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.

Fine art

Since the 17th centery fine art has ment, art that has be develop primarily for the aesthetics, they traditianly were created uing painting or sculpture.

        Fine Art - "a visual art form considered to have been created primarily for aesthetics and intillectual purpose and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolours, graphics and architecture."

 

"Fine" does not refer to the quality of the work but the purity of the dicipline, so fine art tends to exclude visual arts that could be concidered craftwork.

 



 

Breif Rational (update)

After doing some work on the project my ideas and research have led me in a different direction instead of taking the book in a more literal sense i have started looking in to the themes of the book and the emotions Alice would feel.

I will still be continuing in my chosen area that is fine art but i will now be looking at installation art, which i will do some research in to to get some ideas and to help my work progress. How i will create my work will depend on the research that i will do to weather i stick to traditional materials or not.

Project (so far)

At the start of this project i was looking at Alice in wonderland in a more literal sense. I began by wanting to work in fine art, so i started looking at the several different version of the Alice in wonderland films and looking at the concept art for the films. From this research i started making small sculptures based on the characters from the book and the film, with this the general intended direction that i was going with my project. I feel that these pieces based simply on the characters and the book itself don't really work very well as they are not really my ideas and my thinking towards my work was to literal so i quickly became bored of the project and was running out of ideas.

After making some pieces based on my initial ideas i then began to play with the material that i could use, i started experimenting with wax, glue and ink. I think that experimenting with materials worked really well as it inspired me and help change my thinking and direction of the project, the unexpected outcomes and patterns of the materials made me think about the nature of the book and some of its underlying themes. I then stared noting some the recurring elements that i notice within the book such as size, riddles, time etc. I also looked at some of the underlying themes of the book like growing up, identity, confusion and curiosity. I started looking at artist work that were based or what i felt that could easily represent confusion such as Sol Lewitt, based on this research i then started making some more small sculptures that i thought would represent confusion. These pieces were just quick experimental pieces where i was experimenting with the colours and shapes to try and create an effect and show how you would feel when you were confused or  i tried to create a piece of work that was confusing to look at.

I am going to continue trying to create confusion and base my work on confusion, but i am going to try and experiment more on a larger scale playing about more with the shape and possibly sound as so far i have manly focused on colour and random almost automatic shapes. I also want to play about with environment try to create confusion or a feeling by manipulating the environment within a room, this idea was inspired by the work of the artist Mike Nelson who uses extended labyrinths in his instillation.

Sculpture Inspired by Confusion