28/11/2009

Saturday today. I went in for 8 o clock , to help get the drawing competition entries ready, for Donald Tetskey to make his selection for the show. There were some absolutely brilliant works on show, and one of my own pieces was selected fot the exhibition; I am very pleased. We finished up at around 4 o' clock, it was a good experience, to see what kind of procedeures were involved, and to see what kinds of things Donald selected.

27/11/2009

Took down my diachronic installation, it was interfered with too many times. It was a good experiment though. I have dismantled the mirror installation as well, they need the space for third year electives, and it was meant to be a workshop area anyway. I am going to have to move to the sculpture area, but I have my doubts as to wether I can be given a big enough space.

26/11/2009

I am on the organizing comittee of the drawing awards competition this year; today was the deadline for submission to this years competition. So, the day was spent, taking in the submissions. There were many great works, and it is truly a privelage to be a part of this college, and to be associated with such  highly talented individuals.

25/11/2009

Spent the morning trying to get the angle of 'drawing machine'. It is proving to be a lot harder than what I initially thought it would be, however, I will persevere with it, untill I get it right. In the afternoon, at the invitation of Peter Morgan, I presented a power point, of some of my work to second year students . It was the first time outside of my own class environment, that I had to talk about my work. It went fairly well, Peter was a great help. Being ever the opportunist, I seized the chance to get some research for my own project. I brought down a mirror which I had on an easel, and videotaped the audience of the presentation, in the reflection of the mirror. Could we call this phenomena, a ironic paradox !!!???

23/11/2009

With the drawing awards looming, I spent the day preparing one piece for entry. I have connected a artist pen to a strip of copper wire, and nailed it to the wall. I bought a fan which I have secured to the wall beneath the pen. I propose to let the fan blow the copper strip, with the pen on,to make marks, or a drawing  on paper.I had not considered that the 'swing' of the copper, would in fact be an arc type movement, so I am experimenting with card and paper, to see if I can duplicate the arc of the swing, in order for the piece to be effective.

 

20/11/2009

Went down town to get my bulb, which was meant to be 'coming in within the next week' (3 weeks ago), alas, two shops that said this, were obviously lying. Re packaged the mirror to send it back to the retailers. I did a bit more to the thesis in the afternoon.

19/11/2009

A few different people have made comments on the mirror installation; one person has said it was intimidating, another said it made them feel uneasy; it was like someone was watching them. A couple of others have said it made them feel confused, disoriented, and so forth. So, what I have to do is contextualize the work to give it some coherence; what is my point? what is the logic behind my thinking? in terms of this work, what is my "raison d'être"? These are indeed valid questions. Whilst there are many ideas whizzing around in my mind, I believe the answers are just brewing in my subconscious somewhere ! The point is, I need to rationalize all these thoughts and ideas, to make some kind of sense. I had a tutorial with Dr. Kieran Cashell today, and he has given me some valuable advice and insight. It was very helpful to get this kind advice, from the perspective of an CCS lecturer.