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.