Sculpture Baby :P

So today was the beginning of the second rounds of electives and I'm doing Sculpture for the next two weeks.  I chose this purely out of curiosity if I'm being honest.  I'm crap when it comes to 3D but having gone to the talk and intro about the Sculpture and Combined Media awhile back, i thought it was really cool and something i could maybe do.

Today we got our "information sheet"....which we're not allowed call a brief cause that's too restricting apparently.  And we're not in a studio, we're in a "laboratory"....the next two weeks are going to be mega craic I'd say!

I found it really vague when i first read it, it didn't have much structure or direction...which of course freaked me out just a tad.  But then we started a group brainstorming session which actually turned out to be really useful and kinda fun to do.  we were split into groups of 3 and 4 and each group had to sit at a massive sheet and brainstorm a different topic, which ranged from Touch, Sight, Smell, Blood Pressure, Respiratory, Taste etc.  once you had one sheet done, you moved to the next until you had visited all the sheets.  and of course with everyone going around, it got more challenging to come up with new words and ideas.

But i found this really helpful as it pushed you to come up with kind of out there ideas.  we then had to re-visit all the sheets and pick out words and phrases that popped out at us.

What i noticed was that i picked a lot of words like to panic, to stress, to hyperventilate, to faint, to shake, to explode etc.  I think i probably did this sub-consciously as they are all the feelings and thoughts you have when you're experiencing panic attacks which i have unfortunately suffered from for years now.   I am claustrophobic so i don't work well with crowds in small spaces...which is why i cant go into TK MAXX without having a panic attack, it's happened quite a few times!

so because of this I've been looking at materials like balloons, tyre tubing, elastics, rubber-bands etc. basically anything that can be stretched and have tension.  I think these show the feeling of panic and stress that come with a panic attack so for now this is what i will focus on.

I havent a notion what i'm doing or where this is going but apparently its what they want.  Thankfully video can be used in Sculpture which i love working with so that should keep me sane.  We were also told not to make any art for the next two weeks, because art college doesnt work like that...who'd have thought?!