My latest tutorial was extremely useful and I am now a lot more certain of how I want to pursue the project. We were talking about my sellotape prints of lichen and rust, and how they were 'Noticing the Unseen', which I proposed to do at the beginning of the project. The prints are a documentation of the 'stuff', the material residue of a place that can't be seen or is not acknowledged. I explained my ideas about how the sellotape takes in the environment around it, through being adhesive and transparent. Talking through these ideas in a conversation made me think of combining the two together, so that I might make clusters of sellotape which contain the essence of different environments. I really like the thought of the cells being a habitat for these things, which distorts the normal establishment of things. for We also spoke about how my work has a definite aesthetic to it, that of decay and imperfection and perhaps I might want to explore looking at how fruit or plants structurally decompose.
I have started to develop the idea of the sellotape habitats, experimenting with different compositions, positioning the adhesive on the outside instead of inside of the cells. Reversing the adhesive side changes how the cells stick together so that they form more organic shapes than the previous maquettes. I am really drawn to these shapes, they remind me of bubbles fitting together, or proper microscopic cells multiplying.
My aim now is to create little clusters of these, collecting surfaces from different places that I encounter. To start with I am going to make a few maquettes that represent the environments in a more straightforward way to get a feel for how they will work. I have decided upon: home, beach, Woodlane Gardens, and street for my first experiments.
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