Note

This is my blog/online workbook documenting; exercises, thoughts, ideas and processes for my studio paper 213.158 Art Place.

I originally started using a physical workbook to illustrate my progress through the paper but have since decided to make the switch to an online form of documentation so please bear with my first few posts which are pictures of my physical workbook.

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Friday, 10 October 2014

Installing my pyramids

On Sunday I took my pyramids in along with all the other bits and bobs, all prepped to hang my pyramids. I was intending to hang them very low - with the lowest almost touching the floor - where the area I had just painted black, met the white wall that had the anatomical bird on it. I thought it would add to the "horizon line" landscape I was trying to suggest. Unfortunately when I arrived at the studio, Sam had painted a little door with a flock of birds in that space so I had to rethink my location.
At this point I decided to maybe work with the other extreme of having them sit very high rather than low.
Looking around the room I noted that the space on the wall between my original set of doors, and Skye's hung door was bare. I considered this space and liked the fact that it faces opposite to the wall where Mikayla had done her triangle work in week 1. I attempted to put hooks in the ceiling but when I got up the ladder discovered a fear that I wasn't aware of, luckily my mum was able to help me out and get the hooks in the ceiling. This also allowed me to stand on the ground and decide on the positioning of the pyramids.
I wanted them to be clustered so that the light would shadow as much of them as possible, but also because I think of power as being quite compact rather than spread.




I liked the view from beneath the pyramids as they kind of reminded me of stars, and I felt like being under them meant I absorbing the energy.