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.  

Feed back of final major critique
Here is the feedback i got, from Ann
. look more at the temporary and frozen motion
. Consider scale and how can interact with he public
. Made sculpture with more fluid movement more open
. Consider using ice
. Draw a block of melting ice

Feed back form Claire
. How important is lights to the original making of the work.
. How can lights be part of the final work
. How can i realise my final work use of layers or sheets

Feed back from Matias
. Like the suspension in your work
. Drawing of sculptures interesting, can these and photos be used to explore large scale versions?
. To what extent is beauty important to the work?
. Is this about the original project proposal or something else
. Create material experiments of the final idea

Reflection of critique
I felt that from the critique i learnt that my idea for the final piece does not successfully communicate the ideas i proposed originally. The hot glue experiment people liked but it did not communicate the ephemeral or a frozen moment in time. A few people questioned if this mattered if i could not change my ideas but i was really excited at making a sculpture that captures movement. A ephemeral sculpture is like a oxymoron, as sculpture are known for being permanent, large un-moving monuments. When i talk about past practical process people like the expanding foam experiment, they thought it captured movement in a more successful way than the hot glue experiment.

I also think that i did not successfully show what my work is about. I want to combine materials, i enjoy finding out how they will react with each other. I like the fact that materials can be dependent on each other and work together. My work looks at materials in their natural form, they don't distort the materials and cover them up. I like to experiment with things that are not common processes, expanding foam, used for installation, i think it is interesting display this when it is usually hidden between walls.

Reflecting back on what Ann said, i do think i need to look back at scale. I have always wanted to make my work to a large scale, it has been my ambition to make my work larger so that it awes the viewer. I want my audience to be over whelmed by the work so that it becomes something that becomes distorted and looks more surreal. when something is either really small or large it changes the work, it makes people take note as it is not normal. I want my work to communicate the uncanny and i think this can be supported thought the size of my work. When things become huge it distorts them and makes them less recognisable. I think i want the audience to interact a bit with my work. I feel like my work is tactile and thought this i want people to experience it. It really annoys me in a gallery when you can not touch the work so i want mine to be accessible, it dose not matter to me if it gets damaged that is just part of the art, its a temporary piece that is effect by whats around it. I agree with Ann that i need to make my sculptures more open, more fluid like. I am going to be using lots of foam to achieve this so that it is spilling out of every opening. I want it to look like it has frozen in the mist of falling. I will not be making anything with ice, i want to communicate the temporary thought a un temporary sculpture. I want to try and freeze a moment forever and i feel that ice will not communicate this, however it would communicate the ephemeral very well. 

Looking at what Claire said, i think lights are no longer important to my work. I experimented with them a bit in the beginning but now feel that they are not important. I liked exploring how lights could effect the look of the work, but not feel that i want my work to be about materials, to experiment with combinations of materials. I think i need to take note of what Claire is saying about how can i relies my finial piece  I am not very good at making my larger ideas come to life. I think i need to look in to ways of building up my work so that it is done in layers. I think this way my work can achieve the scale i desire while keeping the interesting detail and form. I think i need to look at artist like Eva Hesse who builds up her work as inspiration. 

Matias said that he liked the suspension in my work, i think suspension is important to my art as it helps communicate my idea of the frozen moment better.Also i like how it changes the view of the audience  by hanging something above eye level it forces people to look up and engage more in the work. Matias asked to what extent is beauty important in my work, i have been thinking about this and have concluded that i don't set out to make the work beautiful i just let the materials make their own forms. I think it is nice that people do find beauty in my work and that it is interesting as i do not set out to make it so. I think this could link to my theme of the uncanny, something unintended through materials, something beautiful and grotesque at the same time. I did look at the sublime at the beginning of my project, i think that maybe this has influence my work and that i do subconsciously set out to make my work have some aspect of beauty. I think my project proposal has changed to a degree, it is no longer directly about nature, i am not looking at elements and natural occurrences anymore. Although i do like that my work has a natural aspect to it the way that it looks like it is growing or changing as if alive. The artist that i thought would be a direct link in my work also changed, i moved on to material artist, people who experiment with different mediums more. I did follow Matias's advice and i have developed more material experiments to help me realise my final piece, i think this let me down in my last assessment as i did not look at how to build my work enough i just expected everything to come together like i imagined. 


New idea
Through the critique and talking to my tutors i have realised that my current final major project proposal is not right. It does not communicate what i set out to. I needed to look back at my other experiments and see what was most successful as communicate the ephemeral  engaging the viewer, freezing time. I talked to my friends and they agreed that the expanding foam had a sense of movement to it just through the use of combining the netting and the foam. It looked like it could continue to grow and expand, to move and flow. The foam in a sense froze, it set while expanding so it had these tendrils that hung down giving the feeling that they could fall at any moment. 

The new idea is to use nets again and foam, but on a larger scale, a mass of nets that combine to create a whole. I want to have a large sculpture that people can stand under and be engulfed by the size. That can feel like it is about to fall on people, and cover them. A mass of movement that looks like it is frozen in the mist of change. 

My presentation for my final major project critique

Work book check with matias
.I need to link to between my practcal evaluationa and how it realtes to my idea
.Evaluate the pop up show in more depth and how it relates to my proposal
.Repond to the tutorial sheets
.My annotataion need to continually refwer to my project proposal and on going concepts
.In my drawing book i need more practical processes
.I need more discussion of the nature and definition of sculpture as well as my response in terms of progress
.To use more of a wide range of artist
.Have more response and discussion of theory and my ideas
.Plan my final peice
.Link the practical skills to my ideas and plan how to transplate this in to a final peice
.Keep refering to my ideas when annotating
.Use drawing, mark making and photography to explor ways of presentaion, also discus audiance

New action plan
. Look in to what sculture is to other people
. what do i think sculpture is
. how has my views on what sculpture is changed through out this project
. Look as non-sculpture artists, artist who experiment with different materials to me, artists who display their work diffrently to mine.
. Look in to the theory of the uncanny
. Look at artist who explor the uncanny
. How is my work uncanny
. Plan my final peice
. Explore a wider range of drawing methods
. Talk about my intended audiance

Experimenting with expanding foam and netting
I wanted to experiment more with the expanding foam and how when another material when combined with it and gravity can change and manipulate the way it expands and grows. I brought three different types of netting, fish tank netting with only very small square holes, tomato netting and garden floor mesh. I did an experimenter with all three testing to see with was more effective, the tomato netting did not work at all, the gaps were to big and the foam just fell straight through, the tighter the weave in the netting the better the experiment worked out. I liked the fish tank netting at the gaps were square shaped and a cool pattern expanded out.

Development of hot glue experiment
I have been looking at ways of building up my work, i have been using larger sheets of glass and a looser way of drawing with the glue gun. I thought that if i included more gaps and made it more fragile it would look more temporary as it could be effected by the elements more. I have also had to looks at ways of connecting it, i brought a different brand of glue and it is a lot stronger so it melted to the glass so that i could not remove it. To over come this problem i thought about greasing it, i brought a spray oil that i applied to the glass before the hot glue. This made it easier to remove it. I have also been thinking about scale, i want it to be a large human size blanket, one that can cover someone. I am not sure yet if it will be more effective as a standard blanket size or a larger throw. I also need to consider the time it takes to make, at the moment it is taking 3 hours per glass panel. The panel it only one by one foot. At this rate it is going to take me a long time to build it up. I need to think very carefully about time management with this project, i need to make sure that i have enough time to build the sculpture so that i can then experiment with ways of displaying it that are most effective. 

Looking back at my original project proposal i think that the use of clear hot glue dose communicate the frozen, it loos like melting ice falling down. I am not sure that it is as effective at communicating rain, it does not loo like droplets rolling down a window. I need to think carefully about how i can over some this problem. I also am worried that it does not communicate or reflect on the notion of the uncanny. I was really interested with he notion of the uncanny at the start of the project, i felt like it echoed my work. I wanted my work to look at materials and ways of using them in a way that made them unfamiliar. I think in a way using hot glue as a medium is different as it is usually used to go between materials, it is not usually meant to be seen. I think if i used the hot glue in a more dripping, falling way it would be more successful at showing movement.  

Ways of presenting hot glue experiment
I have been thinking about ways to present my final piece. The glue is like a material but i think it is important in the way i display it so that it communicates the ephemeral in a successful way. Suspension has been a  constant theme through out my work, it shows falling and movement in my opinion. I thought about using fishing wire to suspend it at different angles so it looked like the sculpture its self was falling. I did not think at the scale i wanted that this would be effective. I had a talk to Ann today, she helped me think of different ways to display my work. Ann also made me think of ways of including the audience  I could have the work displayed so that people had to walk through it. 

My latest idea is to hang the glue so that it creates in a sense curtains. People could part them and walk through them so that they got involved int the art. I have always like my work to be tactile, something that people will want to touch but it would be new to explore the audience archly participating in the art. I think that thought the use of people touching it and moving it, it will become damaged and tear, it might fall altogether. i think this would be really interesting, it would mean the work is always changing. It would show the temporary as the art in it self would be temporary. I am not sure if this is what i want to do completely as i think it is a bit different to what i original proposed. I wanted to immortalise throughout a sculptural way the temporary. If i do make this idea it would mean my sculpture is not forever, it would be more performance that sculpture in my opinion. 

I also considered just draping it from a central point, maybe 
nailing parts to the floor to give it a more defined shape. I am not sure if this is to simple it would mean the sculpture is just hung there, not growing out or flowing. I need to think about if this will communicate the ephemeral and temporary of just hang there like a towel. 

Development of expanding foam
I feel like the foam experiment i did earlier was not as effective at communicate the ephemeral as i had hoped. After looking at Katie Wallbanks i think i am going to look at allowing gravity to influence the shapes created in the expanding foam. I found some packing paper, it has lots of holes in it, i thought it would be interesting to see if the expanding foam would seep through the holes and create interesting shapes. I want my work to have more place on the foam than in Katie Wallbanks work, i want it to feel like the foam grew so much that it exploded out and became frozen in that moment. I felt like with Wallbanks work the foam was very minimalistic and did not react with the netting at much as i would of liked. I want my materials to react with each other, become dependent, so that it does not look like i have put something in to something else but combined them.

I made a bag shape with the packing paper and then squirted the foam inside of it. I hung it up and let the foam do its thing. When i came back i was really pleased with the result. The foam had expanded out of the paper create beautifully dripping shapes. I felt like it captured the ephemeral, the temporary beautifully as it looked like it was about to fall on the floor and that it was still growing.

In my project proposal i said that i wanted to explore the ephemeral, i think with he expanding foam i have explored the temporary as the foam changes, it becomes something else. The expanding foam as a ,material its self captures a moment in time, it freezes gravity. I wanted my work to successfully communicate movement to people, when i have shown it to my friends and family that said it looked like something that grew and moved. I think by these comments it does communicate movement, it shows change. I also proposed in my proposal that my work would have a sense of the natural in it. I think as it looks like a living thing that has grown and expanded it does have a natural element of it. It becomes something alive.

Above it a Photo of my expanding foam experiment, i like the way there is a sense of escape. The shapes that are created by the foam being pushed through the paper are individual and have a sense of beauty to them. I also like the way the paper and foam have reacted to each other, they are depended on each other. It is only through a combination of the two materials that the shapes and outcome are possible.

Work book check
I need to be more reflective and not descriptive in my work, i think i should go back through all my old post about my work and update them so that i critically analyse them in more detail. Also Clair said it would be helpfully to my work if where i have taken direct influence from artist i put photos of my work next to them so that i can compair them and analyse them together. Clair thinks that this will help my talk about my work better and analyse it better. I also talked about a lot of my theories and views on art i need to look over how and why i produce work. I need to look in to transformation and illusion of materials, questioning the nature of what i am using and why. Is my work tactile or ritualistic, do i want it to engage the audience to interact. Is it important to my work how i make it, look in to methods and control, is there a tension between control and letting go. is the tactility of my work and the fact that i want to engage people an underlying philosophy. Look in to Karla Black in reference to this. Investigate further methods of making which could become fundamental to my practice. Do i want to bring life to my sculptures by freezing moments or having them oozing or changing. Look at Fischli and Weiss for the use of illusion thought their materials, also Damian ortega who talks a lot about moments in time. Why do you like the materials you use for example, expanding foam, ts not usually sen, its a gap filler. Do i use materials that support each other, why do i like to combine materials and not have them on their own is this important. Talk about colour, do i want to be true to materials, why , talk about sculptural concerns of artists in reference to colour, artist like Craigg, Ciro and Deacon. The expanding foam is a amorphous foam, do i like this research into what this is. Discuss abstraction, not knowing what things are going to look like, how they will result. Do i like to communicate mystery and curiosity through my work, why, are they now main concerns. Also talk about your working environment and if this impacts your work.

Richard Huges exhibition

I recently wen to the Richard Huges exhibition at first site in Colchester. I thought it would be interesting and influential to my work as he looks at using materials and confusing the viewer. The photo above looks like mattress against a wall, it is not. It is a plaster cast of a mattress that is then painted. I think it is amazing the detail he takes in his work, it looks so real. I like the way he combines the plaster and paint to create the illusion, i think combination is becoming important in my work. I also like the way he has presented this piece of work, it looks like it has been discard. he makes it look out of place, a dirty old mattress against the white wall of the gallery. Through doing this he gives the work more impact. 

I think Huges's work is uncanny the way it is something familiar and everyday but through the sue of materials he has made it foreign. He has distorted the object so that it become alien and out of place. I want my work to do this, i want people to question what my work is made out of and to want to examine it thought. One thing that i think is interesting in Huges work is that with out reading the work summery on the wall people could just think it is a mattress, their is no give away in the work.

Development of expanding foam
I decide to have another go at using the expanding foam, even tho i don't think my first experiment worked out very well i was inspired by the artists i looked at. I thought about making a wall of falling expanding foam, i had a go with this idea but found i could not apply the expanding foam to the upright wall so had to do it on a flat section. I loved the shapes that started to develop and the wall it grew as if it was above. However i am a bit limited with how to display it as it can not be bent or manipulated once it has set. I think if i wanted to create an initial shape with lots of folds and depths in it i will have to apply the foam to a shaped template. I am wanted to somehow use some left over packing paper that i had. I loved how it had holes that got larger when stretched  I created a kind of pop shaped basket by gathering up the edges and trying an elastic band around it to hold it in place. I then inserted the expanding foam and let it seep out of all the holes. I loved how it tried to escape and spread, the shapes that were created were organic and individual. 

Development of wax idea
I finished my large version of the sparkling water and wax experiment. I don't think that is that effective larger, it looks a bit boring to me. I think the fact that it is larger also takes away the interest a little bit, as when i did a small version people could pick it up and exam it, look closely. I think i need to look at some artist who experiment with wax or trying to capture water. If i find inspiration from these artists then i will continue to look at ways of capturing water from a sculptural form. 

Print Workshop 
Anna did a printing workshop, i found it lots of fun and found the prints that i produced to be really interesting. We used acrylic paint and medium to paint directly on a a plastic sheet. We then placed paper over the top and used a roller to press the paper on firmly. The images that was produced was a mirror image of the painting we had done on the plastic. I found it to be fun using expressive gestures of the paintbrush, lots of paint to create deep colors  I think it would of been fun to print on to fabric as well, to see how the texture and tone differed to the paper. I think printing is a quick and easy way to communicate broad shapes and general ideas. I don't think i will use the method again in this project but it was good to learn the process of it for later on ideas. 

Lynda Benglis

Benglis is an American artists, she is well known for her work with pouring wax and latex to create sculptures. Her influences for her methods of building up paint through flicking are from Jackson Pollock, she uses mass quantities of the medium to communicate her theories. Her work is feminist, it looks at woman's sexuality, the fall of woman and art from a woman perceptive. I wanted to look at Benglis not for the meaning of her work as my own work is not feminist but for her methods of sculpture. I found it interesting how she built up her work through pouring, flicking and throwing. How her sculptures spread across the room, and looked like paint frozen in time. I also like the scale of her work, she used a medium that is not typical for building up sculptures. Her large installations make her work more interesting for me as they add awe, how did she make them this large. I think the size also distorts the materials in a way that makes people question how they are made. 

Benglis work for me has a sense of the uncanny, it distorts materials and manipulates them in to foreign forms. I do not like the colour of Benglis work i think it detracts from the sculpture. I think through the use of colour the work becomes less about the impressive shapes and form of the sculpture and more child like. I think it would of been more effective if she had just used white this way people could of admired the shapes of her sculptures with out getting lost in the bright colours. I thought it would be good to look at Benglis for her methods of making, i want my sculptures to have this same free element, this spontaneous art. I don't want my art to look labored  i want it to look like a natural occurrence, a growth or a pour. I also wanted to look at the size of Benglis work as she managed to make her work on a large scale but keeping the form detailed. I find it hard to make my work large and think if i refer to Benglis, how she uses a method i will be able to make my work how i imagined. 

I think Benglis work above, "fountain" is a really successfully piece of work. It does everything i want my work to, it freezes time, it makes it look like the water has stopped moving. I like that it has no colour, it becomes more surreal and focuses on the shape more. I like the drips that look like they are about to fall and the way it builds up in to a shape.

Looking back at my original project proposal i said i would look at the artist lynda Benglis, i wanted to see if through the influence of her work i could experiment with materials that created the illusion they were oozing across the floor. I want my work to explore different materials to achieve this.

Esma Pascal Turam

A Turkish artist who uses hot glue as a medium, molding it in to a fabric that she can manipulate, sow and combine. He work with silicone explores the theme of individuality.  Her technique of using the hot glue gun allows her to draw with he medium, Turam wanted a lace like material to create her forms, glue allowed her to show people her sculptures from all sides, create a paper like material that she could work with. 

I was researching artists who use hot glue and i thought Turam work was really interesting. The way she makes the hot glue become like clay, manipulating it and molding it in to shapes. I really like her chandelier, i think it is amazing how it Can look like a solid form when it is really fragile and delicate. I thought it would be interesting to see if i could use the glue gun in this way, directly draw with it. 

I find it interesting how deceiving Turam work it, it makes me think she has made her art out of ice, or fabric, it is deceiving to the viewer. I think her work branches on the notion of the uncanny though the way she uses the material. I looks familiar, people can tell what the objects are but though using a unique material she makes people question her work. I also like how she looks in to the uniqueness of her art, the way she creates and draws means no shape will be the same. I also like the way she has displayed her art. I think the use of suspension through out her art works really well. It allows people to experience her work from different angles and shows of the transparency of the material. 

In my project proposal i said i would experimenter with different materials and process of making i think it would be interesting to look at using hot glue as if i was drawing with it. I think this would give my work another element, would add depth to my art. I also think it will allow me to manipulate the form more and create my desired shapes. 

Lights
I have booked the small installation room in college for next week, i want to experiment with lights and my glue sculptures in there. I think it will be good for me to try out a range of different lighting techniques and see what one best communicates a sense of the temporary. My initial ideas were to use light bulbs  have the glue blanket draped around them at different levels. i don't think this will communicate the natural like i want to. I think i want to experiment with white and blue light, see it it cast a natural glow. This then lead me to think of how i can use the light, when i went to the light show at the Haywood galleries that had a flashing light or strobe lighting installation. I think the flashing lights worked really well, it gave a sense of disorientating the audiences view and also felt like flashes of lightning how it came and went. I think this would be an interesting angle to look at, combining two different ephemeral ideas.

I have an idea that my final piece is going to become quite large, i am not sure yet what medium but i think i want it to overwhelm people and make them feel smaller. I also am leaning towards suspending it having it hang above people. I know this idea did not work very well at the pop up show but i know know that i need to build it high up so that i can keep on seeing it from this perspective.

Original Project proposal
Explore the ephemeral and to try and capture a moment in time, to immortalize through a sculptural form the impermanence of liquids. To help me solve this I will be looking at artist such as Lynda Benglis whose art work appears to ooze and pour across the room. Thus I will explore the different ways to make my art appear as if it is a frozen moment. My work will explore the notion of the uncanny; I want to see if I can make my work effectively communicate the sense of the familiar and foreign simultaneously. I want to experiment within sculpture and develop my skills of building and constructing work, reflecting on initial experiments with liquids. I plan to create a large installation that involves experimenting with materials such as plaster, expanding foam and wax. I also want to look at the artist Alberto Seveso who captures ink in water through photography. I want to look at how effective his work is in portraying motion and take inspiration from the unique shapes his work captures. I will experiment with photography, trying to capture movement in water and take influence from the shapes create to design my sculpture.

I have been exploring the ephemeral and trying to capture moments in time. Some of my experiments have been more successful than others, the cloud idea at the pop up show i hated, it did not look like a cloud and in no way communicated the ephemeral  This is because i think i was taking my theme to literally, i have now been look at moments in time and trying to capture them in a different way. With rain, i really liked the idea of capturing rain but i did not literally have to make hundreds of rain drops and suspend them . I looked at the shape of rain on glass and tried to communicate it throughout the use of hot glue and capturing the pattern. Then again with water my initial ideas were to use clay to create a small river but i took a step back and instead tried to capture an element of water. I looked at different types of water, sparkling. I looked at the bubbles and tried to capture this through the use of wax. I have noticed that i am draw to try and capture a lot of the elements as i think that are very temporary and ever changing. This however was not part of my project proposal and so i have tried to come away from it a bit and just look at the temporary. I looked at materials, expanding foam how it changes and captures growth.

I have not yet looked at lynda Benglis i do not feel like she is an important artist reference to influenxce my work now. I think i should change my project proposal to maybe say i will look at the artists Alberto Seveso or Yasuaki Onishi. I will still look at Lynda Benglis as i feel her work will help my work become more informed about materials. I have not looked at the notion of the uncanny and i have not talked about yet if any of my work communicates the notion of the uncanny, i have had it in the back of my mind but i have not yet wrote about it in depth. The rest of my project proposal i think i have been looking at it but i have not yet wrote about it or refereed it back to my project proposal in enough depth.

Foam experiment 
In my project proposal i said that i would experiment with expanding foam. Today i brought some foam and tried to squirt it on to some cardboard. Later my dad told my that i would never get it off the cardboard so instead i squirted some in to a plastic bag. I then held the bag so that the foam would set in a liquid like manner. I thought this material would be a good way of capturing liquid as it expands and so would fill all the space and is manipulable. I found the foam really hard to use however as it did not squirt out how i wanted and started to expand to quickly so that i could not manipulate it as easier as i had originally thought. The experiment i have done has not set yet but even so i do not think i will develop this idea as i can not mold and manipulate it like i want to.

Katie Wallbank's
I Googled expanding foam art and i found some really interesting things. One artist in particular i found really interesting, Katie Wallbanks. " Wallbanks created work that explored the themes of tension, repetition, suspension, strain and weight. Her initial influences came from nature-the change, morph and repetition occurring within a wooded habitat. I found her work with hair nets and expanding foam to be really interesting, the way the foam oozed out of the hair net, froze in place looked really out of place and almost like a freeze frame. It looked like a moment in time, that at any point the foam would spill out on to the floor.

I just had a talk about how to visually analyse art work so i am going to try and go in to more depth with this artist so that i have a greater understanding of her work. Wallbanks work uses expanding foam and netting, the foam seeps throughout creating these unique and different shapes. She displays her work in a bold way by them being on their own, on a white wall, all ways hanged or suspended in a way. My initial thoughts are that it is growtest, it looks like a growth or a mold the way it seeps and expands, also thought the use of a net it feels like she has caught something, organic or alive. It also to me looks temporary, that at any minuet the foam will spill out on to the floor and escape. I think she is trying to communicate tot he viewer, freedom or escape, organic forms. The the natural shapes are moving and growing, a sense or time maybe. Wallbanks is trying to communicate tension and fragility through her work, how the netting it holding back this huge monstrous shape that is growing out of control.

I checked this morning and the foam has set, it has not gone in the shape i wanted but i still find it interesting. I love the natural qualities of the foam it looks like frozen ice, full of bubbles and natural shapes. I want to find a way to use this, i think i need to try maybe not filling something but building it up. I am think i could use thick paper, cut it in the way that it becomes like a net, stretch it out on the wall and coat it slowly in expanding foam. I am hoping it will go through all the gaps. I will try this tonight as i need to go buy some more expanding foam.

Questions i need to ask my self

Context- have i been looking at and writing about the proposed sources in my bibliography, have i looked at and if necessary redrafted my proposal and have i been referring my research back to my proposal.
I have not currently been looking at my bibliography, i need to make sure i look back at it and also make reference to the new things that i have been researching. I also need to look at different sources, magazines and TV, i think this would make my work more informed. I also need to keep referring back to my proposal as i have not been doing this. i might need to redraft part of my proposal; as i have started to look at different materials that i had not planned on using.

Research-how many sources have i looked at, have i been looking at a range of different sources and does it fit with my original idea. I need to do more research in to theories and artists and reference them better, evaluating them more critically.

Problem solving-have i been looking at the problems i have encountered throughout this project and looked at how i have overcome them and have i been looking at my theories and trying to solve the problems that have arisen because of these theories.I need to look at the problem of how i am going to display my ideas so far as the materials i have been using are quite fragile. I Also need to over come the theoretical problem of making my work communicate the ephemeral and the notion of the uncanny.

Planning and production- have i been referring to my action plan and looking in to my time management.
Practical skills-how good is my sculptures or photos, have i documented everything practical in my books, have i used a wide range of things and experimented with new things. I have not been referring to my action plan so i need to make sure i start to do this more regularly. I need to make sure my photos are better, the quality of them and that i edit them so that they are perfect. I also need to look in to ways of building my sculptures before i just make them as my cloud at the pop up show was rubbish and badly made. This means that i have to look at many different ways of using the materials and that if i use hot glue for example the joins are not visible and it is of all one thickness so that there are no week parts. I need to document better in my blog as i have not been recording everything as i am doing it i have sometimes been going back and writing about it after this could mean that i am missing parts out. I also need to experiment more with new materials, i proposed in my initial plan to experiment with expanding foam, i still intend on doing this as i have never used it before and i think it would be interesting to see how it comes out and what i can do with it.

Evaluation and reflection-how regularly am i updating my journal, am i evaluating my work throughout in a critical way. I need to update my journal more regularly and make sure that i write about all the little ideas i have even if i do not think they will be very good as it is important to show the development of my ideas. I think i need to be more critical in my evaluation of artist, refer to the sheet Jane gave out during one of her talks as this will help me to look in more depth at my own work as well.

Presentation-did i reflect on the church show and how my presentation as there, have i used a range of considered strategies, have i drawn a lot, documented everything, looked at ways of presentation in relation to the nature of my work, looked at what audience it is aimed at. I think i need to think more about how i am going to present my work, what would best show the nature of my work, as i am drawn to the use of suspension as i like how it manipulates the audiences view but this may not be the most effective way to communicate the ephemeral. I also need to think about the audience  who are they going to be, i am only getting critiques and evaluations of my work by art minded people but there will be people who have not got the knowledge of art or artists as the show and so i need to keep that in mind.

Looking back at my action plan
My original action plan

Week 1	Do research in to artists that look at the temporary. Explore my ideas though the use of drawing Look at developing initial experiments for next week’s show at St Martins Church.
Week 2	Research artist who use different methods to capture moments in time Experiment with capturing movement through the use of photography. Create an initial experiment piece that can be displayed at St Martin’s Church Install art work in St Martin’s Visit London galleries
Week 3	Explore the link between the ephemeral and the notion of the uncanny Research artist who explore the idea of the uncanny Continue to use photography as a way of capturing movement.
Week 4	Start to experiment with materials to create me ideas Research in to different materials such as armature, plaster on fabric and fabric with starch. Reflect on experiments’ in journal and through the use of drawing.
Week 5	Keep experimenting with different materials and creating initial ideas Have a peer critique and reflect on what they say Research In to artist who try and capture movement within their work
Week 6	Look at previous experiments and think about what material worked best With the most successful material build more complicated experiment’s
Week 6	Research and reflect on if my work is representing the notion of the uncanny Draw initial designs for final outcome with reference to previous experiment’s
Week 7	Research in to how I would be able to display my ideas if it is possible to suspend it Look at artist have suspended their own art work Reflect on progress so far with in my journal and through the use of drawing
Week 8	Finalise how my final piece is going to be suspended. Buy the materials need to create my final piece Have a clear drawing of what final piece is to look  like
Week 9	Start to create final piece Reflect in journal and through drawings a talking to tutors if it is going OK
Week 10	Complete creating final piece Decide how work will be displayed in the exhibition
Week 11	Install and display final piece Write final evaluation

 I said in week one that i would do research in to artists who look at the temporary, i think i have done enough of this, i need to look at more references and look in to artists who experiment with this theme in more depth. I did do some drawing but i think i did not do enough, i need to become more efficient in communicating my ideas through the use of drawing. I did look at ideas for the pop up show and i think i even started to make the piece that week. This means my plan for week one did not go that well, i need to make sure i do the things i set out each week. This is my revised week one detailing what i actually did.

Week 1

. Begin to look at ideas for pop up show and experiment though the use of drawing. .Start to develop idea for the pop up show

The second week was centred around the pop up show. I underestimate how much time i would spend on this project. I had planned to Look in to artists who capture the tempory. I changed this and focused on artists who where influential to my cloud idea. I looked in to people who had created cloud like forms and also artists who had experimented with my medium of fabric and starch. I said that in this week that i would experiment with the use of photography, i did do this, i used photography to try and capture the reaction of milk in tea. I did however have to spread the use of photography to the next week as i did not experiment enough in the first week with different liquids. I did create a piece of work for the pop up show and i did display it. I think i needed more time for this however and so i need to make sure that i plan enough time to make and display my final piece. I did manage to visit the Light show at the Haywood Gallery in London, i found this a really interesting exhibit, i think i should of planned for more gallery visits though.

Week 2

·         .research artists who have created cloud like forms or sculptures ·         Look at people who have experimented with the medium of fabric and starch. ·         Use photography to record the reaction of milk in tea. ·         Create an initial experiment piece that can be displayed at St Martin’s Church ·         Install art work in St Martin’s ·         Visit the light show at the Haywood gallery in London.

The third week i did not do much work, i was disappointed with my work at the pop up show and i was not sure if i though my idea was not any good. I did not explore the notion of the ephemeral and the uncanny, i still, need to do this but i need to first look at the notion of the uncanny and solve a theoretical problem with how i can incorporate and represent it through my work. I still need to look at the notion of the uncanny and i think i will do this this or next week. I said that i would continue to explore the use of photography and methods of capturing movement in water. I experimented a bit with this in the way that i photographed tea and beetroot going in o water, though i found it an unsuccessfully experiment as the photos came out blurry and so i let this idea run in to next week.

Week 3 1st – 7Th (half term)

·         Use photography to capture the movement of water

The fourth week I really got in to the idea of experimenting with photography. I tried different types of ink and photographed the results. I did not start to experiment with materials, i have only started this in week six. I did however evaluate the use of photography and the photos i took.

Week 4 8th – 14th (half term)

·         Continue looking at using photography to capture ink in water. ·         Evaluate the use of photography.

In week five i got a bit more focused and did more work than i had done over half term. I said in week five that i would to continue to experiment with different materials. Instead i evaluated the pop up show and looked back at what i though went well or did not work. I then applied for the this one wall exhabit in colchetser. I manipulated some photos and submitted eight of the ink in water photos i had taken last week. I then had a talk with Claire and because of this looked in to the artist Yasuaki Onishi. I started to experiment with the medium of hot glue. I also experimented with paint as a way of building a sculpture and looked at the artist Margie Livingston in reference to this. I did have a group critique this week on the Thursday, which i found really useful i also evaluated the group critique and talked about how it helped me.

Week 5 15th- 21st

·         Evaluate the pop up show ·         Apply for This One Wall exhibition ·         Look at the installation artist Yasuaki Onishi ·         Experiment with hot glue ·         Look at the artist Margie Livingston ·         Experiment with paint ·         Have  Group critique ·         Evaluate the group critique

I am currently in the middle of week six, and have been continuing to experiment with different materials. This week i have started to be more experimental and have been looking at glue and wax. I experimented with ways of capturing water throughout the use of hot wax. I did two small experiments and looked in to what worked well and what did not. I then took the experiment that worked well further and have started to build a bigger more detailed version. I have also looked in to ways of displaying my glue idea and what would look better. I had planned on in my first action plan to reflect on if my work is representing the uncanny. I have still not yet researched the uncanny and so will plan to do this, this week.  I am not going to draw initial ideas for my final out come yet as i am not ready to narrow down my ideas yet. Also i think that i have not experimented with different materials enough yet. I also have a work book check this week on Thursday.

Week 6 22nd- 28th

·         Continue to experiment with hot glue and different ways of using it. ·         Look at ways of capturing water through the use of hot wax. ·         Evaluate wax experiment ·         Develop wax experiment ·         Continue to build hot glue blanket ·         Look at ways of displaying the glue idea ·         Look at the notion of the uncanny ·         Work book check

In week seven i had panned to look at ways of displaying my work, as i am now in week six and i have still not decided what to make i do think i will be ready to look in to methods of displaying. So instead that week i am going to continue to experiment while developing the hot glue idea as i think that is so far the strongest. I also need to prepair for my group critique as it is taking place next week. I am not going to look at artists who have suspended their art work instead i will look in to artists who have experimented with hot glue and wax. I also need to look again at the notion of the uncanny and ways of communicating this notion. I also had planed in my action plan to reflect on my progress so far. I think this is still a good idea and will keep it in my updated action plan.

Week 7 29th – 5th

·         Prepare for FMP critique ·         Develop glue idea ·         Look again at the notion of the uncanny and ways of representing this notion in my work. ·         Look at artists who use the medium of hot glue ·         Reflect on progress so far.

Week 8: i had origionaly planned to buy my materials for my final peice, i think this is still a good idea and so iam going to keep this in my new plan. I then planned on haveing a clear drawing of my final peice, a plan that i could refer to. I am goiong to keep this in my plan as i think it is a good idea. I am going to add to my plan to start to build or construct my final peice as i think it will take a long time and at the moment i have a idea that it might be quite big. his means that i am going to want lots of time to develop it and get it right. I also need to look into ways displaying it, how to make sure it is going to be most effective. 

Week 8 6th – 12th

·         FMP critiques happening this week ·         Start to build my final piece ·         Look in to how it is going to be displayed ·         Get the materials for my final piece ·         Draw a clear plan of  what your final piece is to look like

Week 9: This is where i had planed on making my final peice, i what to continue to develop it. I thihnk this is going to take all werek as i want it to be really amazing. I had also planned on while i am building my final peice i will be reflecting and critique it thgough out.

Week 9 13th – 19th

·         Last week of studios ·         Continue to build final piece ·         Reflect on progress through out construction

The last two week i will need to finash installing my work and to evaluate my work.

Week 10 20th – 26th	·         Studios are being refurbished for exhibition ·         Installing FMP ·         Reflect and evaluate
Week 11 27th – 2nd	·         30th is the dead line for all work ·         Installing FMP ·         Reflect and evaluate