Idea
We've been given a brief about journeys, so I've decided for this project I am going to go out walking around my local area and I shall be leaving random footprints in the surrounding environment. This Idea came to me while discussing this with one of my tutors Jo, as I want to carry on with my casting, that I had done in previous years. The idea that I had was to make a mark of my journey, while walking around and leaving a personal imprint. So I decided to do bare footprints and pour plaster into them, I was going to take the plaster casts back out again, but I have recently changed my mind. I'm just going to leave them where they lay and see what happens to them, maybe my journey will fade because of the weather or other interaction with them, but who knows. While doing all this I will make photographic documentation of my journey and what I have done, so people can see where my journey was and goes.
Artist research
The artists that mainly inspired me for this are Richard Long and Clare Twomey.
What inspired me about Richard Long's work is that he works with nature but he is also changing it. Richard makes paths of his walked journeys, by adapting the environment he is in, either by adding things like stones or taking things away. He then has the piece photographed to go into books or other sources, to display his work, as you can see my idea resembles Richard's work concept and how it's linked to inspire me.
The other artist I found was Clare Twomey, although she works more with ceramics, there is one piece of hers I found really interesting, that piece was 'Consciousness/Conscience.' The art work is a ceramic installation, made of a thousand hollow unfired bone china tiles. Which are laid on the floor, so you have to walk across them to get to other parts of the exhibition, while you do this you leave a path of broken tiles. I liked this idea as you created you own path, within this part of the exhibition and that's something I want to do within this project. Which is to go out and recreate my own paths, journeys, while leaving my imprint on the walks.
My work and experimentation
Experiment
The pictures above was my first attempt at making foot steps but then taking them back out. Which lead me to changing my mind and not to remove them, because it was destroying the environment too much.
Unedited photographs
Here is my documentation of my outside journey art work.
Edited photographs
I couldn't decide which I liked best out of the photographs, edited or not, so I put both up. With the edited ones I changed the effect on them and colour, brightness, contrast and sharpness to the desired amount.
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Adaptation ideas in different environments
My tutor was asking me questions today on how I could carry on with this idea and adapt it into different places, so we talked about a few ideas, I could maybe do in the future. As my work was based on foot prints, I started to think of other ways of creating them inside.
1. Make a template of my foot out of card and use coloured powders.
I was thinking of making a stencil of my foot, then pouring coloured powder through it to make a journey of foot prints. This can be done on most flat floors, plus if other people walked across them the powder will make their journey too. I think this could be a possible and interesting project to do.
2. Sand
You could make a sand pit, either dry or a little wet, then have people walk all over it to make prints. Or you could do the template of the foot again but with sand, maybe even coloured sand.
3. Roll out clay
What better way to make negative of a foot print than soft clay, it'll get all the definition of the foot. Plus with the same idea as above, you could let people make their own journey over yours and end up with a collage of prints.
4. Get some turf and put it inside.
Bring nature indoors, it's an odd place for it to be already and with the plaster filled foot steps, it would draw even more attention to it.
5. Paint feet and make foot prints with that.
You could do this anywhere and nearly on any surface, The street, walls, floors, roof, tables even. You could also have any colour and make it stand out as much or as little as you wanted.
6. Casts
I could make casts of my feet in different materials and leave them in places that I go, like a round the University or on a park bench.
7. Chalk
Could go back to your youth and draw around your feet with chalk, in various places.
There's so much you could do with marking your journey with foot prints, the list is probably endless but I can't go on forever.
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