OPEN TASK 3

Playing with light and shadow, shape and form.

I tried to mimic a gallery space using 3 small canvas boards. I like that the shadows on each canvas board is different, but is created by the same figure. I also like the idea of regarding each of the shadows cast on canvases, as a 'painting'.

I would like to make it more interactive by allowing the audience to use their phones or own light sources to create their own "paintings". I will provide only the structure and the canvases. But the artwork will not be complete without audience involvement. And each person's experience of the artwork will vary depending on the light they cast (its strength, colour, angle, distance).

My next step is to experiment with sculptural forms of the centre piece and installation methods.

Influences:

Eva Hesse Hang Up (1966)

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/71396/hang-up

23.05.20

I was not able to source many tiny canvas to create many small installations to display at once, so I photographed each wire shape installed on the same canvas structure.

Possible Justifications/Interpretaions of choices:

White canvases:

- Semiotic relationship of 'the canvas' to 'art object'.

- Mimics a gallery space; could hold connotations/critique of the 'White Cube'. (Underlying elitism, exclusivity and glorification of 'art' by white cube contrasted by the smallness of the work)

https://arts.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/arc-of-life-ODoherty_Brian_Inside_the_White_Cube_The_Ideology_of_the_Gallery_Space.pdf

Shadow:

- Physical distance between the 'mark-makers' and the 'marks'

- The mark is instantaneous, which echoes the immediacy that our generation craves

- Work benefits from more participation (variety of angles and light sources)

- Shadow is truly 2 dimensional

- 3D to 2D - flattening figures in 3D space

Wire:

- Sculpture or Line drawing in a 3D space?