Throughout this project, I believe I have definitely come on a long journey to get to my final outcome, and a successful one at that. Instead of coming up with ideas of something I wish to make beforehand which I would usually do in previous projects, I felt that the first few tutorial sessions and workshops where we began to mix with the other students who I had never previously worked with and to brain storm new ideas helped me to adapt to new approaches and methods of working used by other artistic students. I found the first few weeks challenging, but in a good way as I had never previously done anything like this before such as making a manifesto for my work. I will try to continue to use this approach as I felt it really help me get a theme and feel for my work that meant it had a meaning behind it. Which then led me on the creating a sensational experience.
One main inspiration behind my work throughout a sensational experience was the influence of flotation tanks. I found these particularly interesting having done a lot of research in to them online, and through Joe Rogan podcasts. After finding out they had some in Manchester I straight away went to get a first-hand experience from this so I could use the information throughout my work.
When forming new groups I finally thought that this would be the chance to collaborate with new students that I was extremely looking forward too, but unfortunately with there being too many members in our group we decided to split down leaving just me and Hannah to work together which was unfortunate as we had already done previously and was one of the main reasons why I chose this unit. This was not too much of a problem, as I know me and Hannah always have similar interests and always bring interesting and different techniques which work hand in hand to our collaboration.
After initially wanting to make some sort of hammock like structure, and researching into artists such as Ernesto Neto, an artists who himself try’s to create an experience for a viewer by letting the audience walk in to his pieces and he wants them to be able to feel, smell, touch and experience their own sense of mind through the art work which I found really inspiring through our chosen theme. However, this did not go accordangly to plan as not only cost wise was this not affordable but for health and safety reasons we would have to think on how we could hang the piece, or if we would have enough time/ money to make a supporting structure which I felt was too much of a risk at this point so we were back to the drawing board again.
whilst trying to create a similar personal experience like one gets when meditating, we decided that we were gonig to create a teepee. We first researched into different colours and symbols related to meditation combined with visuals seen in a flotation tank. we wanted the exterior of the teepee to be bright and vibrant to represent the traditional chakra colours, however wanted to play on the idea of meditation and escapism by keeping the inside of the teepee submerged with darkness keeping it a very minimal environment for the viewer. We made the tepee from bamboo and distorted the sticks by wrapping recycled fabrics and wool around, which created an interesting textured surface. The tepee was made from two structures, the inside structure is the foundation; which was going to be covered in a waterproof material, to allow for bad weather. will involve the fabric wrapped bamboo, which will also have a combination of knitted, woven and tied fabrics between them.
However, when we presented this to the fellow members that owned the rooftop space, they did not like our idea therefore had to come back to the drawing board for a third time. Here is where we come up with our final installation piece where we felt like instead of taking too many risks like we had done, instead from advice from mark and kate should work with our strong skills, so therefore I began to use photoshop imagery, and also create some visuals to project to be a part of the installation.
Using many new techniques within our experimentation period such as working with fabrics, and knitting which I do not usually work with meant that I was able to come out of my comfort zone. I was then able to combine this with my stronger skills mentioned above and believe the final outcome was very successful after everything myself and Hannah had been through.
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