Sunday, 29 July 2012

Final Piece for 'Collections' Project (continued)

Samples from metalwork techniques (top to bottom):
Acid etching, mark making and oxidise with borax.
From these techniques, I produced a simple design to incorporate a selection of patterns from the museum drawings I made. In favour of simplicity in design, all pieces were produced on square cuts of various metals, each square increasing in size when placed in a sequence.





I then brought this design to come full circle back to my initial idea centred around collections: my CDs. I thought of making the squares stand behind one another to form some kind of small CD rack. Needing a base, I chose to use a empty jewel CD case to make the backtrack to my original concepts clearer.

However, upon doing so, I've felt that the pieces lost their original interest. In all honesty, it certainly did not help that I had too crudely pieced it all together, using hot glue to hold the squares onto the CD case. I had originally thought of cutting into the case with a Stanley-knife to make slots that the squares could simply fit in to. Having attempted this with a sample case however, the method proved too impractical, not to mention most likely dangerous.
Plates 1-7 (2010)
Overall Evaluation on 'Collections':

Although this was my first project for college, I still felt I was at a fairly shakey start. At the time I was working on this, I hadn't even written out an evalution. However, having now significantly developed my skills in comparison to the time, I have been able to look back on this and see what I may be able to develop still from this experience. For instance, regarding the CD Blocs, I later considered the concept of producing 'impoverished paintings', artwork produced from cheaper, thrown away materials like cardboard, scrap metal and plastic and styrofoam. Ideas backing this up were further developed as I began to expand on other themes (namely coming from later projects 'Colours & Harmony' and 'Myths & Mysteries'). I also still have the clay figurines, which I will most likely attempt to incorporate into a future project.

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