MA Fine Art Student Exhibition
Date: January 23, 2020
Title: Monotony of Balance (Wanting Everything Makes Life a Nightmare)
Materials: Multimedia installation
Size: 15 feet tall x 25 feet wide
Year: 2020
Words about the work
A bear, a tree, and a giant mushroom top
Share sacred footage
Keepers of memories
Looped
Crossed over like a venn diagram
This is a holy place
Revealing stories
Of a prodical mother and her son
Description of work
Two paper paintings.
- The large one is 7 feet tall and 4 feet wide. The smaller one is 3 feet wide and 2 feet wide.
- Both inspired by Mark Bradford's paper paintings even though the larger painting started as bad Rauschenberg combine imitation. I appropriated personal photographs, handmade toys, found objects, wire, trash bags and acrylic paint.
Trees
Reused or appropriated trees from previous work and added added them as extra noise and projection cover for this exhibition.
- Tree and tree stump are made out of chicken wire, discarded fabric, paper, glue and acrylic paper.
- Small tree stump was used as a projector cover.
Videos
3 videos were placed in three crafty enclosures
- All videos were created using green screen.
- Programs used: After Effects and Premiere Pro
- Video covered by the tree stump projected the same video from Vol. 1 exhibit.
- Video covered by mushroom top (old umbrella), projected the video Saturn Bringer of Old Age which involves a mother and son living on different worlds trying to understand each other.
- Video inside the bear's eye is about procreation and dna.
Extra thingies
Extra objects were added to fill space, to add colour and sparkle.
- Various materials: seaglass, fabric, fake hair, hard clay etc where wrapped in cling film.
- Neon, fury hand made stuffed animals were curled up and tied up with rope made out of trash bags and different coloured tape.
- Neon yarn was added to get glimpses of artificial colour in order to tie in the artificial colouring of the tree branches in the video.
- A small number of sticks with coloured tissue paper were thrown into the mix to mess with the idea of what is real and what is fake.
- There was a battery powered neon light resting in a hand made woven bowl.
It's positioned in the front of the ERL beside the closet. It was the darkest area.
The following are photos and videos showing various angles and details of the installation.
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