I have changed my idea!!!!
It came upon a midnight clear...well around 3 am on Thursday morning.
As much as i loved the concept of what i was doing, i felt disconnected from the actual making of the objects. I have had this desire to do a performance piece for longer than i can think, but i've never had the guts to try it as it is something completely alien to me. I took this project as an opportunity to try this but as i have gone further involving myself with these objects, the more i have distanced myself from the idea of performance. This partly due to the fact that i could not envision a way to involve the objects within a performance and with time being of the essence waiting for such inspiration would take more time than i have got.
On making the sandpaper net it was here that i was first truly excited and inspired and i want to go back to that. This material is a subtle way of expressing my philosophy on geometry and human emotion whilst remaining strong in it's statement.
So with this all considered i felt that if i wasn't having fun then perhaps this wasn't what i should be doing. Art obviously cannot always be fun but i should be creating pieces that enrage a passion inside of me, not apathy and in my own belief my work itself and how ell i do will benefit more from my own enjoyment. This comes at a risk, deciding to alter my path in the project so late and how the work will be perceived by the markers as well as how well i can make a performance with the time i have left...3 weeks.
I will physically embrace the equation through the submersion of myself in a bath tub full of sandpaper nets.
Some sort of film performance will come from this, as of yet i am still to plan this in detail but it will show the risk entailed when embracing the unsolvable. How it can be brutal, discomforting, seemingly unnatural but the occasional beauty that can come from it in the long run.
I wanted to use the bath as my set as my own bathroom is pretty unglamorous, and acts as the reprsentation of mundane life that these events and problems occur in.
It's dinginess will create further discomfort and reflect back to the thoughts of anti aesthetic as well as being plain enough as to not detract from the subject matter itself.
Final developments will be done on the nets, in terms of shape[s] and scale as well as considering what the performance itself will entail i must think in depth, about the composition and lighting.
Hence why i have taken these simple photographs to give an idea as to the space and how i can use it.
Hence why i have taken these simple photographs to give an idea as to the space and how i can use it.
[I cannot believe these have aligned in some half decent way for once]
The lighting of the bathroom was a little drab, i don't like the light itself, not the position of it. The room is clinical yet dark due to the wooden clad ceiling, such a quality is favourable and i edited these photographs in a very basic way to enhance this drab, Grey quality. I want the environment, although everyday and recognizable to appear staged and in some way alien, as this is evocative of the notion of fear to embrace what we feel we do not know, so i will experiment with further artificial lighting soon.
Ramblings over.
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