Mini degree - part 1

For the next 3-4 weeks were doing some kind of weird mini- degree where each week is a year of our degree and at the end we have a mini-degree show and a graduation and everything, you know just for the banter.  

Task 1- Matter.  
I actually really enjoyed this task and completed not one but only TWO bloody matter pieces. The idea of matter was to make something that either fits in an area/space, is made for an area, made in the area or does something for some sort of space, ye that sounds kind of right, i basically just shortened what the tutor had said to decorating a space in anyway and anywhere we want.  

When we first started this project my group decided to sit together and discuss ideas, see who needed help coming up with ideas and so on. This discussion ended up changing from helping each other think of individual ideas to doing a group project. Our idea was to make a teepee kind of thing in a corner of the studio area, making a really nice and safe place for people, to go and relax in. Our first steps to making this including once again raiding the buildings bins and other courses stuff. We found a broken computer chair, a ton of scrap materials from fashion and some sort of mat thingy from architecture. We put the mat on the floor so that the floor of the teepee wasn't dirty and then, dismantled the chair to take the cushions and then we sewed the material into a patch work style to use for the actual teepee structure. After this we put it all together and decorated the teepee using pillows, fairly lights and small comforting images we all brought in or made. It was actually such a cool teepee. 



Aside from the teepee I done my own separate matter project, where i decided to use another corner in the studio to make an area that people would interact with and come to when feeling stressed,linking to the idea of the teepee. I began my work by painting shapes and designs in the corner for a colorful background and then pinned string across in a webbed way. The web contained different coloured pegs and then the most interesting part of this project was going around the studio asking people to write on post-it notes things that they would want to tell themselves or other people when feeling down. This was the key element to the piece making it interactional and more about the people who participated rather then the thing itself.  

Task 2- Anti-matter. 
Your probably thinking that anti-matter must just be the opposite of matter. Well, your right. The idea of anti-matter is to create either something and then take it away/rub it out, make art that was never there at all or make something invisible. Ye, pretty messed up. 
My idea for this was to make art in places no one could see or in places right in plain sight that people would walk past and maybe not notice. I wasn't necessarily interested in the thought of the art being hidden itself but more so in peoples reactions once they did see it or realise that it was art. I started out doing some small things painting small dots in random areas that is almost impossible for people to see like inside the door hinge. I then painted the in between area of a studio wall which had the attraction drawn away from it by my matter project, This one was really interesting, how everyone would walk past and not realise it until walking past a couple of times and would suddenly turn back around, and different peoples reactions where interesting. 
The main piece i made was on top of the studio walls, above where no-one would see it until climbing up a ladder, which I placed in front of the painting and many would think the ladder itself was the art work. Peoples reactions once they realised they where meant to climb and then saw the work above was the most interesting part of the piece. Other than making it because that was hella fun. 

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