I still do not have a precise space so I have decided that I need to practice on the wheel if I am to make anything at all.

I went to ceramics and spoke with Andy. He said I had an extreme challenge on my hands as poetry is a 5 year degree, I have 6 weeks. He showed me how to throw a basic bowl. He made it look truly easy that you been doing it for years.

Thought process.

This is our final project of the year. We are often encouraged to continue projects after handing and to pursue them as interest and that's exactly why I'm when central my project on annual interest.

This summer I will be flying to New York City to work in American summer camp in Fishkill in upstate New York. Sharp preservation holds host to the fresh air fund summer camp program, I'm going to be teaching poetry to 15 to 16-year-old underprivileged boys at camp. The campus called camp Tommy and is designed to give kids a different perspective of life other than the inner-city.

In the interview my camp director he asked me if I had tried using the pottery will before and if edges to kill for which I replied to yes as I tried this. However I did not realise that I'd have to teach poetry as master the subject, anyway I have now taken on the challenge and learning in the 6 weeks how to teach pottery to a classroom of 15 to 16-year-old boys.

This is how I have come up with my project, our project is a site-specific collaborative brief. I initially thought about collaborating with Potter in the pottery studio but these hard to find local in Leds without having a car. When onto looking at space is about as a site collaborated, Cheryl suggested finding a space and working from this space. She also suggested using things in space such as taking a journey like a walk to college and using dirt from the space to throw with. However I did not particularly like this idea. I spoke with someone from our course and a suggested working in kitchens and cafes as sale full of crockery and parts. I thought that this would be an interesting site to collaborate with however I'm still unsure on who to collaborate with.

At this point I spoke to a 3rd year he told me that last project they had worked with someone by getting them to set them a unofficial brief I like this idea. And now looking to several cafes within the to find a space, Cheryl has suggested taking pictures and recordings from the cafes as part of my research.

Susan Hiller, When i was researching Susan Hiller i came across this image.
I couldn't find a name or even if Susan Hiller was the actual artist.
It has everything i like about Andreas Gursky, the order and the colours. I also am keen on fabrics and how they hang.

Andreas Gursky, Is a Landscape photography who looks in depth at colour space and shape. A lot of his works art either se-metrical or aesthetically pleasing in a mathematic sense as they appear to be placed together and over edited when really its his good eye for a composition that gives his photography an completely original view on everything. Most of his works looks at man made architecture and man made patterns within an environment, its more a documentation of the everyday and others work to create the everyday environments we pass through.

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This image in particular is my favourite due to my love for foreign supermarkets. something about the colours of foreign branding, the lighter space and the cool well air conditioned environment makes me happy. 

Most of my research for this project so fair has been interior environments. However for my last project I did some photos in exterior urban environment which i really liked. I do have a fascination with urban environments like car parks as well as abandoned buildings.

Santa Maria della Salute in Palazzo Livingroom. Venice, Italy, 2006








Manhattan View Looking South in Large Room, 1996 














Camera Obscura: View of Central Park Looking North-Spring, 2010

St. Louis East, in Building Under Construction, 1999 View, Looking


Abelardo morell has taken rooms and diffrent spaces opposite views with significants and literally bought the outside in using a camera obscura. using a view to project an image with controlled lighting techniques using colour and black and white filmed he has bought empty spaces to life. changing the purpos of empty rooms to art. I like the collaboration of picking interesting or plain interiors with photographic projections. Some are using a device and some have been made from blacking out a room and the only light is a small hole that porjects an upside image on the back wall.

Home- Miler Lagos, MagnanMetz Gallery

This installation comprises of several antique boks combined together to make a self standing Iglu of stacked books.

This piece has two different views of interior spaces. The inside is a colourful Iglu with a con-caved space. The outer room gives you a beige view and the opposite of a dome. The incompleteness of the piece makes it more of a cave than a full Iglu.

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The House of Books Has No Windows, Janet Cardiff. 2008


In a simular concept of interior spaces Janet Cardiff has created a house of antique books. However the main focus of this piece is the exterior as the colour of the spines is more dull and facing outwards. The interior is more dark reflecting the dark space the house is put into. 

                                                                     

Books are an interesting material to use as they are easily  obtainable and are solid as a structure.

I find the concepts linked to it very interesting. It reminds me of being in a library surrounded by shelves and shelves of books, however the interior is very dull and not a good reading space. I feel that although these are antique books and of english literature it gives me the idea of a childhood den or something from a story book like Hansel and Gretal's cottage.

Lynda Gammon's "Interval 3" (2007, Installation) at Silent as Glue

Lynda Gammon- She has a way of creating spaces, small architectural structures, with a unique element of off the cuff interior design. These installations are neither technical or design led but look more like pieces of fine art. 

She has use a collage of her photography in a 3D manner. 

Im interested in her choice of display and the way she has created small worlds using her photographic talents and 3D design. 

Dieter Roth - P.O.TH.A.A.VFB (Portrait of the Artist as a Bird Feed Bust)


1969
Bust of chocolate and bird food on wooden board 


This is a pice created by Dieter Roth this sculpture is a self portrait. 
It was put on a bird table and left to natural elements. 
This piece is a natural creation of self distruction. Created using organic materials and left be deconstructed. 
Roth used self exploration through out his life as an artist. He constantly used different disiplines to create portraits of himself, even collaborating with other artists.
Further more this isnt just a self portrait its a self predicted self portrait of what he'd look like as an old man created at the age of 38. 


I do not find this piece particularly fascinating  inits self as it is but what it is to become. When in berlin recently we went to the Hamburger Bahnhof I was fascinated by the sculpture "Gartenskulptur" by Dieter Roth and his son Bjorn Roth.
The piece comprises of many different items and is said to originate from P.O.TH.A.A.VFB. The piece was added too and added too to give this SELF portrait an extension of self. It has grown every time it has been dismantled and reassembled and now reaches over 40 feet. As an extension of self it contains drawings, paintings, wood, rabbit hutches, jars collecting wood resin and at one point contained a live rabbit. It goes further into collaboration when dieter Roths son added more and more too it as well as other artists. I found the piece fascinating due to the sheer size of it and how it made me think of a parent ship created by children as a den. It is extremely playful and experimental and looks in parts as if its functional. Now containing flowers, tv screens with footage of them creating the piece and even an office it has a liveable element to it and suggests life with in it. 


I find it amazing how this piece fills such a large space with great presents and the interaction of reinstalling it in different galleries and out side places changes it each time creates something new to change a space.