This isn’t my final piece, Though this piece was closely considered to becoming my final outcome!
I wanted to post the development of this experiment too, I’m actually happy with the outcome though I didn’t have enough time to make more of the mini cushions, that’s why the piece is quite short. However I think that this piece would look interesting if I had more time and space to develop it further, I think I would definatly have liked to see more of the cushions take up more space, but also to prehaps see them enlarged, taking up the space of either larger walls or even the floor.
These pieces are made from the scrap materials I was left from working with the bigger cuts of fabric, and I didn’t want to waste anything so I used that to my advantage to experiment some more. This piece isn’t really functional, but what I liked about this idea was to try and create the work to replicate that surrounding fear area around the portraits into reverse positions almost. So the audience would be in the place of the portraits, whereas the artwork itself is supposed to be the surrounding area. Though because I didn’t have the space of the physical audience, that idea is on hold for the time being.
When sewing these cushions together, there was a lot of loose threads, but I decided to keep them visible and not cut the away because I liked the way they looked in the draping way, and they would sometimes move about which kind of brought the piece alive in a way with the movements.
Courtney Blair Art 