Updated Bibliography

Websites-

Skin deep, Dietrich Wegner, 2012

Online at- http://www.artslant.com/la/events/show/222771-dietrich-wegner---skin-deep

Date Accessed- March 2013

The Great Day of his Wrath, John Martin, 1851-3

Online at- http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/martin-the-great-day-of-his-wrath-n05613

Date accessed-March 2013

Alberto Seveso, 2013

Online at- http://burdu976.com/

Date accessed-March 2013

Alisha Wesselr, 2008

Online at- http://www.flickr.com/photos/alishawessler/

Date accessed-March 2013

Berndnaut Smilde, 2013

Online at- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21034217

Date accessed-March 2013

Yasuaki Onishi, Reverse Volume, 2012

Online at- http://www.ricegallery.org/new/exhibition/yasu.html

Date Accessed-April 2013

Margie Livinston, 2012

Online at- http://margie.net/

Date accessed-April 2013

Pascal Smelik, 2011

Online at- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmAGFlXpz60

Date accessed-April 2013

Katie wallbanks, 2013

Online at- http://kwallbanks.wordpress.com/

Date accessed-April 2013

Neha Deshmuck, art director, 2012

Online at-http://www.nehadeshmukh.com/Double-Starch

Date Accessed-May 2013

Lynda Benglis, 2013

Online at- http://www.galeriemichaeljanssen.de/lynda-benglis

Date accessed- May 2013

Esma Pascal Turam, 2008

Online at-http://www.dailyartmuse.com/2008/01/10/turams-glue-gun-chandelier/

Date accessed- May 2013

Books-

A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beauty, Edmund Burks, 1757

New york: P.F. Collier and son company, 1909-14 
New York: Bartleby.com, 2001

Date accessed-March 2013

The Uncanny 11, Sigmund Freud, 1919

Penguin Classics (September 30, 2003)

Date accessed-March 2013

Vitimin 3-D, New perspectives in sculpture and installation

Phaidon Press may 2009

Date accessed-May 2013

Philip Shaw, The Sublime,

Routledge 2006

Date accessed- May 2013

Claire Bishop, Installation art,

Routledge,2003 Taylor and Francis Group

Date accessed-April 2013

Jeremy Gilbert, Beauty and the contemporary sublime, 1999

Date accessed- April 2013

Nicholas Royle, 2003, The Ucanny

Date accessed- March 2013

Galleries

Light show, Hayward Gallery, Southbank

March 2013

Richard Hughes, Time is over, time has come, first site

May 2013

Action Plan
Through out my project my action plan changed, i added new artist, experimented with different materials and went to different exhibitions that influenced my work. I think my work had a natural progression to it. I found that as my project developed i became more interested int he concepts and theory that it led me to look at other artists who were influenced by them. I did stick to the main body of my action plan, i looked at theories and core artist related to them when i had planned to. I also stuck to the end of my project plan as i started to build my final piece when i had proposed. 

I think that the plan helped me to keep a check on the progress of my project. I kept referring to the action plan throughout my work, this stopped my from going of at a tangent and kept me thinking about the key points of my ideas. I think that i need to allow more time in my action plan as i was to ambitious, i though it would only take a week to experiment with some materials when it took my sometimes three. I need to make sure next time that i allow my self more time to fully develop a material or idea. I think that because of the action plan my time management throughout this project was good. I allowed my self enough time to make my final piece. This is something that i have not done on other project and it has let my final piece down. It also kept my up to date with my work books as i knew what theory i should be talking about and when i should be looking at certain artists. 

Audience
My work has not got a pacific audience  it hopefully will appeal to all types of people. I think it will appeal to children as it will look larger to them and more overwhelming, have a greater impact. My four year old niece really like the smaller versions as she did not know what they were made from they looked alien to her. My work it not feminist  it does not communicate political views or religious opinions. I think because of this is allows all people to appreciate it as art. It is made using house hold building materials, commonly know by most people. 

Final Piece development
Today i continued to build up my final piece, i added layers of netting filled with foam. I also tried to make the work more symmetrical so that it would hang evenly. I used a lot more foam in the outer layers of the sculpture as i wanted their to be less  netting showing as i think the foam in the expanding foam was more effective at communicating the temporary. I found it quite difficult to make the foam hang down through the netting, it fell off a lot, in the end tho i managed to use the right amount of foam so that you could see it from underneath and it would set in shape. 

I finished building it up today and i was really pleased with the final outcome. I like the size of it, i wanted it to be large enough so that it would be noticed on the ceiling but not so large that it would become to heavy to suspend. I like the fact that it is not symmetrical entirely as it then looks like it have been grown and not made. their is lots of foam hanging down lower than the nets which i think adds depth to the work. Clair another student said that she like the areas where just foam was showing, she said it looked like frozen liquid. This is what i wanted people to see and i think it communicates it effectively. 

I think my sculpture communicates the notion of the uncanny, it distorts the materials so that they become something new and different. It also uses the materials in a way that makes people question what they are. I think it effectively communicates the sense of the familiar and foreign. I also think that my sculpture looks at the theory of the sublime. I looked in to this theory loosely at the beginning, i liked the fact that it combined mixed emotions. I think my sculpture is sublime as it has a natural beauty to it through the shape, pattern and form of it, but t also has a sense of uncontrollable growth, it looks alien and strange. 

I looked at different was of suspending my work today after i had finished building it. I hung it from the beam at differed heights to see which was more effective. I think it looks better when it is one the beam so it looks like it has grown around the beam and not just hung from it. I liked the height of it, it allowed people to look up at it from all angles and stand under it and see all the detail. It also looks good when people walk in the door they can easily see it. 

I liked that the sculpture has many layers to it, through building it up this way it adds depth and form to the sculpture. It makes shadows and creases that look foreign and strange. It also looks natural the way all the shapes are unique. I said in my original project proposal that i wanted my work to have a sense of the natural to it. I did not as my work developed stick to this as i started to look more at materials and less at the natural occurrences in the world. I do however think that my final piece has a sense of growth and natural development to it. 

Tomorrow i need to make sure i secure it well to the high beam using fishing wire. I am going to use fishing wire as i do not want it to be seen, i want it look like it has grown out the ceiling not been hung on rope or chain. I need to make sure i attach all the sculpture from many different points so that it will be safe for people to walk under.

What is sculpture
Sculpture, a dictionary definition-"The art of carving, modeling, welding, or other wise producing figurative or abstract work in three dimensions  as in relief, intaglio or in the round." This talks about any work that is 3D, made from any material. The definition was widened in an online magazine by the British council of arts. They went on to say that sculpture is also "installation, land art, body art, performance art  text-based work, photography and video as well as the three dimensional art object". 

I wanted to look at the definition of what sculpture is, my work is sculptural based and i thought it would be interesting to see how it fits in to the category of sculpture. When i went to search sculpture many people talked about it through objects, never moving, never changing, a solid that has a definite shape and form. My work challenges this, i have tried to convey movement and the temporary throughout the use of sculpture  I have tried to use materials that change state that combine with each other. I think my work is sculpture but that it also looks a bit at performance, the way i want it to move, the way i build it up and the way it is made through combination. I think it will be interesting to explore this and see how it makes my work different. 

I was also very interested in installation, i have been looking at many artists who's work become an installation. i like the way it incorporates the viewer and fills a room. Installation is a kind of art that does not just focus on one object, it looks at the relationship between lots of different parts to the work, it brings the work into context. I think that later on i want my art to become installation based, to incorporates whole rooms and become part or the environment. 

Changes to my original project proposal
I was looking thought my project proposal and i think it has slightly changed throughout my project. I did not change it intentionally but i think it has developed as my project had gone along and i have experimented more. I am still looking at the ephemeral, this still interests me a great deal and i think it is something that is going to continue to interest me after this project. I am pleased that i have stuck to my work being more sculptural as i wanted to get back to making and experimenting. I have really enjoyed looking at sculpture as form and shape interest me, being able to mold things and manipulate shapes. I said i was going to look at the impermanence of liquids, i did do  this at the beginning of the project i looked at ink in water. That experiment influenced my work thought out. My final piece is still looking back at the shapes and patterns created so that my sculpture looks natural and fluid like. I have also been using materials that start as a flowing liquid and set as a solid. 

I said in my project proposal that i would be looking at Lynda Benglis for inspiration, looking at her work, how it oozes across the room and looks like a moment frozen. I did look at Lynda but i do not think she needs to be include in my project proposal as she has not influence my work thought out. I think either Katie wall banks or alburt seveso would be more appropriate  These artists have a direct link through out my project and i kept referring back to them. 

I said that i would look at different ways or creating a frozen moment, i think i need to change this slightly. I am still looking at the frozen moment but more thought the use of materials. My work became material led and i need to talk about this in my project proposal. 

I have explored the notion of the uncanny, i have made reference to it throughout my work. I think this theory was really interesting and one which i will properly develop in later projects. My work is most like this theory as i look at distorting and combining materials so that they become something new. I did also look at the theory of the sublime thought out my work as although it was not intentional people found a sense of beauty in my work. I think this is thought the use of combining materials and so i have also made reference to this theory but my project is not as influenced by it as the notion of the uncanny. 

I said i would create large installations, i have now researched in to what installation and sculpture means to different people. I think that my work could become an installation but at this moment is More like a sculpture. I need to look more closely at what i believe sculpture is and how my work has branched away from installation. The materials that i said i would explore have also changed, i said i would experiment with plaster, expanding foam and wax. I felt that my work branched away from plaster as i wanted to create a form out of the material and plaster was not strong enough. I felt that with plaster i would have to much control over the shape and there would be no natural grown in the work. I instead experimented with wax, hot glue, expanding foam, fabric and a little bit with paint. 

I said that my work should be able to successfully communicate movement. This is something that i have aimed for which each of my experiments. I think some experiments have been more successful than others at communicating this. I think i learnt that i need to look more at the materials i was using in order to communicate fluid movement to people. I feel like my idea for my final major project does successfully communicate movement and people will look at it and see a sense of fluid. 

One thing that i have not stuck to throughout my project that i originality proposed i would do was to be inspired through nature. I said that my project will have a sense of the natural in it, look at storms and clouds and rivers for inspiration. Originally i did do this, i took inspiration from the movement of clouds. I thought that the cloud project was unsuccessful and so took another route with my project. I instead looked at materials for inspiration to installing a sense of movement. 

Construction
I have started to build my final piece, i had originally planed to make a wide four by four foot sculpture that was flat but through the use of suspending it above peoples heads it would not appear flat. When  started to put it together i realised that doing anything larger than a foot was not possible, i could not manipulate it enough for my liking. I could not make the shapes the way i had planned, falling out of the net. I also realised how much foam the idea i had would take. This is when i thought about packing out the sculpture so the inside would be filled with paper or plastic balloons. I immediately rejected the idea of balloons due to the disaster of my last show at the church. I think i need to explore ways of filling out the sculpture so that i can make it to the size i want. 

I also reconsidered the shape of my sculpture quite quickly because of the way i was having to build it up. This is when i came up with a shape that i think is going to look more effective and have a greater impact on the audience. i want to create a shape that is roundish, it will then taper down in the centre, like a drop of water about to fall. I think this will give it greater form, it will allow the sculpture to be close to people at one point and yet expand out in another. I think i am going to make the structure hollow to achieve this and create it in parts and then combine them. I am really excited about the shape of my sculpture now. I am starting to be able to imagine it, it is uncanny and sublime and ephemeral and temporary, it brings together all the work i have been doing. It is now Saturday night, i am installing on Tuesday. This leaves me two days to get the main structure of the sculpture done. I am going to add the finishing touches on Tuesday and Wednesday, fill in any gaps and sort out how i am going to suspend it so it is even. 

One problem with this new shape to my work is the height. I had originally planned for it to hang only a meter from the beam, now i am not even sure how low it will hang. I do not however think it will matter to much to my work, i think it will add something if people have to duck below it and move around it. It would also mean people would be able to touch my work, something which was important to me at the start of the project. I will have to talk to Matias about this as it might be a health and safety thing with the height. I also need to looking to people helping me suspend it as i have not had ladder training and so am going to need someone who has to help me hand it from the bar. 

I forget to say where my final piece is going, i have been allotted a space along the central support beam. It runs the length on the corridor. I am at the part near the entrance. I am really pleased with where my sculpture is going, it will mean as people come in they will see it, it will allow them to pass underneath it as they walk through the exhibition.