My Installation work.

ALLAN KAPROW

He was born in August 23, 1927, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was a student of art-history and philosophy between 1946-52. He died aged 78 in April 5, 2006.

Allan Kaprow inspired me to work with words to show and express my emotions and experiences.

He works with dirty, rough materials such as corrugated cardboard. The artist clearly shows his dark emotions by using black and white shades. He never uses bright colors in his artwork!

Lighting is used to make words glow. It creates low-key lighting, which adds to the emotions the room gives off.

 

 

GOZDE EWER

Gozde Eker is a freelance prop stylist from Istanbul, Turkey, and    currently is based in Brooklyn, New York.

She uses a varied assortment of discarded domestic items, for instance books, plants, toys and tiles. The objects became a creative medium in the materialization of elaborate scenes, crafted entirely from unwanted materials they found abandoned.

She brings interior routines outdoors, to the urban cityscape.

People are used to complete the design. They make the space seem functional.

Bettman and Eker claim they’re not littering but rather “curating furniture that has been disposed of and putting it all in one area for the community to see.”

MY INSTALLATION.

My installation is based on personal experiences of working at McDonald's. Some of the set is influenced by the scene with the Cheshire cat in “Alice in Wonderland”.

The eyes with the grinning faces, represent the managers which constantly watch over me. They insist that I always smile to the customers. But do the customers realize the great service and effort, I put into serving them?

I used abandoned gardening items which I collected from Nuneaton dump to make it more clearer that its about my personal experiences with work. I got my inspiration for this idea from the artists I researched called Gozde Eker.

The work is set outside because it represent me being way from socialisation. I'm trapped in this work related area and I cannot get out. I feel that I'm trapped because I seem to never have time for my self, I'm always working. The day I designed this installation was the day, I was quite annoyed with work because I was told that I wouldn’t be having many days off in the Christmas holiday.

This question “Customer do you Realize?” relates to me putting lots of effort into customer service and then wondering if the customer noticed.

The question “can anyone hear me?” Relates to me being isolated in this world of work. Seeing all my old friends having fun and socializing makes me feel trapped because I seem to never see them

“you must be happy! smile!” is what the managers basically demand off me.

“Am I really happy?” represent the fact that I feel and appear depressed but then told to smile. They seem not to care why I feel depressed. They only respect and care for the customers, not their employees.

The yellow jacket represents hard work. Its usually dirty so it looks like it been worked in a lot. People wearing it are assumed to have worked hard.

EVALUATION.

I could have put McDonald's packaging together to make boards, this would have made it more relevant to me being annoyed with McDonald's because so far it appears that I'm annoyed with hard, laborious work for instance gardening and construction.

The setting could have been different as its, again not relevant to McDonald's. The installation could have been placed next to a bush or tree, which is near to McDonald's. The installation alternatively could have been placed in the middle of a dark woods as it would have emphasized the lack of socialisation.

The yellow jacket could be replaced with my McDonald's uniform, for instance the apron, trousers and polo shirt. McDonald's packaging with a scrunched up and destroyed appearance could have been placed along the floor to emphasize that link with abandonment.

Lighting next time should be used to make the appearance of installation, more sinister and negative.

The artist Allan Kaprow used lots of board with words on them. I believe, I should have used more boards to create the same effect as he did.

 

 

Birmingham Trip. Reason for photos.

This artwork inspired me to ask questions in my artwork, because in this piece it made me more involved and interested by the process of asking questions like "If you make art what happens when you die?". The questions and sentences make it clear what the artist is experiencing and trying to express through their work. The question asked makes it clear that the artists is trying to express negative, dark emotions probably because their experiencing something which has caused them pain.

I took this picture for future use, as it might give me inspiration for my installation.






This piece of the artwork made me more interested, in using string to hang items as it gave the audience more than one point of view, on the work as the item could be observed in a 360 motion.
Hanging items, makes the artwork more surreal, therefore making it more interesting. The objects (paintbrushes) presented are not random, but related to the words used, this therefore makes the image the artist is trying to portray more clearer.

This picture was taken as it might be used for inspiration when arranging objects for future work.







This installation was present at the Icon. Its called "THE NAM. I took this photo because the way color is used to make mixed emotions is very inspirational. Its made me consider the connotations of color more when using it in my future work.

This installation changed due to the change in light which made me almost agitated. This has inspirited me to use lighting in my future work to make my work give off different emotions.

This artwork was most related to my abandoned theme. I believe the artist was trying to convey that abandoned objects have beauty behind them. The abandoned item being a empty canister and the beauty being a flower growing in the soil the abandoned object is buried in. the artwork alternatively suggests that nature is taking over and destroying man made objects. I believe he is trying to portray this war between nature and man. The artist Mat Collishaw was the most inspiring artist on the trip, I believe personally. He likes to show the negative aspects of life around use, for instance one of installation was based on a series of 12 crime scenes.





This photo was of the lift buttons at the Walsall Museum. I was intrested in the texture which was given off by the relfection of the light on the scratched metal. I believed this photo was appealing to the eye, due to the difference in tone between the top and bottom of the photo.






This texture was both smooth and rough. I believe it captured the man made world we live in. The dull, grey color of the texture made the atmosphere feel different. It was if all the joy was sucked out of the room, because it was colorless. Color plays a big part in creating emotions.