New Inspiration

Can't let go of fascination with twisty, spiralling shapes, and have just discovered a new artist: Janet Echelman, whose sculptures are massive, ephemeral, engineered and billowing. Amazing stuff - and her life story too. Am obsessed with the TED forum of speakers - lots of creative thinkers. Inspiring.
http://www.ted.com/talks/janet_echelman.html

After all that...

Got a distinction!!!!!


Whoooooo-ooooo!!!!!!

What next?

Waiting for my final result now...(fingers crossed)

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

~ Earl Nightingale

"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. "

~ Stephen R. Covey

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

                "Don’t start from the good old things but the bad new ones."

                - Bertolt Brecht

Sea Spirit

Here's my final piece for the show:

Hmmm. I think you'd have to be there really...can't get full experience in a photograph. Really pleased with the film footage - the layering in Final Cut Pro means that there is a ghostly second wind sculpture weaving in and out of the first.

Very serene and ethereal. Nice.

What I could have done!

 Found this sculpture by Andrew Currie (final piece, Falmouth Art College)- what I could have done for my show!

How stunning is that?!

The show must go on!

God, sooo tired!
Spent 2 days hammering tacks into a dodgy ceiling to put my thready sculpture up!
Forgot to take pictures of finished installation so must remember camera at show this Friday.  Very different experience creating for a show, rather than for yourself:

• pressure to have something "polished" rather than just a sample showing your "journey"
• pressure of comparing your work to everybody else's - and amazing things are pulled out the bag at the last minute
• practical problems - space not boarded; how to attach threads to ceiling; plug sockets; lighting; space too big or too small; aware of needs of others sharing the same room, their sound & lighting; physical exhaustion; film footage suddenly jumping and juddering; painting blistering on backing board...
• original artistic idea compromised or changed due to "feel" of the space

Re the last point, I originally wanted drama and movement, and was going to emphasise shadows and use the vigorous, boisterous "windy day" footage. But my sculpture just felt too serene, and perhaps using paper as a back-drop softened everything so I knew I wanted the slower footage with pipe music. Then the space seemed unbalanced so Clare suggested using my "Vortex" painting on one wall. So pleased to have some original art up instead of photographs. I suddenly realised how much using actual painting rather than print means to me. After all that cropping and photography, I've ended up with three pieces showing the whole object!

But the over-all mood is just right: serene, ethereal, tranquil. Really the most important feelings I get from the beach.
Come to my show!
http://www.hereford-art-col.ac.uk/events_details.php?event_id=275

And now, the end is near...

Sad times.
Last proper day at college, last work shop day, last library day...
But instead of buzzing with last minute preparations for show I feel very flat.
Lethargically sewed a bit of fishing wire onto stitched organza; half-heartedly tried (and failed) to print out Blog; lack-lustredly (a word?) burned a couple of DVDs, but all seemed a big effort.
Luckily everyone else felt the same way, so it's not just me!

Had a big feast at lunch-time as everyone brought food in. A real spread!

Yesterday spent the day in Textiles to sort of say goodbye. Have really loved my time in that little sewing room, listening to the radio.  Experimented with satin stitch to mimic scribbly lines in "Vortex" painting. Also made some felt to mimic the sunlit sky. Perhaps the organza needs some colour?

Having second thoughts about spot-lighting. Argggghhhhhh!!! Maybe natural lighting best after all? But too late to change now. But surely that little enclosed white box will show off my sculpture and film footage to the best advantage?? Darren says no spot-lights at Track so will have to get some myself. Had to hand projector back so can't experiment further.
GCSE marking (515 scripts!) taking up all my time so no time for art and lots of self-doubt!

Latest hanging sculpture in bedroom:

I like the pink "scribble" but photo doesn't give it justice. Certainly got a lot more energy than my first attempts.

I like the way that every time I construct it it's always different. I think I'll just have to trust it'll come good on Thursday, the day we're getting set up for the show.
My husband's just come in and said, "Is it supposed to be so thready?" Sigh.

What I'm supposed to be emulating!