I started by collaging images of landscape, water and
animals – all representing days 2-6 of creation. My idea is to show how human
impact on the world, how everything we do actually impacts the world, starting
from the basic thing: taking one step.
Gathering the images from the internet is one way of
creating the collage, but it is not the best creative way, although I am not
focusing on the images but on the cover, on which people will step while
walking into the room. I believe the place for my piece will be on the floor,
where people will be forced to step on. I have heard about interactive
installations where people felt uncomfortable taking part and “destroy” the
artwork, but I am hoping they will be encouraged to do so if it is placed
somewhere they will not be able to avoid. This is not a wall piece!
At some point I had an idea to put paint in tray where
people will be asked to step on a painting/photograph but it will ruin their
shoes and I cannot have that, so as much as I like the idea of different shoe
prints on my painting I will have to dismiss this idea and carry on with the
paint cover.
One question needs to be asked: am I going to use images
from the internet or should I paint the images on the floor? (Well, not really
ON the floor). Again, all depends on time. Of course, if I paint the images, it
doesn’t have to be realistic as they will be covered by black paint.
The black paint cover:
To start with, I used kid’s plain paint in a sandwich bag.
It does cover the surface nice and does the work for a small area. If I chose
to take this idea forward I want to try and mix different mixtures in bags to
see how it feels:
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Paint with cooking oil
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Paint with water
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Paint with liquid soap
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Paint with glitters
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Acrylic paint (way too
expensive, I will need to mix it with water and lots of it).
For the moment I am using sandwich bags but I will have to
come up with a better idea for the paint. It has to be transparent and flexible
but also strong as people will be walking over it. There are very strong
plastic wraps that I can use but I’m not sure how to seal them yet.
Animal exploitation
The next step of human impact on nature was to explore
animal exploitation. Going through some images, I picked up the “relevantly
pleasant to the eye” as I want to provoke and arise thinking but I don’t want
to disgust and create antagonism. It seems there will be forever a very fine
line between the two and I am determined not to cross it.
Using photos of farm animals at the moment, hiding them
behind windows (the basic windows we used to cut of cards). Again, the topic is
“we rather not see” and I am debating if I should use images/painting of eyes
on the windows, and if so, should I use “beautiful” eyes, artistic and
appealing or will it take the focus of what is behind the windows? It might
actually be very surprising seeing the images behind the windows if the eyes
are artistically appealing, and it will be another type of metamorphosis, of
emotions and feelings this time.
The more I look at it; I’m thinking it will look good in a
3D apartment house model where the windows can open towards the viewer. Again,
if I chose to take this idea further I will explore this option.
The other option of executing this idea is using material. I
tried using transparent material and I like it. Layering the different shades
together gives and interesting effect, one can decide if they want to
investigate deeper and actually focus on what is behind the material or they
can walk away, and the images are not slapping the audience in the face.
However, if I chose to use material, I will have to frame
the pieces and make sure the material is pulled straight over the image. At the
moment it is cello taped in my sketchbook and doesn’t look very good,
especially because of overlapping in a very amateur way.
Looking up at the 3D model idea, the material can also use
as type of curtains, hiding/revealing the images.
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