cosford/inviroment project 08

the startin point for this project was the new hanger at RAF cosford (near wolvo). the title was inviroment n the exhibition was about the cold war. therefore some poeple interpreted this to produce work based on war ridden inviroments. however, i didnt no what i wanted to do so i just made drawings from my photos, most of contained (unintentional) perspective, which is a recurrin theme in my photography. i did become very intrested in perspective so i brought out elements of my drawings to make somethin 2d 3d if that amkes sense.

i then strated usin string, which has become somethin i love workin with and will probly use it for my traditional moduel for this smesters work. my final peace came from these 'string boxes' what i made n i liked the pattern that was left on the outside of the boxes as well as inside (the interior was the hole point of makin these things). therefore i went along the idea of in/out inviroments. this lead me to politics......it happens in a small inviroment (usually somewhere in london) but we feel the affects of it...almost like a ripple or the butterfly affect.

i decided to look at n reserch political n social issues such as abortion, domestic violence, euthanasia n rascism etc. (influenced by barabara kruger here....i love her work) n all of these am things that i have strong opinions on so i liked the idea of bein able to create a piece of work that explicitly expressed my own opinions. final result shown at the top.

creatin that peace was a plain n simple pain in the ass....i made the stand in our 3d workshop (like the hole woodwork thing) which wasnt without its problems (its also based on like lectern things that people make speeches from, specifically politicians) but the string (or cotton as i've jus bin told!!!) was one continuous peace of strong which people kept walkin into cuz yuo could harldy see it so i had to make endless repares n in the end i nicked a couple of road signs n traffic cones from the roadworks goin on jus outside college....as yuo can see from the photo, i was gettin pretty annoyed with this peace by the end!!!!