Maps & Networking - Finalising My Idea

On Thursday we had a visit from an artist called Vicky Smith. Vicky has had her work displayed in the Tate Modern in London so it really was a very interesting insight into what goes through a professional artists head when making a piece of art. Vicky showed us lots of different pieces of work that she felt powerfully about and explained how they all inspired her into making her own work.

She then showed us the piece of work that she had made after being inspired by all the other films and instillations. The idea of Vicky's piece, 'bicycle tire track', was to have a strip of film laid on the floor in a straight line across a room, she would then dip the tyre's of a bicycle in ink and ride over the film various times. After riding over the film about three or four times she would then put the film into a projector and watch what the ink patterns had made immediately after finishing cycling.

https://vimeo.com/91736834 

After seeing this piece of work from Vicky, it actually inspired me to alter my own idea slightly to a similar fashion of Vicky's work. What I liked most about Bicycle Tire Track was that you didn't know what the outcome was going to be whilst making it. I find the idea of creating something that you can't see brings a lot of personality to your work and because of this I have now thought of what I think is a better version of my project. Instead of going with my idea of painting people I now like the idea of a multiscreen project in which I am going to give 3 people (one for each monitor) a piece of A4 paper, a blindfold and headphones. The idea is to tell my subjects to choose a song that they find most emotionally powerful to them. This can be a song that fills them with enjoyment or a song that is sadder but means a lot to them. After they have chosen their song, I am going to give them a selection of paints, then I want them to put a blindfold on and paint blindly onto the their canvas only through how their song is making them feels emotionally.

I feel like this idea is much better than my previous one because this task actually gives my subjects a sense of character and personality which can be seen through what they paint onto their paper. I also think that this idea is going to be easier and less complicated to execute than my previous idea.