My Project Space Experiences

In the college, we get Project Spaces where a small group of us (such as 2 or 3) get a part of the studio to ourselves to spread out and work on anything we want for a week. I have had two Project Spaces this last year, and feel that my work has greatly benefited from it. 

Above are two photos of me working on my first Project Space. I loved being able to hang up (previously unsuccessful) monoprints and working on all of them at once, going between images when it felt right to do so. The connection and communication of my works, in what I call this "clusterfuck" display, was very powerful. I shared the space with classmate Anna, and I hope to work with her again one day, as we both love to create art while listening to music through earphones, dancing along, and letting the mood of the music affect our work. She also did rather abstract and powerful pieces of work, so we influenced each other through the week. During the mini exhibition where other art students came to view the Project Space, we asked everyone to write down what they first thought when they saw the work, and then to write down what they thought after some time looking at it, to see the differences between Looking And Seeing.

Below are some examples of work I made in that Project Space week!

 

In my next Project Space, I chose to focus on an idea inspired by Admire Kamudzengerere. I wished to further my idea of "What if there was a room, or hallway, full of eyes?" I shared this space with classmates Kelly and Sarah. I hope to be able to work with them again, as our work was very different, but had connecting themes on how things are seen. Sarah worked with photography mainly, Kelly worked with photography and monoprint, and I worked with monoprint. We also had a lot of blacks, whites, and reds, though other colours were occasionally used by the others.

A photo of other art students in the college looking at my work, during our mini exhibition at the end of that week.

And this is an example of some of the work I produced.

Below is a short video I made, to test how the eyes would look if put into a video. I do love the idea of "are you seeing the video or is it seeing you?" I hope to further this idea at a later point.