This project has been really incredible and I am sad to see
it come to an end – but relieved too!
I remember right at the start being completely overwhelmed
by the assignment and the process we were expected to go through – there was no
real “final product” and I found that stressed me out at the beginning.
It’s been really great to be forced to work in a very different way to how I usually work - on the computer with planning and an end result in mind.
This project – especially in these later weeks has really shown me how much can be accomplished – and how worthy and rewarding it is to collaborate and work on a big project with lots of different people, ideas, and ways of working/styles.
The themes we came up with of Hidden, Power, and Ending provided us with a nice platform to start forming ideas and it’s really cool to see how different people’s interpretations have been. Seeing work go and just be erased has sometimes been really scary but seeing it all come together today was a really incredible and rewarding experience.
I think undertaking my big concept for hidden in the space that I did for the first theme really gave an initial presence and feeling to our space – I think we all were relieved to see those gosh-awful doors be dealt with.
In the second themed week I was really pleased to see how we were all picking up on little qualities of each work when producing our own. I was picking up on the triangles and prisms that Skye and Mikayla had worked with. And it worked really well to create a subtle continuum.
This final week was a real collaborative effort and at first I wasn't sure how we were going to do it – because we all still wanted to address our final theme in some way but Tuesday was really big day for us with decision making and strategies and we all really respected each other and our opinions which was really great. We all made an effort to compromise for the good of the space in its entirety and it all came together really nicely.
It’s been really great to be forced to work in a very different way to how I usually work - on the computer with planning and an end result in mind.
This project – especially in these later weeks has really shown me how much can be accomplished – and how worthy and rewarding it is to collaborate and work on a big project with lots of different people, ideas, and ways of working/styles.
The themes we came up with of Hidden, Power, and Ending provided us with a nice platform to start forming ideas and it’s really cool to see how different people’s interpretations have been. Seeing work go and just be erased has sometimes been really scary but seeing it all come together today was a really incredible and rewarding experience.
I think undertaking my big concept for hidden in the space that I did for the first theme really gave an initial presence and feeling to our space – I think we all were relieved to see those gosh-awful doors be dealt with.
In the second themed week I was really pleased to see how we were all picking up on little qualities of each work when producing our own. I was picking up on the triangles and prisms that Skye and Mikayla had worked with. And it worked really well to create a subtle continuum.
This final week was a real collaborative effort and at first I wasn't sure how we were going to do it – because we all still wanted to address our final theme in some way but Tuesday was really big day for us with decision making and strategies and we all really respected each other and our opinions which was really great. We all made an effort to compromise for the good of the space in its entirety and it all came together really nicely.
I really like how this brief forced us to address and
respond to a space and how we have achieved a really beautiful studio that
incorporates so many different artistic styles that all work really well in
relation to each other. The term “collaborative assemblage mural” really
accurately defines what we have produced in the space.
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