Hello! It's been a while since I've updated on my project... due to the break, holidays and the new year. School is in full swing again and this semester is looking busy and difficult, yet exciting. I'm teaching a preschool art class at the YMCA on Saturday mornings, which after this weekend is looking to be a messy and valuable experience. I'm also taking Sadashi's "Way of Seeing" outreach class which I am really looking forward to. This semester we're going to the DIA and working with visually impaired K-12 Detroit school students in various mediums (ceramics, wood, painting). It'll be good for me to start working with kids again, they bring me back down to earth and outta my head.
As for IP, I think my review went well and I recieved some constructive and inciteful feed back. Some suggestions they told me to consider were (abreviated notes):
-Smaller scale= more diversity and emotion
-Explore more forms and structures
-Show the history and the metamorphosis of the forms, creating more unpredictable patterns
Increase the sense of mystery and engage the viewers more
Fold in, out, drip,
-Take advantage of subliminal associations of forms so that they feel the anxiety that I’m talking about
Get this in the relation of the forms and within the forms themselves
-Try using Slips—the surface appears to grow out of the form the way skin does
-Think about the floor and wall and how the creatures will inhabit the environment
As of right now I am trying to finish two medium sized sculptures and begin working on smaller scale works. I completly agree with the suggestion of decreased scale, I think it will help me to get my ideas out as well as get my concept out in a more efficent and clear manner. I've been doing a lot of sketching but it hasn't been allowing me to visualize what I want so I've decided to just start building and feel it out. I'm also ready to start experimenting with slips and washes because glazes aren't really working for my pieces (I kind of knew this but was continuing to experiment so I could figure out my options).
Another aspect I want to plan more about is how the pieces actually utilize the space they inhabit. Since the pieces I'll be making won't necessairly be as big as my largest I need to figure out ways to make the creatures seem larger than they are. I think utilizing the wall and making creatures that have multiple parts that spread across the floor could help increase the scale without acutally making them physically big.
This weekend is dedicated to writing my thesis paper. It's going ok, we'll see.
Drizzy
Drake,
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like some really solid, great feedback. I like the idea of using the wall and the floor to make the installation and the pieces themselves feel even larger or more chaotic. This could really help with creating different interactions between the forms and give a greater sense of motion. I also like the feedback of making the forms fold in, or dip out, making them less predictable. Still obviously from the same familiy of creatures, but by giving them their own quirks or abnormalities, they become more alive, have more of a personality and are ultimately more believable. I'm excited to see what's next!
Hope you had a great break!
Erica