Fine Art Final Touches 23th October

Final Touches 23th October

With this the last morning, we all had to pick up the pace and make sure everything was done and we were all happy with it.

After all of the work we did yesterday there was still a bit to do before we could say it was finished, but luckily we had a lot of the things we needed with us today so we could make a start. With a roll of bin bags and some black curtains we were able to get right to work.

We started by adding to the black walls with the bin bags. I was hoping it would be as if the dark depression was coming out the walls and dragging everything down with it. On the other wall we put up the black curtains.

After the break we had another group discussion on how the installation was going. I was worried that it was still too much of a remake of the original. After a while the idea of using the inside of the dark "box" as a sort of room from in one of the town.

Now we had to sort out how to make this into a proper box, covering it with more cloth and making it very dark and depressing. Luckily the drama department had a large black curtain that they kindly let us use, fixing it up to the ceiling we then draping it over to cover the opening. This left a little gap where you could only just see the end of the what was supposed to be a bed.

I thought of keeping the light in place and turning the manikin to the light a little so that it seemed that she was looking to the light searching for hope in the dark room of depression.

We moved all the tools outside and nailed them to the wall and put the bones that were the dog's out there. To the inside was the town and the outside was where the angel was, or heaven. The tools were the tools to create the material world and the angel was to take to the town to lift the depression.

With all our had work we managed to get everything sorted out before we had the group critic, but by that time my voice or what was left of it, was gone, I felt bad that I couldn't say my bit in the group critic. I couldn't make a sound. After the talk people were able to give comments about the work and most were very encouraging. Most said out off all of the paintings that this one was the hardiest to interpret.

We were asked if the dark room was a good idea because it was very closed off and when artists have used that in their work, people haven't felt like walking into a dark room. I wanted a feeling of darkness and repression because I intended it to feel like it was depression. I want the view to feel trapped and the little light that was in the room was there only hope, dim as it was. Maybe having this as a walk through room would sort that out and make people walk through it, but I know that will not always be an option. With most other emotions then I would open up the side a bit so people could just look in, but depression is different. In my mind it was important to have that feeling of dark and almost complete isolation. If I was to do it again I would have liked to make the room bigger so you could walk around the bed, make the walls all the way down so less light was let in, and have the walls flowing like a black liquid as if it was bleeding. In that case I could have a little gap where you could just see an edge of something that might make someone want to walk in and see what's there.

With the group installation done, I now had to think of creating my own modern take of the Durer's engraving. This will be hard, but I already have a couple of ideas in my head.