Research, research, research. I think people who are not artists or art students do not necessarily understand the amount of research involved in producing or even proposing a piece of work. This week, once again, I have not actually achieved any ‘art’work but have spent hours online and in the library and out in the field gathering information. I’m researching Sarah Sze as I have chosen her as the artist I will write my dissertation on this term. Prior to that I have to hold a seminar with fellow students to contextualise my practice and compare my own work with hers’ and offer questions for discussion. This is actually more difficult than first thought, as with a lot of contemporary artists, there seems to be not a lot of written information on her work. I have acquired a beautiful, old and badly tuned, broken walnut piano that I am hoping to use for my final degree show piece, so have been photographing and photo-shopping the images, I know what I want to do but am having to put it on hold as it will be such a huge piece of work. I don’t want to make any mistakes, so this term I will be finding other musical ‘items’ to use as maquettes for the final piece. I am spending a lot of time in charity shops and antique shops lately searching for the ‘right’ piece. No luck yet though.
