Excitement

The excitement is kicking in now, looking forward to putting everything together and seeing the final outcome to what I and everyone else has been working towards the past few weeks. I just hope that visually it will look as good as it does in my head! - Fingers crossed! Hope you all can make it to the private opening! - SEE YOU THERE!

Inspiration: Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer is an artist that works with text. Although her work differs from mine in the sense of that she uses provocative statements in exhibitions or public places to create a debate, whilst I work with short stories and diary entries that are more of a lengthier piece of text. I like how her work presents a rhetorical strategies of different forms of speech and writings. Her particular piece that I like is the projections against monumental buildings, this gave me the idea to project against the wall in Degree show exhibition.

Preparations

Just in the studio doing some final preparations for the installation part for the degree show.

Projection

I am having difficulty deciding what text to use as the projection, I can't fit all of the text 'A Diary from an Ordinary Girl' 2012 on the projection, as it will be too small, plus viewers won't want to stand and read it all, I want it short, snappy to the point - so the viewer can gain all the knowledge they need to know instantly, or they go away with something they can think about. If they want to read the rest of the text piece then they can find it on my blog.

Stop if you Think you've Heard This One Before!

This was an exhibition set up by some 2nd year students, I was impressed with the variety of work and with the catalogue.

Facebook Event

Here is a Facebook Event that some fellow contemporaries have set up for the private opening for the Degree Show. It is a public event so anyone is able to put that they are attending:

Click Here  to take you to the page.

Visual Bibliography

I have nearly completed my visual bibliography, I feel I have had some strong influences throughout this project such as, artists, books and words; they helped me tremendously with the reasoning behind my work. I'm getting the final preparations done before I am able to start setting up the exhibition next week. The sound piece 'A woman with a Story' I am really pleased with, all that's left is the final decision 'text' that will be projected into the room. It is hard to visualize what the final piece will look like - let's hope it will look as good as it does in my head!

Business Card

I have just ordered my business cards to put near my exhibition for people to take away with them if they wish, I am excited for them to arrive to see what they look like. I used the images of my work that Dave Overton took, which will also be in the catalogue. I kept them simple on the back with only relevant information.

Influence: Yayoi Kusama

'The Obliteration Room' 

Projection

I have decided that instead of having two sound pieces I will have one playing out loud and one projected onto the back wall, so that it is presented in a way that the viewer can still read it and it will be part of the work. I have been experimenting with different pens and sizing to insure I get it looking perfect. I am handwriting it, as this gives it a personal feel to it, like the sound piece has to it, it is also going to be projected using OHP as this makes it look as though its an old page torn out of a diary.