Mocking

Today we decided to start with an attempt of a mock up for what we wanted to put in the windows. After looking at an artist Barry McGee we thought his work would be great inspiration for us. He is an artist who uses a lot of frames to present his work. He puts it all together in a random composition yet it is also a planned one. I really like the way he displays his work and we were all keen to use this within our own installation. Below is an image of a piece of his work.

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We started the day by sorting through some of the images we have from the event. We decided a lot of the images could be cropped to different sizes because then this way the areas of the image that aren’t important can be scrapped. This also gives us a variety of sizes to work with. We then drew out a rough plan of what we wanted to achieve in the windows, but decided to focus on window first. We want to add depth to our images by hanging them at different levels but in a composition that is similar to those of Barry McGee. We also decided we wanted to draw onto the actual window, creating frame outlines, so from the outside it looks as though the hanging images have frames. Therefore in our mock up we decided to use paper and acetate to display an idea of what kind of thing we wanted to produce.

The mock up was really fiddly and hard to do. The cotton was so fine and the space we were using wasn’t brilliant. But we got our idea across. We also had a tutorial and deciced to meet tomorrow with Paul from Fred Aldous and see if we can figure out exactly what our plan is to install next week.