I’ve been looking at the photographs I took yesterday and I’ve had a little time to reflect now. There are some changes to be made and a lot more pieces to make this week but over all I think I’ve achieved what I set out too achieve. I’ve been thinking about the overlapped pieces and they’ve been niggling me. They look beautiful like that but I don’t think I can bear them to be like that. They need to be individual and when they overlap they lose this altogether. I know they are going to be seen as a whole but I want them to be able to be examined separately too. I can’t explain why I’ve done it either except that it adds something to their aesthetic value and that shouldn’t be important to the installation. There aren’t alot like this though so I’ll change it when I go over.
I’ve been making them all day! My hand really hurts from cutting, so I’m taking a little break to write this posting and then it’ll be back to it. I’ve just counted 50 completed pieces to stick up, but it won’t make much of a difference.
Last November when I started planning this project for a joint exhibition I was helping to put up an installation at Wolsenholme Creative Space and saw mould growing on the walls. At that time I didn’t know what I was going to be producing but ideas where starting to brew and I just knew somehow this was going to be mimicked in the installation of my work. You could almost feel it growing and spreading infront of your eyes and it looked like a piece of artwork. I wish I’d taken a photograph to show you. It was ugly and yet very beautiful at the same time and I really wanted to spend time looking closer at it but I struggle to breath around mould as I have an allergy to it.
I didn’t want it to look like the mould itself but to mimic the growth. This has been achieved but not to the extent I would have liked. It does look like it spreading and I’ve tried to use some corners for the pieces to gather tightly in and spread out from. I didn’t have much chose in the pieces I put up due to the numbers I have made and I would have liked them closer together in some places so they looked more compact, this also would have made the ones that spread out look further apart. But i will continue with this project when it’s taken down from Arena so hopefully one day I’ll feel that it’s completed! Of course if I show it in a bigger space I’ll need more again, haha.
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