creating my cave...

Today i experiemented in making stalagtites out of paper. I then dipped them in saturated poster paint. I chose for them to be a pale lilac - a colour that to me means reassurance, comfort, even sanctury. Tomorrow I'll see how dipping the dried pieces into wax effects the texture and look of the piece.

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!