Starting my outcome✏
I had planned out my weeks from now until the end of the course, so I can get my outcome made and documented to the best of my ability, i.e. making sure it's covered on all areas for the online submission.
As my piece is an installation, documenting it is going to be really important. With the current situation, no-one assessing my work will see it themselves, so I want to do with videos and photos to get the full experience.
At the start of this weeks college day, I started off with enlarging my design onto the wood. I used the projector to get the scale perfect. I drew my design onto the acetate, with a few different materials, to then project and draw on with light pencil lines.
Once this was done, I went into the workshop and added my nails on every area the material would loop around. This was quite time consuming as I wanted to make sure every nail covered all the curves, lines, etc.
Once the nails were in, the next step was to try out materials. I originally was going to use string, as it worked so well on the prototype. I found some coloured string - pink, and some shades of blue - linking to my research, and used this to begin with.
After looking at this outcome, something was not right. I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I took a step back and started to deliberate what it was.
On a smaller scale, the thin thread was quite thick, so once scaled up, the line would look even thinner. I thought using a thicker material may change my opinion, and give my piece the look I wanted. I chose some material that really interested me - it was an old towel, with this really amazing texture, and perfect colours. See the images below:
I absolutely love the outcome and how the thicker material works. It adds a natural element to the two figures, enhancing that vulnerability, and the fact both genders are equal to eachother, where as the separate colours start to drift away from this. I think adding the first set of thread onto the outcome helped me pinpoint what I wanted from the piece - people to relate and for the figures to not draw attention to the difference, and draw attention to the community, the togetherness, the feeling that we can work with eachother, it is possible. It is possible to change.
See my sketchbook pages documenting this:
