Final Major Project

For my FMP I want to carry on working in my chosen field which is fine art. I am going to continue working in a way similar to how I was working in the Alice in wonderland project, where I was working with installation based on Alice's emotions. I want to continue working on the idea of emotions and using installation to create or provoke an emotion from the viewer. I want to use installation as I feel that the experience that the viewer of the installation is much more powerful and immersive, therefore would be a much effective way to provoke an emotion. Another reason for using installation is that I find it interacting the way a space can be changed or manipulated to get specific feeling to the space which can change a persons emotion, and I want to explore different factors that can be effect the feel of a space. As I am going to continue working with emotions I am going to research the way a space is effected by colour, light and size, I will also need to research other artist who both use installation and/or use artist that use colour or light in their work in a similar way that I want to use them.

Ernesto Neto

Ernesto Neto is a Brazilian artist, he large creates installations that fill and exhibition space. He often uses soft textures that are often made out of stretchy materials filled with Styrofoam pellets and sometimes aromatic spices. Viewers of these installations are then able to interact with these installations as they are allowed to roam around and touch the sculptures. 

 I decided to look at Ernesto Neto as i like the way he incorporates soft materials and textures in his work and creates a space that viewers can move around. This is something like what i want to create in my work as i want to create a feeling of exploration and excitement.

Material experiments

After creating the environments with the fabric i wanted to experiment with the type of material that i could possibility use and  how that might effect the feel of the environment.

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Exploring and Confusion

After looking at confusion and the looking at the artist Mike Nelson i then decide to create my own environments that could be explored. I wanted to do this so that people entering the environment would feel a sense of amazement and a little confused as if they were discover something new for the first time, this is because this is the way i thought that Alice would feel when first setting eyes on wonderland. To create the installations i decided to use fabric as it is moves easily and is easy to manipulate.

To create it i use three different pieces of white fabric the first one i did i hung the fabric length ways in a zigzag patterns so you either had to walk around the fabric or move it out the way to get from one side of the room to the other. I think that this worked okay but the fact that you could see the rest of the room detracted from the experience also i think that the simple layout of it meant that you didn't really get lost or confused by where you were so it didn't give the effect that i had hoped for.

I then created another but this time i hung the fabric in the opposite direction so it wasn't as long but went much further around the room. For this one i used two of the sheets and hung them about two feet apart and went to on end of the room and then did a tight curve the coming back again with the fabric getting closer at the curve. This worked a lot better than the previous the layout wasn't more complex but  i think that the way the fabrics ran next to each other made your field of view much smaller and the way the fabric was close to you made it a lot harder to move around the space. 

I then used the layout again but turned the lights on which i thought changed the experience again as the light shone through the fabric with out you been able to see through it and changed the atmosphere of the place making it feel even more like exploring. 

Mike Nelson

After focusing my work on the way the alice would be feeling during the exvents of the book, mainly focusing my wook on confusion. I was show an artist call mike nelson who is an installation artist, he uses extended labrynths in his work that viewer find thier own way around with the entrence and exits are often difficult to find.

Coral Reef

 

 

Installation

Installation art is three dimensional  type of at that works in a way that is either site specific or/ and is designed to change the perception of the space. An installation can either be temporary or permanent, installations can uses a broad range of every day materials which are often chosen for there evocative qualities. Installations can also incorporate new media such as video, sound and performance.

Sculpture

Sculpture is one of the visual arts, a sculpture traditionally was created by either carving into a material such as stone, wood etc or by modeling

Sculpture - The art of making a two or three dimensional representation or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.