Now out of chance I turned my sculpture round to balance it against the wall, I stepped back to pick up the staple gun and realised I really liked it faced into the corner. I thought the tilted head helped signify the negative notions of my work and I really like the angles it created up against the wall. I asked my friend to come over and give her opinion and she said, ‘is he in the naughty corner?’ and it added a whole other idea to my work. The fact that I am trying to show is how terrible it is that each person gets rid of their own body weight every 7 weeks, and what better way than being sent to the corner. I think it also creates the child like memories making people look back on their life. I feel it is the perfect way to exhibit my work, and although I need to make a few alterations to the body shape because I hadn’t focused much on the back I am happy with the way it is going.
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Today I started playing around with how to exhibit my sculpture in the space I have. Like most of the artists I have looked at i’m interested in keeping the space very minimal so that the focus is purely on the art.
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Changing my studio space, to exhibition space.
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It was time to see how my latex mould has worked and unfortuantly it did not. I would need ALOT more layers and even if that worked it was far too tricky around the tidied up bit of the bin bag, there was so many creases and it was difficult to de-attach the latex from the bin bag, I’m also unable to pour plaster in the mould because there are too many small holes. Overall i’m glad I experimented with the ceramics workshop.
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Just a trial to see about putting my posters up around town, if I was to take this further I would need to look into waterproof printing so the ink doesn’t run in the rain, and a stronger paste to with stand weathering!
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Got my screen prints back from the workshop and i’m pretty impressed with how they have turned out! I’ve got loads of them as well so after watching Banskys film and being pretty interested in the whole idea of street art I was thinking about sticking a few up on poster boards around town. It would be nice knowing that people look at it and question them selves. That act it’s self is quite fulfilling for me because it’s exactly what I want them to do.
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Something that dawned on me this morning as I was working on my sculpture was the work of http://jaumeplensa.com/ he has done a series of sculptures looking at human form and some made in a similar way with wire creating a empty shell. I’ve managed to adjust the shoulders so i’m happy with them and I don’t feel the sculpture looks as manly, something else I realised was I needed to give my work some curves, adding hips has helped feminize my sculpture and I think it’s going to be smaller things that make it more personal. However I don’t want the work to completely represent me, although I am using my self as the subject I want the audience to be able to relate to the work and see them self in it. I think the hardest part will be trying to tweak the sculpture to give it some life nearer the end. Asking around people also seem to be understanding the deeper meaning with out knowing much about my work which is brilliant. I want it to talk for it’s self. I plan on having the fact written under a flap so the audience can choose to read it or if they simply want to enjoy the piece with their own understanding.
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So i’ve been working on my sculpture and have been really struggling with getting the shoulder and arms right. No matter how many times I try to remould them something just isn’t right! But i’m going to keep on going because i’m determined to make it look as accurate as I can!
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Collecting rubbish, hopefully with my flat mates help!
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