Ideas for installation 2.

Sounds of ballerina music playing from trinket box - childlike; tinkling sound, innocent; nursery rhymes comfort

changing music to something different; insight to personality (punk, political, heavy metal angry; dance; cheesy pop etc) creating a new form.

Taking typical ballerina dress - Dancing seen as high art, Dega - deconstructing it; do I have to dress up as a pretty innocent ballerina to get noticed? who will notice me? informed people?
Using my own image or what i would realistically aspire to look like.

Sounds could be displayed though installation; thought about visiting artist Heather and Ivan Morison the use of a record player - vinyls; vintage like jewellry box; way can link to movement how record and needle interact; moves around like a dance of its own.

Andy Warhol's Time Capsules

Andy Warhol - Time Capsules

"What you should do is get a box for a month,and drop everything in it
and at the end of the month lock it up.
Then date it and send it over to New Jersey.
You should try and keep track of it,
but if you can't and you lose it, thats fine.
Because its one less thing to worry about,
another load off your mind..
I started off myself with trunks and the odd peices of furniture,
but then I went shopping around for something better
and now I just drop everything into the same-size brown cardboard boxes."
(Andy Warhol: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again)

'Trash or Treasure?' a Published Commentry on Warhol exhibition 2005 @ NGV Melbourne

'....The 15 time capsules that have come to Melbourne occupy all three galleries of the NGV's temporary exhibition space ..
The contents are displayed in custom-built cabinets made from brown corrugated cardboard that echoes the material of the capsules themselves.The contents include both trash and treasure. There are numerous Warhol artworks, including a painting from the 1950s, original Polaroids and photobooth strips. There is also the source material for a lot of artistic projects, both finished (the original frame cut from a comic strip that was used as the source for Warhol's 1961 Dick Tracy painting) and unfinished (a script treatment for a Broadway show based on the music of Lou Reed). Publicity material for his art shows and films. Some cover a period as short as a week; others span 10-20 years. Most of those on display in Melbourne represent Warhol's life and times in the late 1970s. Celebrity is a constant theme, both in the items he collected (Jean Harlow's dress, Clarke Gable's shoes) and in his friendships (thank-you notes from Divine and Diana Vreeland). Correspondence covers the intensely personal (letters from his assistant Gerard Malanga after a falling-out) and the crazily impersonal ,pizza dough, dirty knickers - mingle with items that cast a more substantial shadow over his life, such as hate mail from Valerie Solanos, the hanger-on who shot and nearly killed him in 1968. One Solanos letter is addressed to "Andy Warhol, Asshole, New York". Such was his fame, it managed to get to him through the postal service.
The contents of the time capsules afford us new insights into Warhol's biography and his personality. More than confirming the dates of certain events or the sources of various projects, they present a vivid, chaotic collage of his era. "

how odd to think the ephemera of your whole life could end up behind glass cases!

Joseph Cornell...

Untitled (Cockatoo and Corks), c. 1948, Construction, 14 3/8 x 13 1/2 x 5 5/8 in, Private collection

Joseph Cornell

'Grid'

I think the artist’s metaphor with these “box” constructions is a meditation about life itself, which begins in the womb and ends in a coffin — both of which have been described in crude yet common slang as “boxes.”

Perhaps he was just obsessed with compartmentalization and this artwork was the manifestation of his particular OCD.

Boxes can be seen as time capsules akin to Andy Warhol's time capsules who, though he didn’t create artwork like this, was an obsessive “boxer.”

Initial ideas for Installation peice.

Jewellry box - Life size maybe?

engulfing viewer with this walk in jewellry box usually kept so minature and secretive locked away..

Interactive like smaller peice used in gallery practice seminar but on a much larger scale..

Using film - going back to lists continual silming on a loop.

Sound - Traditional jewellry box; Like one my Mother had; ballerina spinning with ringing sounding tune.. adapting it to a more modern song maybe? sort of soundtrack of life???

Sarah Baker; Working Girl 2004 Photo cut

Place the film loop of the list writing on a screen inside the jewellry box or in a pull out draw? where a mirror would be?


Making another film depicting me as the ballerina? in typical ballerina dress and pose or my pose and dress? Music playing; incorporate it into the box peice or another peice.

Lucas Samaras...

Lucas Samaras

Fig 1. Lucas Samaras, Untitled March 2, 1965; Faux-jewel encrusted, velvet – lined, hinged leather box housing antique English meat carving set with collaged photographs on handles, 2 ½ x 15 7/8 x 5 ½ in. (6.4 x 40.3 x 14cm) CLOSED
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Gift of Mrs. Andrew P. Fuller, 1976

Lucas Samaras is a sculptor and experimental artist, He constructs narrative boxes with found objects; the boxes are used to convey the diverse elements of the self. In ‘’Untitled 1965’’ (Fig. 1) Samaras attempts to convey contrasting ideas of horror and charm with the glistening, bejewelled outside of the box with the more sinister aspect of the carving set laid on the velvet lined inside of the box. He incorporates objects of fetish with more warm, comforting, family images such as his Mother. This is reflected in ‘Untitled 1965’ (Fig. 1) where the box is described as conveying the;

“‘beautiful’ mother, available to the senses,…’’ while the disturbing strange inside of the box conveys her ‘’enigmatic inside which must be construed by imagination.’’

Samaras imaginatively uses …the destructive carving tools to pry open her body and enter it again to return to her womb. If creative imagination involves projective identification, as it invariably does, then Samaras identifies with the beautiful Mother – His face magically appears (surprise) in many of the rhapsodically bejewelled mother boxes – in effect penetrating her enigmatic inside with his destructive carving tools while signalling her intense aesthetic impact on the senses. He’s a jack-in-the-box trickster, gazing at us from the fatal security of the maternal unconscious.’’


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Prather, Marla; Kuspit, Donald. (2003). ‘Unrepentant Ego: The self – portraits of Lucas Samaras.’ New York, Publications and New Media department at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Development using Box.

Cut away from canvas.
Used Metallic leaf - 'Ceramonial Sheen'




Fake jewells and gems.
Plastic indicating superficial?

Constructed around a small box; main image on the inside; to be discovered?



Side View;
Objects started to be added;
Building blocks - Childish element
Sweets; luxuries.

Blocks of wood painted blue like wallpaper; heart and line patterns taken from high chair used repetitively - imagery of childhood; shapes.

Materials: Cotton wool; Mother; protection

''I used to think he was the demon child'' - Painting

I found a photograph out of an album of my 3rd or 4th Birthday party; My younger Brother who is probably just around about 12 - 18 months is sitting in a high chair.

At this age i remember our relationship being very strained; I hated him basically! Pure jealousy was the factor and I always thought He was more loved than me.


I wanted to use this really as a starting point and starting using watered down acrylic on a small canvas.







I was orginally going to paint the eyes a demonic red and use harsh brushstrokes around the image of my brother; taking a sort of immature cartoon doodle approach as a contrast to the maturely painted areas in innocent pastel shades...

But after a brief tutorial with Liz Lemon we discussed other ways of displaying the paintings; looking at the boxes as possible methods.

Boxes

- Boxes as a way of rooming personal/sentimental / found artefacts and objects
- Collectting objects that can be easily disregarded as unimportant or disposable but can still have importance about the to; transforming objects resulting in giving them status.

i.e Shopping lists; Reciepts; notes; train tickets; letters; birthday cards...

- Deciding whether the boxes are open or closed

o·pen
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adj.
1.
a. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed.
b. Affording unobstructed passage or view: open waters; the open countryside.
2.
a. Having no protecting or concealing cover: an open wound; an open sports car.
b. Completely obvious; blatant: open disregard of the law.
c. Carried on in full view: open warfare; open family strife.
d. Sports Not closely defended by an opponent: an open receiver.
3.
a. Not sealed or tied: an open package.
b. Spread out; unfolded: an open book.
4. Having interspersed gaps, spaces, or intervals: open ranks; an open weave.
5.
a. Accessible to all; unrestricted as to participants: an open competition.
b. Free from limitations, boundaries, or restrictions: open registration.


closed
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adj.
1. Having boundaries; enclosed: a closed corridor between the two buildings.
2. Blocked or barred to passage or entry: a closed port.
3. Explicitly limited; restricted: closed membership.
4. Self-contained or self-sufficient: a closed relationship.
5. Barred to the public; conducted in secrecy: a closed session of the judiciary committee.


- Different meanings have different effects on viewer


- Looking back at boxes from level one as well as the lettering on canvas; think about incorporating this method into the boxes; pins etc time consuming high level of importance is reflected yet content throws viewer.

- Possible materials for boxes; wood; metal; cardboard; fabric - combinations

- Like the way how boxes have many sides like diverse traits in personality
- Looking at different sorts of boxes; shoe boxes; old tins and snuff boxes (Male luxuries; going back to War; history) Sewing boxes (typically feminine) Jewellry boxes (precious) Treasure chests; trinket boxes; Boxing things up to move house (another year at uni) Boxing up (emotions)...


Artists:

Joseph Cornell; Lucas Samaras..

A Box..

box 1
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(bks)
n.
1.
a. A container typically constructed with four sides perpendicular to the base and often having a lid or cover.
b. The amount or quantity that such a container can hold.
2. A square or rectangle: Draw a box around your answer.
3.
a. A separated compartment in a public place of entertainment, such as a theater or stadium, for the accommodation of a small group.
b. An area of a public place, such as a courtroom or stadium, marked off and restricted for use by persons performing a specific function: a jury box.
4. A small structure serving as a shelter: a sentry box.
5. Chiefly British A small country house used as a sporting lodge: a shooting box.
6. A box stall.
7. The raised seat for the driver of a coach or carriage.
8. Baseball
a. An area on a diamond marked by lines designating where the batter may stand.
b. Any of various designated areas for other team members, such as the pitcher, catcher, and coaches.
9. Sports A penalty box.
10. Printing Featured printed matter enclosed by hairlines, a border, or white space and placed within or between text columns.
11. A hollow made in the side of a tree for the collection of sap.
12. A post office box.
13.
a. An in box.
b. An out box.
14.
a. An insulating, enclosing, or protective casing or part in a machine.
b. A signaling device enclosed in a casing: an alarm box.
15. A cable box.
16.
a. Informal A television.
b. A very large portable radio.
17. Chiefly British A gift or gratuity, especially one given at Christmas.
18. An awkward or perplexing situation; a predicament.
19. Vulgar Slang The vulva and the vagina.
tr.v. boxed, box·ing, box·es
1. To pack in a box.
2. To confine in or as if in a box.
3. To border or enclose with or as if with a box: Key sections of the report are boxed off.
4. To provide a housing or case for (a machine part, for example).
5.
a. To limit the activity or influence of by or as if by creating a restrictive structure or outlining a territory: The legislature was boxed in by its earlier decisions.
b. Sports To block (a competitor or opponent) from advancing, especially to hinder an opponent from getting a rebound in basketball by placing oneself between the opponent and the basket: was boxed out by the tallest player on the team; was boxed in on the homestretch.
6. Nautical To boxhaul.
7. To cut a hole in (a tree) for the collection of sap.
8. To blend (paint) by pouring alternately between two containers.
9. To change the shape of (a structure, such as a wall) by applying lath and plaster or boarding.Idioms:
box the compass
1. To name the 32 points of the compass in proper order.
2. To make a complete revolution or reversal.
in a box Informal
In a very difficult or restrictive situation.

Level Two

Reflecting back on Level One's work I really enjoyed studying the theme of personal identity and I wanted to continue this throughout Level Two. Although identity is such a broad theme I felt i can use devices to engage the viewers and throw them like i started to touch on using my canvas.

I like the idea that the viewer expects something from the artwork but then that idea is totally deconstucted when up close.

I only managed to touch on painting methods in level one and i really have the urge to express myself alot more through this medium.

Throughout the summer I have been looking through family photo albums and thought this would be an interesting start for my work.

I have been looking at memories and emotions and the photographs that trigger these.

The artists I have looked are .....................................................................................



Ideas:

Thought about presenting these in typical gold frames or a modern twist reflecting my life and views today.

New Vic Theatre..

After my end of Level One exhibition my canvas was chosen to be exhibited in a show entitled 'First Go' at the New Vic Theartre in Newcastle..

A review of the show was published in the Sentinal newspaper

''.. or what about the deep ceramonial sheen Stacey Williams imparts to the extracts of her heartfelt teenage diary; and investigation into ''Identity'' and ''Personal Journeys'' which are presented as newly gleaming unearthed treasure.''

I felt very priviledged to be part of the exhibiton.

Secret Diary Balloon..

Level One

The project involved my diary extracts; some of the more personal ones; attached to helium balloons and left to float away.

A further exploration of the subversion of the diary form. Going along the sort of lines as a 'postsecret' or something in an issue of 'found' magazine.

I included a short message '' If you have found me contact secretdiaryballoon@hotmail.com stating when and where you found my diary - part of an art project''

I released 10 balloons in total all with these messages and extracts attached in plastic folders; unfortunately I had no emails.

I documented the process through photography and later manipulated the images by over laying them with text.

Over the summer I contacted the publisher of Delicate Situations; My project was published on the website http://www.delicatesituations.blogspot.com/ as part of this online exhibition..

''A group show
Delicate Situations is a year-long exhibition from 15th January 2007 to 15th January 2008 bringing together work that will be placed in any space anywhere. The one common factor is that all the works in the exhibition are left in a place (for as long as they last).''

I felt the project was interesting; I liked the way it had a sort of childish element to it; and linked with my aim quite well which was to ''publish'' my secret diary. But I would like to repeat the project on a larger scale..

i.e aquire more balloons; gain some sort of sponsership (Clintons; Hallmark etc)

I really enjoy the idea of publicly involved artwork; and gaining a response from strangers ultimately forming some sort of relationship with them.

My idea intially was developed from my Hanley project in which i 'fly' posted diary extracts in public places ( On buses; Car windows; billboards.) It developed, I felt into a message in a bottle effect.

Future Projects

• Repeating the secret diary balloon project but in a public space i.e town centre; public fete or fair; inviting people to write down a thought;secret;confession;worry;note;reminder and let it float away on a balloon; documenting the process through photography and recording it in another diary of its own.

• Gathering more photographs and using them in another project or as a peice in its own right.

Other Ideas

Gold balloons; precious, valuble; using gold outline stickers; Filming...