Creative Practice- I have moved on a lot since my last post as I have now *nearly* finished my final piece! In my initial PLP I described that I would dissect clocks in order to represent time and how time is the essence of us, and more importantly, me. I have chosen to look at the brief of 'Where are we from? What are we? Where are we going?' at a more personal level, and in doing this I looked into different ways of representing time, which made me think of numbers. By looking at numbers, I am still following what I stated in the PLP as numbers make up time, which makes up our past, present and future. In doing this, I want to create a final piece which illustrates my time in a less obvious manner and intrigues the viewer to look closer and appreciate the time we have had, and the time still to come. I looked into how many seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years make up my life, of 19 years. I took this information and created my own equation of numbers which represent my time so far:
599184000.9986400.166440.6935.990.714.228=19
In order to relate this more to myself, I decided to make the text size 5, making it extremely difficult for the viewer to read unless they are up close and then repeat this 19 times into a block/grid style. By doing this, I want the viewer to come closer to the piece, and realise and appreciate the time that has went into the piece by hand writing every single number onto the wall selected, as well as appreciate the time we all have on this earth. Some people choose to ignore time and and not let it restrict their life, while others follow time, and plan accordingly which the viewers can do with this piece; ignore it or appreciate it. Whatever they decide, the piece will still exist as an exact representation of myself at this moment 'in time'.
Here are some pictures of the piece in progress...
A lot of time and dedication has been spent on this project along with precision and accuracy, which I hope shows in the piece on presentation day and justifies the concept and brief to its fullest potential.
Video Class- I haven't mentioned that I have an ongoing video class every monday morning which, if im being honest, wasn't looking forward to at the start of the term, but after roughly 7/8 weeks of the class, I have really enjoyed it and found myself considering using video in one of my next projects. I have learned a lot, and appreciate video art more now as I understand how the basics work,and the time and effort required along with an imaginative persona. We were asked to produce a 1 minute video in response to a theme of our choice, and I chose to look into lights and how they guide us through life and create journeys. As of today, I have passed the class and managed to produce 2 minutes of video footage which I have edited and altered to justify my theme by tampering with black and white effects, backing tacks and other editing tools which I named ' Lights of Guidance'.
Hope to upload pictures of the final piece for Creatice Practice next week!
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