There were many questions raised during this project. The largest ones for me are how I can be of best use and how to sucessfully combine two very different aesthetics and working methods. I suppose the way these questions were addressed was just to make the work and let it inform us. In this way this project was more like a learning experiencve than a finished piece and I felt throughout the project a little unsure. It was as if we were like beginning students with some background knowledge rather than two experienced artists with a set studio practice. It made art feel new in a very exciting way.
Our working method was mostly trial and error as we were both using materials in new ways. While planning and vision played a key role it also became important to allow for mistakes and lots of testing. It was also a learning experience about communication- because it is too easy for two different people working on the same project to have different visions. It was at this point that we started making sketches as a means of communication. We discussed them openly and tried to find the problematic nature of them (which often was financial or temporal) and create new avenues for this exploraion.
Our ideas evolved. Initially we discussed giving the viewer a feeling of suspension (making the viewer more aware of the body) while viewing the landscape, emphasizing the relationship between landscape and body. Our first idea was to create a web out of suspension wires. Then we discussed making a suspended platform that the viewer had to climb to see the landscape. Eventually the idea was whittled down to paper forms with lights in them.
I think that if we were to do another collaborative project it would be far stronger. For me this was an opportunity for us to explore the potential of our combined efforts and now that we have a feel for each others style we could develop our ideas further.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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