›This body of work which culminated in a Installation, which made use of space of whole room, became and ambitious project, as I wanted to say so much as to the re-value of discarded objects. I had originally wanted to incorporate Interactive Elements so that the audience/viewer would be able to be part of the Art Work, as in Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures. The interaction would have taken the form of playing with My Funfair, which originated from Nostalgia of Childhood Memories of Barry Island Beach and Pleasure Park, which holds fond memories of annual Summer Day Trips.
What it ended up being was an Immersive Experience into a Studio Space of me as an artist. Intermingled with the two Featured Architectural Pieces created using Arte Povera and Contingent Art Methods was the stages of Liminality of the salvaged materials in bags and boxes, in varying stage of Transformation.
During this Liminal Process, I was drawn to how a Caterpillar metamorphoses into a Butterfly. One of my ideas was to create a sort of reversal of a Ship in a Bottle and a Message in a Bottle. An empty, discarded, plastic drinks bottle would be covered in brown paper to represent the Cocoon and a Butterfly made, using the paper folding method- Origami, would be placed in the bottle and a string would be attached, like a Kite, to pull out the Butterfly to represent the stage of re-incorporation into the world after Transformation, much like in a Rite of Passage, when a boy becomes a man.
The selection process for choosing the items which would feature prominently in the Degree Final Art Show a harrowing experience, as it meant I was, in my mind discarding objects which I had painstakingly and loving collected over a large period of time, in my mind rescuing them, only to discard them myself, it was an emotional experience for me. Although necessary I felt a sense of loss as I empathise with the materials as I have carried a sense of abandonment and being disregard with me for a very young age. It felt like I was saying that they were not good enough. I find that I relate a lot to inanimate objects-Paredolia forms a large part of my Creative Observations. I find an affinity and feel a Sense of Belonging with taps that look like friend faces etc.
Just updating this post with images from finished piece. It has come out like a random collage as I have forgotten how to order them, and it was easier to choose many at once. So now it is more like a puzzle in a magazine, that you work out which order they should be…your time begins now…tick…tock…lol… Bye for now, Be safe x
The wide convolutions remind me of the form of female nude in paintings such as by Matisse. 
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