experiments for final piece

I have changed my final piece idea. Instead of creating a spiral that comes down from the ceiling I will create it coming out toward the viewer so it give the effect of looking through a time vortex. I have experimented with materials to come up with ways to create my final idea. Firstly I made a model of the window out of foam board then I used coloured foam to make the layers of the whole , this is in response to Jen Starks work, who use paper to create her layers. I thought this worked well as my idea was coming to life and my peers could have a feeling of what the end result would look like. I got positive feed back from my teachers who said my idea was very interesting and they liked the layering of the foam that created a tunnel going into the fake wall like a black hole. However, even if the material worked well it had disadvantages: I would not be able to get a big enough size of coloured foam. The foam isn't stable if it isn't stuck to something.

 This is my final plan for my window instillation, I have decided that the spiral will come out toward the viewer instead of spiraling down. I believe this will be more visually pleasing and also the words will be easier to read.

This is my initial plan with the spiral coming down from a whole in the ground. However I decided to alter this to the plan above as this plan had to many components and would have been too time consuming to construct.

This is another plan that I made. I liked the idea of taking something in my box and recreating it on a larger scale; my red bracelet that I got from a friend in Italy. However, I didn't like the element of painting the back ground using phosphorescent paint, and making it look like 'dripping art' similar to Jen Stark as I thought this may be to flat and simple to look at without any strong links to my other artists.

This was a tester for my final piece. I wanted to make it clear what words I was going to use in my spiral to represent my memories. I chose to write some of the words in Italian as my memories where in Italy.  I think a spiral works well as all the words are visible and it is visually pleasing, I also tried to construct a linier spiral that was made up of zig-zags, however this did not work well as I thought it looked too messy and I liked the contrast between smooth rounded and linier shaps.

Here I give an example of what I wanted my final piece t look like. I drew out a plan to show how I want to construct my fake whole in the back wall where my spiral is going to come out from. I will do this by measuring a piece of wood that is the same length as the black wall and then cut out a whole in the middle, I will then cover the wall with black material so that it looks like the back wall. This plan also shows the pattern for what I initially wanted to put on the centre spiral, but then I changed my idea and decided to put in words.