Studio space is ready now for the second part of my studio practice. Everything is clear and organised now, making everything handy and ready to go.
Pictures from Tesco have arrived so I can spend the day tomorrow in the studio working on my sketchbook making notes, observing what I have done in the last month or so and preparing for the next round of work.
I still need to go through all current art magazines and print some thoughtful art to put on the wall.
Projects that I have in mind are to:
Keep the drawings going, bigger, sculptural, colourful or not so colourful, funny and not so funny… I want to work on the idea of an on and off, black or white representing two behaviours, they depend on each other to exist.
Finish the armature and start imagining situations, locations, narrative to start planning some shooting with the camera. I’m a bit less keen on making a film with actors and all the things I was planning. I think this idea was scaring me too much as this will imply a lot of planning and organising other people, therefore I’m going to work with a simplier idea. The performance ideally will be screened in a single monitor in the degree show and together with the rest of the work will help to tie things up.
The fabrics samples are juicy and I can’t wait to see if what I have got in mind is viable or not. My plan is to divided and classify the fabrics in colours and then after having done some drawings, to sew together the squares creating patterns with the colours. Let’s say imagine a long piece of fabric, 5 meters long, 4 meters wide with a tetris kind of pattern created by joining together all the blues, oranges, pinks tones… like a large quilt really. I’m not sure if this will work but I’m positve that this plan will bring some work somewhow whether are drawings or the actual quilt.
I have also put myself forward to take the SEA LIFE Centre proposal. They were looking for students to create an Octopod (from the TV children cartoons Octonauts in Cbeebies) in their educational room for the 23rd March. Me and a second year painting student are going to work together to create an under the water atmosphere in that room, where other games and activities are going to be provided for the children. I’m so excited about this too, it will be a good opportunity to prove and to expand my making and collaborating kills, and more important to follow a brief and to achieve it. There is potential in this for my future and it is worth a go, a big one. I will get free visits too for Simon, Lola and I for a whole year in the SEA LIFE centre. Lola is so excited about this and she is planning to help designing fabric octopus and sea life creatures too. She is so creative too and she is only 3 and a half. Love it.
I’m not sure if I’m taking too much (I couldn’t sleep I’ve been thinking about how to recreate a seabed, make octopus, starfishes…!!!), because I’m already quite tired physically (but still positve and smiling) and I still have 3 more months until degree show. I think this is the year of challenges and the year to work hard for the future, so I will be able to put my feet up this Summer and drink wine in the garden…
