During the session with Jim I showed the experiments with the ripped models, the close up and the whole models. We discussed about how the models had a lot of energy to it, not necessarily anger although I used my frustration to make them, but in the sense of how the material has kept that information. This makes me think back to Juliana Cerqueira Leite's work and how she talked about clay having a mnemonic quality. The next step was then to finalise the work into something that I could present, either as a proposal for an exhibition that was realistic or in another means that wouldn't need an exhibitions space. About the work we talked about the opposite ends and how the images look like it is a mix of both, looking organic and non-organic, frozen yet moving, beautiful and grotestic. This adds one to how I am experimenting with the physical and the digital which is what I have been going back and fourth with throughout the whole project. Being in the place and being comfortable in the unknown and letting that guide the project. It is showing the truth about the material which is something that I have been very interested since and have presented within the presentation. To then finalise the project, I need to think about what am I doing, why and I doing it, what am I trying to communicate and how do I want the audience to view the work? How does the viewing of the work then change or effect the final outcome? Jim's recommended me to look at Cathy de Monchaux, a sculptor who's work also lies in-between this idea of beauty and grotesque (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Work in progress, by Cathy de Monchaux. Photograph: Dave Morgan, (de Monchaux, 2009)
As we were talking about the lots of different models I had made, an ideal would be to stitch them together, similarly to how the artists replicates her work as like a long series pieced together. This led me to thinking it would be interesting to see what the different in work would be if I were to physically stitch and digitally stitch the models, the digitally stitch would be a frozen moment in the process. Thinking about a frozen process, I thought what if I showed how I made these models, showed how much energy I put into them in the form of a documentation or a video?
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Figure 1: de Monchaux, C. (2009) Work in progress, by Cathy de Monchaux. Photograph: Dave Morgan, [online] Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/09/whitechapel-takeover-art-cathy-de-monchaux (Accessed 13 January 2021).
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