The Next Stage....Outdoor Space

I am currently looking up artist to spark some new ideas!!!


I plan to take my idea of these overlapping lines and root like movement and play around with scale, media, materials, composition and location working both 2Dimentional and 3 Dimensional!

So I started thinking location and my previous work is indoors I felt it’s time to take it outside!!
As I was told by a tutor that I don’t need to be using such materials like ribbon and expensive threads that I can get the same idea across but using more simply materials!! That straight away got me thinking and I also wanted to explore using a larger scale as my previous work was smaller!!

I have been home for the weekend doing my washing and I am looking at this pile of dirty clothes thinking I could bring these outside as there already dirty!!

Then I thought I have to make them long enough to overlap and rolled them up and loosely wrapped them with ribbon or whatever I could find!!

I tried my best to attach a different colour piece of clothing to keep it nice and colourful!! !

Using my current location at the time my back garden as I felt being out the front of the house might not go down well with the neighbours!!

I only had so much dirty clothes I was limited to how many lines I had to overlap! I placed the start of the line on the wall as if it was disappearing behind it and continued it through the garden...

         Then I placed my second piece to overlap the first!! 

  I still had my ribbons from my pervious installation I thought of the scale breaking up and forming into these small pieces and then disappearing into the ground!!

 Playing with photography and composition..

                                                   I like how the colours merge together!!

Installation Continued..

Experimenting 3

Lines can be anything from threads to a painted line with this and my pervious experiments I am creating my own space again only this time making it bigger!

Because the box is bigger this time meaning I wont be able to shake it to move the styrafoam balls so I cut circle holes out of each side of the box and using a hair dryer to blow them around which I recorded, see below

 

 

I painted ink on the surface of the page and painted bleach onto the balls..

Using pins I attached the styrafoams balls together and painted every 2nd one a different colour..

Experimenting 2 Movement and Space

After experiement with the styrafoam I thought what if I created my own space!
Using paper I made up a box and like with my last experiment painted styrafoam balls 5 in total and shook the box but becasue the paint was wet it left behind splashes of colour instead of dots which is what I thought it would leave behind, but I still find the spashes interesting and like how the colours mix.

Using a pink thread to match it up with the pink paint and blue to track the blue etc, I used the lines to show the movement again and got a similar affect to the last experiement only this time it had more engery about it.

Then I placed a page with a circle cut out on top of the box and traced the images exploring other ways of using the space.

Experimenting!!

As I have been looking at underground space I started thinking about creating my own space within an object, and like the growth of roots, that movement that happens in that space and experimenting with different ways of capturing that movement while keeping in mind line and colour. I took this Styrofoam ball because it reminded me how I viewed the grass, your first impression of it is it’s a ball there is nothing inside, but just like the grass if you dig it up or in this case burn into it the ball you will find a hidden space.

 Created my own space within the ball....

 I got a tiny piece of styrafoam painted it with black paint. Covering the ball I shook it and the tiny piece had left behind marks of its movement. below tiny black dots...

Using different colour threads I then connected the dots and it created this overlapping of colour and line which later inspired me to look up artist working with colourful threads which lead me to Gabriel Dawe.

This does remind me of the roots and how they overlap and create these tiny spaces...

2inchs in size

 Experimenting with a smaller scale 1inch in size

1inch in size

1 and a half cm in size

Gabriel Dawe

Gabriel Dawe inspired by the creations of Anish Kapoor and Victor Vasarely.

His work is viewer absorbing installations made from thousands upon thousands of different threads and taken up to 140hours and 4 to 5 weeks to create.

 Although his method and installations are far different to my current installation I too have worked with threads and found it can be very time consuming and there is a lot of thinking involved as I had to work out which direction each thread was going by looking at Dawes work so did he. Other than our use of materials and installation it was the colours of the piece the bright happy, rainbow colours which attracted me first to Gabriel’s work as I too love working with this colour story, I feel the brighter the colours the more alive the piece can become, in saying that I will try and experiment using darker colours and push myself to explore different ways of working to what I am use too. I would love to experience this piece for real in a gallery it would be amazing to stand in front of all those tiny threads!!

Comparing Works

I love the way each piece takes on a different roll/direction and this is what I am working on at the moment I've made a starting point which is my installation shown below and now I plan to take it further by experimenting using different media, materials and taken it out of the class room and like Gabriel does with his installations 'creating his piece around the stairs', I am taken my work out of its current location and into contexts!!!

Nicola Lopez

I have been looking at artists that work with lines as there subject matter. Nicola Lopez currently lives and works in Brooklyn and teaches. Through her work in printmaking, drawing and installation, López describes and reconfigures our contemporary—primarily urban—landscape.

                                                  

She uses the gallery walls as her canvas when creating some of her pieces, she creates these overlapping and continuous lines that were inspired by steel beams, grinders and plastic cables. The lines snake up and around the walls consuming the space. As can be seen from the below image.

What really interests me about Lopez’s work is how she combines 2D and 3D. She does this by continuing the 2Dymentional lines so it looks like part of the 3Dymentional piece and it’s this combination and her use off mixed media and line that I love and I myself like experimenting with in my own work.

Installation & Continued Research

I have been looking at underground space and grass, being something we see every day but don’t really think of what is underneath the grass, the roots, soil unless we have to for what ever reason! I am thinking roots as being the senses that are apart of this underground space! How the roots move and overlap within there space reminds me of overlapping lines and continuous lines! To help me visually see how these roots/lines work together I created a simple page of overlapping machine & embroidery threads and ribbon. I used these different types of threads because it makes the lines different sizes like roots are, some ticker & longer than others!

I then decided to continue on the flow of this piece as if it were the roots growing within a space, up the wall and then I decided as I am looking at underground space to bring the ribbons down the wall onto my desk and down wrapping around the leg of the desk,

 I am going to change and document the direction of the 'roots' threads in some way for the coming weeks and go with whatever idea comes along within that time which will make this installation different and more effective,

I then cut out a small black circle and placed it underneath my desk to give the impression the threads were disappearing underground..

A Change of Direction

 I felt in the last piece that the overlapping and the direction of the lines were the most effective, so I took away the threads that wrapped around the leg of the desk and continued to spread out the threads as if they are growing and will eventually cover my desk

I am using photographs as a way of documenting the 'growth' of the piece, as if the threads are taking over the space.