Monday 3 November

When I was showing off my installation to my tutor and peers I wanted their advice of how I could improve it and develop my sample more. With looking carefully at my work I wasn’t that sure if I want to create an organic shapes because in my visual research the idea of lines and creating reputation within lines.  Due to the fact that I was just pinning the elastic up I wasn’t manipulation to its strengths because elastic is stretchy and I need to manipulated of this idea. So I started working on using different tensions and stretching the elastic in different ways such as I was spearing the elastic from the colour thread to see how this would change the environment. After I had finished pinning and taping all the elastic to the window I stood back from the installation and I thought that something was missing. I felt that it didn’t have that interaction with the audience of what I wanted it to have. The installation that I created was terrible and I felt that it was rubbish so I had to think back to my visual and artist research to think of more ideas. What kept showing through my research was this use of line and how I could manipulate it with different materials. Also the artist that stood out the most to me was Vancouver with the use of neon colours and lines, Olafur Eliasson and her use of kaleidoscopic lights however with this artist what I really thought I could take influence from is her use of mirrored materials and how she has change them. Another artist that I looked into was Crystal Wagner because of the fact that she uses a lot of paper and cheap dollar store objects and I could related so much to this because the majority of work has this aspects in them and I wanted to see if I could bring these aspects more into my work.