Hello !
Eeek, sorry it has been so long since I have made a post! It's been a really
busy few months for me, but still, no excuses haha!
I have been doing quite a few
commissions since I graduated third year, so I have not stopped to
write about my finished third year work, so here goes!
This was a big project for me so be prepared for a looong blog post with lots of photos!
It would appear with every new project I undertake my work seems to get bigger and bigger.
I walked into my allocated studio space in third year, confronted by a large white wall. If I am honest I knew instantly that there was no way that wall was going to stay white.
I think at first I was just going to allow myself to essentially 'doodle' on the wall, to use it as a large visual sketchbook in order to free up my imagination a bit, in hope of coming up with a new project idea. Before actually starting this however, I realised I was far more excited about the prospect of just transforming the white space into something colourful and new, than I was even thinking about any other project. I began to have visions of a grand wall of colour or some kind of thing growing out of the wall and taking over the space.
Before I knew it I was creating my next work, and the transformation began!
Here I will show the final outcome, and I will write a second blog post of how I constructed it, as I have so many photos I think it needs to be broken down into a couple sections.
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| Taking a step back to see the final work |
Given more time I think I could have just kept painting more and more...
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| Taken by me standing on a very tall ladder to get this angle |
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| I had painted onto the doors of the studio |
I had found and painted lots of miscellaneous objects and hundreds of balls in a variety of sizes, I also used different shapes that I molded and built to be part of the installation.
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| A close up to show the detail |
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| The ground section moving out into the studio |
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| I painted over the studio light switches |
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| Enjoying the colour one last time before I had to destroy it! |
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| Meanwhile.... in another part of the studio |
I had one day to take a step back, after months and months of work and actually enjoy what I had created. Then I had to destroy the entire thing and have the studio back 'as good as new'.
Painted white.
Before I knew it, I had gone full circle, I had created, injected the studio with an obnoxious amount of vibrant colour, swirls, and shapes and then it was all white walls again!
I have to say, I found the deconstruction of the work, and painting over it to be quite emotional. I think after putting in so many hours, days and months! then in the end how happy I was with the way it looked, I knew it would be hard but I think the worst part was when I found myself stood staring at the same blank walls I was confronted with at start of the year. It was as if I'd never even been there at all...
Click this link to watch the video of me deconstructing my installation !
Keep an eye out as I will be posting more about how I built this soon!!
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Alexzandria
