thing about this sculpture is that i feel it is not orignal enough an idea for me because i have seen similiar sculptures before. Robert Bradford has done sculptures of dogs and used toys to cover and make the body. I have yet to find out the concept of these works but aesthetically i feel my dog needs to be pulled worlds about. I wont to make mine more craft based and not so much about the childhood aspect.
11:45am
I want to reflect on a my ‘Dog Blanket’ piece in this post with relation to a previous post about the craft and fine art um… boundaries. This piece i was very excited to see develope and finished as i had anticipated a beautiful and somewhat perfect outcome. This however is not how the piece came out. Once i had finished the piece i had noticed how the crochet had bunched up slightly under the sewing and become somewhat untidy. I know this in a craft point of view can be understandable as hand made items are sometimes bound to come out a little off. However i wanted this piece to look perfect and be straight lined, so that it would be easy to hang on a wall as my own contemporary tapestry. I now realise that it is still a contemporary tapestry (in my eyes anyway) but it to me is no longer a piece of craft. My view about craft is that it should be perfect phycially and aesthetically and because this is not of that standard that i wanted as a craft piece i decided to remove the craft element away from the context and it became merely a ‘Dog Blanket’.
The final thing i wanted to add to this post is some numbers that i have decided on for my cubes after relecting on my research. They are as follows 4, 5, 8, 12, 23, 26, 29, 40, 71, 74, 100, 181, 306, 505, 511, 559, 784, 1038, 1083, 1990, 2172, 3884. Like beagles in labratorys some of numbers mean nothing at all where as some of them are significant numbers that are now left in the history of these test labratorys.
