I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.
- Paul Kane 

Thinking about my Space.

Gaudí had a deep admiration for the natural and all forms of nature. He even saw how nature provides an underlying skeleton for all man-made objects, especially architecture. He believed that all buldings, in which we live and dwell, are 'caves', a primal need that we have craved since ancient times. In prehistory, the earliest humans lived and grew in caves. They decorated them and made them into homes. The caves became their lives. Grand spaces that the human form needed, craved.
   I too think that one of the most important spaces to me, and to everyone, is that space that shelters and holds us - be that our homes, our rooms, or any other enclosed space that we feel at home. Perhaps we create these spaces based on that ancient archetype of rocky walls and dripstone formations. For this project , 'To Sense my Space', i feel compelled to explore my space in relation to what's around me, the cavernous forms that surround me every day, and how i can sense this longing for enclosure.

magical caves...

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This was an experiment of sorts. My first 3D piece (well, a messy, playschool-esque piece at that). I wasnt entired happy with its finished piece (blobby being the best ajective to describe!) Oh well, at least we can say its up from here!

my wall (including inspirational quotes, pictures of artworks and my own sketches)     



 

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing woulf be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t . And contrary-wise. what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would, you see?” - Alice.

As part of my contextual research, i took out a very informative book from the library, 'Alice in Wonderland : Through the Visual Arts'. The book was bases on an exhibition in the Tate gallery in Liverpool, the subject being the numerous works of art inspired by Lewis Carrolls classic. Various images from numerous artists (most notably for me, Dalí and the Pre Raphaelites) and essays on the strange philosophy of the story. One essay was centred around the use and exploration of space and time in the book. (As Alice falls down the rabbit hole, she tumbles through a deep abyss of space, yet gravity does not seem to exist as it does in our world. She plucks a jar of orange marmalade from a shelf halfway down the rabbit hole and, while falling, seems to contemplate finding the jar and places it back on another shelf.) Essentially, the discussion on the character falling through the rabbit hole challenged my own sense of space and fitted neatly into my topic of exploration.

China : 'Through the Lens'

 

 

Today I went with some of my friends from our studio to an exhibition in the Hunt Museum. The beautiful exhibition was of photographs taken by english explorer, John Thomson, between 1868-1872. His portraits are almost journalistic as the portary accurately the society and traditions of this era in China. The exhibition was beautifully put together, almost to make it feel as if I was taking part in the journey.