working

There are about 8 weeks left until I have to have my work ready for assessment. I don't feel particularly engaged with my own practice - I keep reminding myself of my original brief - to draw attention to unnoticed spaces through a drawing in space.

To effect the drawing in space I have been using thread and wire. The unnoticed space I have chosen to respond to is a corner. Gaston Bachelard wrote of corners 'the meditative spider lives powerful and happy; the past shrivels up and all but disappears.....who is prepared to go beyond the spider to a point of identification with things forgotten in a corner?' (The poetics of Space)

I spent 3 months knitting with wire. I was making forms and then taking them to the space.....and fnding they didn't fit. I know what I have to do - that is make the forms actually in the space - RESPOND to the space. I also feel I need to go back to using thread not wire but I'm still not sure about that....

So this week I borrowed an overhead projector and I placed my stitches on it and projected the shadow onto the wall and into the top corner of my room. 

Then I traced over the shadow directly onto the wall - influenced by Richard Wright the Turner Prize Winner. I used ink and paintbrush as I found pens didn't work but that may have been due to my wall surface. I do like the precision of the pen so will keep trying. Maybe even use white - then it would be truly unnoticed...

I am considering whether I could place the original stitches in front of the drawing....a working back into the work which was pointed out to me by my friend Rosie. Or would the stitches placed on the wall themselves be enough? I love to draw....but is that te resolution?

At college this week we have been given a task - to stage an exhibition in a week.

We have called the exhibition 'An envelope' and all 8 of us will be responding to the subject of an envelope. I want to put an envelope in a corner - mainly because it is something you wouldn't expect to see and would therefore certainly draw attention to the space! I am intrigued by the concept of placing something completely unrelated to the space in the space but that then means I am no longer drawing in space.....or am I? I've been here before what is the definition of drawing!? Anyway I will keep the blog updated as to our progress.