finished pieces and Christmas break !!!

Another 1st year tutor which majors in sculpture 'suggested in passing' that instead of attaching the wool to the paper (collage backdrop), that I pull the wool through the paper and back out. It did indeed have a much better effect. My piece did look alot neater too.
However, in taking down some of the wool to try out this experiment, I lay some of the strings out flat on the floor, directly in front of the piece and thought it was more interesting. My own tutor liked it too, as, in her words, the series of installations were beginning to look 'regimental'. That is definitely not the impression I want to give from the pieces, obviously because music is definitely not restrained.

I began pulling down more strings ont the other pieces, experimenting with them in a various ways and this is the way I left them looking.

 

<---I pulled down some more of the strings in this piece, but instead of lying them out in front, I positioned them in among the taught strings. I tried creating more movement with the shapes.

Going back home today for the Christmas. Looking forward to all the fesivities, but have to waork on my notebooks too, for the assessment after the break. I hope to do some more prints of the marks I have recorded throughout the project too.
Anyway, have a great Christmas guys. (=

series of string installations

Here is how he colourful printouts of the 'music marks' look, (each a colláge of a number of the same images). Using them for the series of small installations I'm working on in the hall of the art college. The black and white, linear images are reflecting or representing the plucked strings, (as these were the marks made when doing so). The green and pinkish images represent a number of elements within music. These were the marks made from listening to popular music, which therefore combine voice along with instruments.

When I position the strings (black and white woo) in each individual station, I aim is to create a sense of movement, which will hopefully add to the sense of sound that, (I imagine) the viewer will receive.

print work shop

Here are the prints I came out with after the workshop yesterday. I carved out the marks made by listening to music.

Bigger colour!!

The mellow pinky effect of the light came from the window. Another student has his project on the glass and when the sun is shining it certainly makes my piece look funky, ha! Thanks for the unconscience help!

Here is the back drop behind the wool, what I started with. More photocopies of the patterns from the plucked strings. I was trying to create a rhythm, sort of sense I guess.! ( As youv'e probably gathered, I'm not the best with words ).

coloured wool/sound

After being introduced to Gabriel Dawe by Luke from the same studio, I decided to experiment and incorporate colour into a wool-string installation, (like the ones I had been doing).
While I was doing it one of my tutors suggeted that I make it bigger, in order to show off the shape or the movement in which the strings were going.
Here is my first attempt.

My tutor also made a recommendation that I shoud use pins that aren't noticable, rather than the bling bling gold of the thumb tacks. From there I stray painted the next thumb tacks black for the bigger and better! piece.
In between working on these, I started thinking about what way my wall hangings ''of sound'' and what way they should be positioned. And I eventual got round to photocopying more the markings for the back of the wall hangings previously made from photocopies of the string plucking.

More Colour/ Backdrops

Decided to incorporate colour (in my wool pieces) into the backdrops instead of the strings. Think the rainbow colours weren’t a wonderful representation of music. I suggested to my tutor that I think a selection of just two, more subtle, but still vibrant colours will work better and she agreed.

Originally I was set on using two different, but complimenting coloured wool, but I changed my mind and decided to have a colourful backdrop to my pieces instead. And these are the images that I will use.

These images are the marks made from listening to music and have a much more fluent quality to them, to the pins of the base will be placed in a flowy-shape (like in my Bigger! string piece).

Contextual / Gabriel Dawe