This week has been hectic, to say the least. My space was finally "officially confirmed" so that I could start planning how I'm going to make prints over break (how many/how large etc.) ...I was given the hallway and alcove off of the Lecture Hall in the Senior Building, which is a great space that can be used in a lot of different ways. My mentor, Alexis, spent some time with me there earlier in the week and we looked at different ways of using both the hall and the alcove. We decided on making several large format prints on a plotter printer here at school and then projecting my film onto the end of the hallway. I met with Bill Matejovic on Tuesday to figure out if making high resolution prints was a possibility on our plotter printers. We went down to look at it and realized that it can only print half as large as I needed in order to execute this properly. Needless to say, I panicked a bit and had my dad/outside consultant come to school and look at the space with me. I hadn't even considered how narrow the hallway is, and, in order to fully appreciate/take in such large prints, people would need more space than there is available. We've decided to abandon the hallspace altogether and just use the alcove for several reasons:
1. logistics - in order to make prints that large, I would either have to make a sort of puzzle/mosaic of several prints which would not look very good OR spend hundreds of dollars on prints made at a lab where I wouldn't have as much creative control as I would if I was printing from homw
2. aesthetics - having so many pieces of my work spread out along such a large space might be rather underwhelming and not very interesting visually because....
3. concept - ...I feel like the plan for my project I came up with Alexis in relation to the space was moving a bit too far away from my concept. by going back to my original idea for my product, I will be moving back to the original artistic interpretation of what memory and identity means to me.
So. We decided to create a cherrywood scaffolding that we will hang silver wires from. My prints and the projection for my film will all be suspended and linked together using the wires as both functional suspension and visual connections. In front of this structure will be a small cherrywood pedastal, inside of which we'll put the projector and we'll put my book on top of it so that people can read my poetry and look at my visual art at the same time. This way, the piece is a contained, integrated installation rather than a fragmented presentation of my work.
I'm really excited to start building this over break and to make my 20 prints! The writing component of my project is finished, and my film just needs to be edited together, so printing and building will take up most of my vacation. This isn't my last blog, I'll be updating it throughout the break with pictures of my process and notes on my progress.
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