I have spent most of today reading my blog and updating some posts (see my now doubled in size artist post – especially the bit about Damien Hirst).
Anyway I am currently feeling rather happy about my ideas and whats going to be happening over the next couple of weeks, painting walls, constructing my cgae, hopefully a performance element somewhere and private view.
Calm before the storm I fear … oh well.
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So whilst I am in this good mood of feeling calm I thought I would take this time to talk about my final design a little bit more in depth.
After thinking it over and over again of should I use solid walls for my cage and create windows, should I have bars which creates the cage feel, do I allow visitors inside or not – I have the answers.
The solid walls are gone from my cage designs … they were helpful whilst they were iin the idea pool but they limit the design and where it can be exhibited.
By creating a Bamboo cage structure I will hopefully the desired caged in feeling, and although I will be covering up most of the cage structure with craft paper so that the areas feel even more enclosed and cramped by using natural lighting (and possibly some artificial ones too) the bars will come through and create an errie presencce on the viewer.
With this final design there will be three areas – I’m still weighing up whether to let the audience into the whole cage – but for the time being I am keeping it so that they can enter the middle section, experience being caged, but dont have access to the other two areas so that I can place items on the floor – such as books, blankets and plates and also possibly have sound effects in these areas.
