The things you find around LSAD!

So today on my travels I found the skeleton of a bird, which despite it being disgusting was very beneficial and helpful toward my project! :)

Plaster moulds

After a few disasters (as shown above) I made some plaster casts to show the space that an egg takes up inside the nest which i found quite difficult. If I did it again I'd probably leave the plaster longer to solidify.

Nests around the college!

So today I went around the college placing the nests I have created in different spaces. I was influenced by the book Egg and Nest by Rosamond Purcell and how I learned that birds sometimes use human made objects for the base structure of their nests. From this, I decided to study the nests affect to the space that surrounds it and how is adapts to these structures.
From this I have decided to make a montage of images using photography. Here are a few examples

Nests

After wandering through an old abandoned factory I came across some nests in an obscure place. This interested me as I had been thinking of doing the same with the nests that I have made.

CCS project "above and under the stairs"

This is the photograph I took and edited as part of my CCS project "Up and Down the Stairs" I think this image captures the dark and dreary times people had trudging up these stairs and I had a student walk up these stairs to signify this.

Another image I took was the window and how it looked so dark and gloomy. This image had not been edited which I think shows us how dark and dreary a place this must have been at one time.

I found this project very interesting as it shows us our history as a college which we do not find many traces of while walking around the college which I personally think is a shame

3D work

I decided to make a 3d container of a giant peanut shell made up of peanuts

Experimenting!

I decided to try the paint dropping project again with popcorn as I find it very interesting how the popcorn comes from a little seed

Pinecone falling piece

This is the recorded piece of the pinecone falling to the ground. The paint symbolises the pinecone hitting the ground and the spreading of its seeds for new life.

CCS

So recently I have been focusing on my CCS essay and have learned about the close connections that Durer and Da Vinci had which I find very interesting.
The only thing stressing me out about this essay is the fact its my first and I'm not 100% sure how to lay it out!

Pinecone Falling

Here is the prototype of the piece I will attempt to make later.

I like the piece apart from the last of colour and I am hoping to get more of the shape of the pinecone onto the page with the paint

New Direction

Ok so havent really posted on this in a while cause in all honesty I was quite stuck after my assessment on what to do as my tutors didn't like my work and I completely agreed with them.
They suggested I look at nuts and peas etc. to symbolise like the womb or a confined space, which I did, as I was in the park I saw a pinecone falling from a tree which I thought symbolised birth. So, taking a step forward from womb like things I am working on using the pinecone and trying to remake the marks the pinecone made as it fell from the tree which I think should be interesting!

Martin Creed

Half the air of a given space - This video of Martin Creeds work has inspired me for my piece . I was playing with the idea of clostrophobia and I began to think if i were trapped in a room filled with balloons, would i feel comfortable? So, as a bit of an experiment I convinced my roommate to hop into a shower filled with balloons and see how she felt, after around 40 minutes she FINALLY felt clostrophobic, so moral of the story is my idea worked out! :)

Ann Hamilton- amazing installation pieces

I've been finding it incredibly difficult to find artists to inspire me with my project at the moment. FINALLY though, I have discovered a few, them being Ann Hamilton who I adore, Marc Quinn and Martin Creed who my tutor advised me to focus on. His work has really inspired me as you can see for yourself with all the balloons!:)

3D finally finished!

This is the 3D piece I made of a foetus in the womb, I put the piece together by using liquid latex tinted to get a skin-like feel and look and used clear gelatine to make the amniotic sack.

Since making this piece I have used more abstract ideas to signify the feeling of being in a womb, such as the balloons.

I am also looking in to cuccoons as that is quite similar and I find it very interesting

Conceptual Development

After we are born we feel the need to have the same sense of security as we did when in the womb. When young children feel unsafe they retreat to a cupboard, under the bed or a duvet to feel more safe and secure.
When we are born the first thing a midwife does is touch the bottom of our feet so the baby feels more secure, the is also why a newborn baby is wrapped up so tightly.

I have decided to work on this idea by taking images of it.

Images for conceptual development