I spent all day (a long day) in the plaster workshop on Monday. Doing more casts of negative personal space but this time using the torso. The cast was difficult to set up, a lot of hair was pulled out, and the final object was massive in comparison to the previous tests. So we are going to try it again, much to the disappointment of my partner, but this time we are making a rubber mould of our torsos which we will then use to cast. I know it’s not as spontaneous or actual as i would like it to be, but this way i am in control, and i can recast whichever areas i want and make a variety of test pieces. Next session in the plaster workshop is tomorrow morning; hopefully it won’t run through to the night again, but if it does then it does, the work needs to be done!
Yesterday i had spent the whole day in a park, in the pouring rain, taking photographs to test my multiple slide projections. And it was like pointing and clicking, this is the first test so i don’t actually have a set idea of what i am looking for in the slides. So i spent a confusing afternoon trying to take a photo of the ‘selected object’ in its natural surroundings, with a white background and a black background. Putting a background into an image taken in a natural environment is surprisingly difficult. I was lucky enough to have my friend and fellow artist Hannah helping me, a spare pair of hands makes all the difference! I got the slide film in the last post, first class, so if the royal mail is on its toes, then i should *fingers crossed* get the slides by next week. Perfect timing for my installation room. I still need to get more filming done this weekend, and edited by Monday.
Today was a lot more cheerful and relaxed. We had our elective choices this morning; i’ve put my name down for ‘marketing and self promotion’. I would have loved to taken the 3D skills elective but i want to get as much help as i possibly can to further my success as a working artist. I was pretty happy with the decision, i feel it signifies a development in my person – i want to make sure i am ready for this…. as in…. i am actually considering my goal as possible. At noon we then went on a field trip up to Resolven, just me, another student and our lecturer. Both of us needed to visit the area for our art practice, and we needed our lecturer there to help me identify coal and to help write a risk assessment proposal for the other student. We spent a few hours walking around the woods and searching through old slag-heaps. I really enjoyed myself, the company and being outside (even if it was raining, again).
Now, to get carving my coal…..
