i've really be struggling to output my ideas for the time & memory project. i have the concept but actually making things to really justify the thought is extremely difficult and i cannot get into it, especially given the short space of time we're expected to have done something.
but i have had a new idea that may just work. this isn't to say i want to scrap my original idea but it's something i feel like i need to come back to in the future, when i have much longer to get it right. it's just something feels heavily flawed.
new idea.
using objects with a plastic and industrial connotation to explore the idea that, while we think "memories" are truth, they are in fact figments of an event and details can be made up or taken away by the individual. memories are a simple product of a process, like for instance a plastic bottle. plastic bottles don't seem much like a memory from a complicated, and emotional human being but for me they represent something very simple about us. something manufactured in a natural landscape.
i want to spray paint large bottles and other found plastic objects in the colours that evoke the memory (ie in my case, orange) and place these inside a field, isolated, in the same way i did my food sculpture. it comes with a slightly different concept, but will look similar and will take me less time to make. plastic cleaning bottles also tend to have the sturdy structure and geometric shape that i am looking for.
this is probably completely stupid to start adjusting my idea right now, but my initial one just isn't working as i'd hoped.
phase 2!
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