Ooops! Been distracted with my external element to my main body of art. Me and an artist in the local area are getting together to create a collaborated exhibition. We are looking for an area to respond to, as we both work site specifically. Hannah Brown does a lot of art that comments on our negative effects to the environment with a playful but serious edge. And now that i am pursuing more complex tasks with my video installations, such as creating a living collage of utopias. Taking the details from a specific environment and producing a perfect place, taken from reality but not real. (which is what utopia is, utopia implies that the place is not real).
So for the last two weeks and the next week ive been in the installation room practicing different techniques along with different materials to create the environment i desire.
Ooo, and here are some of the casts from my 'the space between us' project. Which is developing nicely, just need to get more casts done. (trying to persuade a certain lovely male art student to trim and shave certain areas to help me with the task…. we'll see if he agrees *fingers crossed*)
In the photos ive suspended them, i doubt they will be shown that way. After much consideration ive decided that the objects have an amazing quality and need an intimate interaction. I want the audience to handle and hold them, to touch and feel the physical space.
An invitation to touch the intimate space between two people, myself and a lover.
i like the idea of the casts slowly losing their detail and shape after people interact with, essentially, the delicate space that needs to be nurtured between two people.
(to the right are casts from my praying hands, and between my and his hands holding)
