Wednesday 4 February 2015

Box Explanation - The Squares Sketchbook

Box Explanation


The way I plan to go present this project differs from the way I’ve done in the past, and this is good I don’t want to do the same thing every time. Usually the format I present my written work is in is a lavish sketchbook which normally has almost no actual sketches. For the module before this one attempted a more interesting book style by placing a book in a dollhouse, before that I went for big always being better and created a huge presentation sketchbook which was only six giants pages. This time I have decided to present my written work as a blog for reasons I’ve explained but that leads me with the problem of how to present this work visually. For this project they’ll be numerous pieces, print outs, sketches, photos, maquettes and images, also they’ll be the pieces I create as build up to the final piece. Normally I fill my desk and much of Yeovil college with various pieces of loose work that fall into the above categories but this time I have decided to make a large trunk which I can then store the entirety of my project in.  I have several metal trunks lying around (I’m just that sort of person) so I picked out one which was large enough and sturdy enough to be the physical base of my project. Now a vintage trunk is quite a cool retro thing anyway but I decided to turn it into a piece of art, I scoured my workshop and house for a variety of images, I chose pictures of art works, quotes, cut outs from design books, art books and pieces interesting for their pattern and then encrusted the outside of the trunk with them. With this piece I took inspiration from Rauschenberg and Hocks collages and used found images and objects like Oldenburg to create a piece which could be called a piece of art in itself. Apart from being an exploration in media the work also functions  as a ‘sketchbook’ or storage place for this project, a presentations platform and as a sort of mood board. The images and papers I chose were to be used as a visual mind map and mood board offering  a variety of images to draw inspiration from and be inspired by, many of the images featured are from artists I can study for my project. It is put simply a place to store all the pieces for this project, but it is many other deeper things as well.

Picture to come soon....

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