TITLE: ‘The Issue & The Coping’

For this project, I wanted to use a topic which I felt relevant to use in these specific, difficult times. I wanted to use my current experiences which I have been subjected to due to my mental health and use that to my advantage in hopes that this project could improve my situation.

I wanted to explore ways I could exhibit my experiences and feelings in an impactive artform, experimenting with a variety of materials and techniques that have links into my theme for the project.

Planning at the start of the project, I decided that using mind maps was ideal because my mental state was in no place to be thourgh and critical. So using mind mapping methods helped me considerably during the process of this projects duration.

I instantly like the idea of producing a piece of work which at first glance was appealing and that you could be attracted to at glance. I believe I have achieved this. But also, I wanted to add a material to which is seemingly unpleasant to some once at a closer distance. I believe I also achieved this.

My aim was to try express my view of how I see my own mental health and its course. The attractive areas would be the scale and the order of the installation, however in my views that’s to try replicate that overwhelming sense of something bigger than I am which is hard to keep contained and organised.

I wanted to use this project to my advantage and find artist who work with aspects of what I’m trying to achieve and use material wise. I used artist such as Damien Hirst, Andy Goldsworthy and Rosa de Jong. These artist I felt were most influencing in my development for this project.

Overall, I think this project was perhaps one of my most challenging yet rewarding projects I have ever done. I enjoyed the journey of the project and managed to use it to my advantage at bettering my well-being.

I would say that in terms of improvement and further development, I would love to see this artwork in a much larger scale, to possibly which the tubes were the scale of a person or just even having more tubes to add to the spiral.

100 tubes suspended spiral.

Using the grid base structure, I will start to suspend my tubes by using the geometric spiral method as talked about in my previous blog post.

As I started to get higher, the spiral gradually started to form that geometric shape that I had been using to suspend the tubes with on the base structure.

Creating a spiral installation.

Because the previous design was still too straight and organised for our liking, the small group talk with my peers and they suggested that perhaps seeing the tubes in an arrangement of a spiral would be quite statementive with the links to the natural elements of the leaves but also still maintain that structure figure withholding a fluidity to the work.

I could also say that creating a spiral would work well with the theme of using mental health. In some cases, I would maybe describe that mental health is like a spiraling cycle. So I think taking this forward would lead to me deciding on a finalised idea.

Because the base structure isn’t rounded, it may be difficult for me to try round a formation of the tubes, so what I’d suggest I’d do is install the tubes in a geometric spiral on the grid but adjust the tubes at all different lengths.

As with the installation of the suspended tubes, I had a discussion about whether to make an additional piece where a draw graph of the continents of the tubes will sit besides the structure on the wall.

This isn’t a finalised idea as of yet because I’m unsure I’ll have time to produce this graph. However for future references, this could always be a further development piece that could be display separately or as a set with the installation piece.

At this stage, I had to begin to think about starting to install my tubes. So to start I used this deign because I could easily correct the pattern if anything went wrong.

However, talking with my peers and tutors, they and myself felt that the structure of the layout was too straight still to have any fluidity at all.

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This post is to show my stratagy of how I could display and install my tubes that could be possibly used in the final show.

Playing with different types of compositions was quite fun and enjoyable, especially seeing the potential options for my final presentation display.

There was also the possibility about suspending and making my tubes into a hanging piece of work which I think would look really impactive at first glance, which was an aim to do as mentioned in my project proposal. So I want to try suspending my tubes first before deciding on a final outcome layout.

Andy Goldsworthy

100 TUBES filled

When I had successfully filled all my 100 tubes with the plant pieces, there seemed to be no order in arrangement. Therefore, I decided to use Andy Goldsworthys technique and arrange my tube in a coloured order layout and I think that the tubes then have more of a fluidity to them.

Using Goldsworthys work was really effective in influencing my arrangement of what order the tubes could go in.