Over the past three years, I have
come to develop an understanding of what my work is and what it is that
interests me. This year I have progressed more so than I have in previous
years, I don’t think this has been due to not knowing what my work was but more
it being the development and experimentation stage towards identifying what I
want to push forward with in the future.
I have continuously had an interest
in tangible objects and exploring many different ways of making, I have never
felt settled solely working with one type of medium. Over the first two years
on illustration I saw how diverse the work could be, and to not feel the need
to perfect everything but to use the facilities and try to make the most of the
time here as an discovery of my taste and preferences. I feel this has
benefited me in developing as a practitioner, my time at camberwell has pushed
my work further than I assumed it would, the tutors and technicians have been
supportive and so important in the progression of each student, especially
myself. Adrians lectures very much helped towards my research, and that has
been the largest element of building together my project, even if I am not
particularly great at wording my understanding, I feel I can show this though
the imagery and final work without it needing to be explained.
In the past I have used my
understanding of space in all aspects of previous work, manly working on a
small scale creating collections of different elements to allude to a certain
subject. The first project of this year was to illustrate a certain place; I
chose to do this through its surface textures, the space and shapes of its landscape
and the perception of its structural features. I used the Barbican Centre, it
has been a place of inspiration to me for the whole time of living in London so
to use this as a chance to fully engage and research its history only
strengthened my project.
When developing the final project, I
took influence from the earlier course project, this being the starting off
point was not the aim for my year, but it has revealed to me, my way of
thinking. The Barbican work lead onto looking at the perspective of its
structure, so continuing to analyse perspective in this way fascinated me. I am
constantly wandering around the city and finding elements of erosion and decay
capturing my attention. The way form can change completely with the slightest
movement of the light or its placement. The project began by looking at the in
between space that shadows create from the object and its surroundings. This
shadow gives it form and the definition that it is 3 dimensional.
The project has been a great
development in the way I want to continue making work, the way it is a constant
investigation, using experiments to convey an understanding of our perception
of the world in which we live in. Changing the way we look at our surroundings,
putting focus on noticing elements around us that we’d usually pass by. Being a
research project rather than one that will ultimately round off to a final
piece has been far more stimulating to keep progressing with, my only challenge
now is to keep up the development.
The final plan that I had for the
end of this year has changed due to elements of my work not coming together, I
realized this as being something that may happen, as it is still an experiment,
so instead I combined the different elements I had been exploring to make a
room of observations. The turning table shows how each object changes its form
depending on how its shadow casts, while the two different lights in the room
are showing the cross over of shadow perspective. The use of soft and hard
objects that will change shape over time is purposeful, as the original ghosted
shape it once was has been documented as that place in time.
Making shadows or the area in which
a shadow falls from an object, using plaster blocks to carve down the ‘shadow’
eliminates the shadow from the object but is giving the object a larger form.
Some objects will erode or move over time but the outline of its previous
existence is captured in the new form.
The development is the work, rather
than having many sketches of workings out, my findings come together in its
installed place. This exploration is the focus and so there is no need for
excessive planning and placement.
