Back to Reading!

As a result of starting back as a second year student, I've been led to start this blog which will act as a diary for all the work going on in the studio. Armed with only cardboard boxes and tape, the first task set was a group piece - to create a sculptural piece with materials given...and this is what me and my lovely group came up with.

Thinking about the studio space we had to work in, we decided to make use of it by creating a piece you could walk around, something with the intention of being visually interesting from all angles and viewpoints. We wanted to 'open up' the boxes, to use them not for their normal use of trapping things inside them, but to draw attention to what was 'outside the box', as it were. Cutting the sides out of the boxes to make them into frames came from this - so you could look through the boxes like little picture frames, framing a different view from all different angles. Hanging from them from the ceiling made it possible to suspend the frames at different heights and make use of the tape.

After a discussion with the rest of the studio group, points were raised about the necessity of the boxes piled up on the floor underneith the hanging frames. So we got rid of them. One of the positive comments was on the use of the tape - the texture from scrumpling up it to stick to the boxes, and the lines it created. This is then what we concentrated on, attaching the frames to the floor aswell as to the ceiling - drawing the eye from the top right down to the bottom. This not only made the viewer aware of the materials, but also the room itself and the space it took up.