My practice this semester
continues with an interest in playful, participatory art and its means to evoke
the sense of childhood within the participant. Integral to my work is the use
of strong colour - particularly the primary colours, as I believe that these
have a quality which alludes to and appeals to the inner child. Ernesto Neto
remains a strong influence; his immersive and participatory environments are
both ambitious and playful. Working to a large scale is central within my
practice as I aim to immerse a viewer by creating environments which are as big
as or bigger than the human body. I am interested in how experience can
oscillate between the real and the imaginary. I am also attracted to the idea
of making childlike environments in adult sizes. Helio Otticica’s work
interests me and his colourful maze like installations are similar to the work
I wish to create. Otticica induces many of the senses in his work, using
materials such as sand and water in his pieces and often asking participants to
take off their shoes before entering a sculpture. I am in the process of making
a corridor like sculpture, which will have barriers of hanging fabric inside.
This aims to immerse the viewer and create a sensory experience in which the
fabric lightly brushes against the skin. The use of tassel curtains was
inspired by Jacob Dahlgren’s The
Wonderful World of Abstraction 2006 and I was keen to use the tassel fabric
myself for its sensuous aesthetic quality and silky feel. I plan to incorporate
the use of balloons into my work as I am attracted to their simple, innocent
nature, their connection to childhood and the tension that they create when
trapped within spaces. I will use wood in my work as I like the relationship
that it has to traditional children’s toys.
Playing with the idea of balloons in spaces:
Sanding down the found pallet to make the wood lighter –
getting rid of the dirts and its’ past’, revealing a sense of innocence. Also
attracted to this shade of wood as it resembles wooden toys
Contrast between rough wood and pristine perspex
Experimenting with types of fabric that could be ‘passed
through’.
Imagining how the layers would look within an enclosed
structure.
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