What can I say, it has just been a catching up week really for me, starting off the week with the dreaded candle again aarrgghhh it keeps coming back to haunt us. The finishing touches have been added to the candle by Sue & myself and the brass plate attached and packed off to Wootton thanks to cazzy.
We have also been installing some art pieces at Utterby church this week ready for the tree festival this week. I have placed six prints in the church, a sound piece and some lighting but very delicate and a ceramic pot. The tree festival is running all week and the art work is just in between the trees which are pride of place.
some lovely paper sculpture by a local artist.
My prints upon the altar, these are to emulate the ice, cracked and flawed. the light blues used were to work in co-ordination with my ice cavern room and the blue floodlights that will be flooding the alter window when installed.
Just a few of the 25+ trees at the festival each one designed and decorated but local people and businesses.
Sue's pulpit pieces, sculptures with books, really clever. as usual.
The installation idea I had did not go as planned as the lighting was not bright enough and I really needed some projection or blue spotlights, although the effects of the crumpled up foil did refract the light source and made it look like shattered ice but I has not anticipated on the luminosity of the Christmas tree lights being so bright. The sound piece of the different noises associated with the ice I was pleased with although again very time consuming adding layer upon layer of sound and mixing them. Some of the sounds are icy winds, shattering ice, frozen lake creaking, a pebble thrown on the frozen lake and thawing ice with dripping water effect. all these sounds have been manipulated and then mixed on one piece. The idea was to turn the vestry into an ice cavern and make it feel cold and frozen.. hopefully if no one turns the heating on it may have that effect anyway.
Friday topped off nicely with a visit from Charlotte Bowen, events manger and organiser at www.theculturehouse.co.uk whom gave us a brilliant insightful chat about up and coming local events involving arts,crafts, theatre and music.. This was a very interesting insight on how organisational skills are needed to get events up and running and how our degrees can take us into many different fields of work after graduation.
Two weeks to go and this coming week I shall be making a fireplace for my assessment crits. Hopefully get some projection (if there are enough spare) and set the installation as I want it with audience participation. lets see what happens. And getting cracking finalised some sound and film ideas to get on dvds and catch up with sketch books aaaarrrgggghhhhhhh!
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