Detail and String

Starting off, my main aim in my work was to focus on detail, so stuff I might not pay attention to normally, paint splatters on the walls and floors, patterns on desks, furniture, flowers, plants, chips and dents, lines, scratches, shapes that were hidden in detail all around the department.

Starting class, the Foundation students had started making an exhibition within the room, it being made up of string, connected to the walls, door handles, floor, tables, chairs etc. Some strands of string extending across the entire room, others weaved together with different string making patterns, some hanging loose from the bodies of string.
We then had to record the detail of the string, it's from, colours, directions it's going etc. but through any media, so being recorded by taking pictures, videos, drawing, painting, sound recording, poetry, chalk and charcoal, wire, clay etc.

I first took pictures of certain parts of the string in the room, taking in the detail of their positions, colours, patterns etc. Before then drawing them up in pencil, pen, chalk and charcoal and then watercolour, adding a description of its form, if colours or patterns were included, if the string was weaved together and then what I thought it looked like and what kind of illustration, place or thing it may of looked like.

Evidence of my drawn work in pen and pencil.
I did it from a certain area in the room of the
 string, describing what it looked like and what 
was included.

I had drawn this in pen. Image of lines of string
coming from different directions from eachother
and joining at a middle point, making a small ball
or clump of string. I drew the red string to be
darker and thicker, the stripped string having little
diagonal black lines, while the white plain string is
drawn as a light pen line. It seems to make a similar
image of a location on an old map, the stripped lines
being train tracks, the other two being roads and rivers.

Drawn in pencil. Image of lines of string weaving
between other string to make a pattern as it's all
suspended in the air. It takes on a form where the
string all connects in some way, only a few lines
of string loosely hanging from other string. It's in
the form of when someone is making a tarp room,
but at the same time gives the image of looking like
a tornado, its shape and string being wrapped
around it.

The first two drawings/recordings I did focused on two different parts of the string that expanded across the room, though they weren't too far away from each other.
I mainly looked for certain patterns in my view to record and draw but being different from another part of the body of the string. The threads of string that were weaved together were white with two main supports of a dark red ad green string, the other threads of string that connected together while coming in different directions involved white, red and a white string with black stripes.

Evidence of my drawn work in chalk and charcoal.

I did it from a certain area in the room of the

 string, describing what it looked like and what 

was included.

The third recording/drawing of a view of string within the room was drawn in chalk and charcoal, a bit further from the other two bodies of string I had previously recorded.
Like before I looked for detail of the string, the shapes it made and the colours involved. There was a main white string running through the middle which supported to other white pieces of string and a red string which was wrapped around it,making a small hoop/noose shape in a certain part and angle of the string.

A room filled with string, like a giant spiderweb
Messy and complicated,confusing and dangerous
An obstacle spread throughout the whole room
On the walls, the ceiling, the chairs, tables, the doors
Patterns and weaves of the lines of string suspended
In the air with colours of red,blue green, white and black stripes
Crawling space being the only path to use to move around
Ducking and crawling,pulling of caught string in hair,clothes
Under shoes, it really seems like a human spiderweb
Hoops of wire and tufts of string hag from the mazes body.

I also recorded the room of string in writing, literature, a poem of some kind, saying how it looked, what it felt like to me, what it reminded me of, what it resembled and seemed to link to etc. This was a form of recording that was suggested but I hadn't done before, though it was also done in an automatic way, not planned but just wrote down what came to my head when I looked around the room at the exhibition of the threads of string, and in conclusion I'm happy with the recorded piece I did in writing.


Having recorded the detail of the forms of string I then moved onto making things to add onto the string exhibition. I struggled for quite a bit to think up an idea,though one of my classmates next to me was making a puppet out of wire, this inspired me to make wire models to hang from parts of the string around the room.
My first model was a attempt to make a skull shape which started off as a weird shape, as I tried to fix it and wound the rest of the wire around it, it had began to start to look like little fish, so I finished wrapping the wire around it and made a small hook at the ed so it would easily hang from a piece of string.

A small wire sculpture in the shape of a
small cartoon style looking fish

I had a hook on the end of the wire so it would
easily hang onto the string structure that was
around the room

I then tried again to make a skull shape, this time I was more successful. Once I had made the skull I started to then make a chest by wrapping wire around my index and middle finger that was in a glove, then connected it to a straight piece of wire that had a hook at the end which I inserted into the head wire piece and hooked it to a bit of wire. With the head, chest and neck/back connected I started to work on a pelvis which I just simple wrapped around the bottom of the back wire, after I then made simple straight wire legs with hooks at the end so it would hook ad connect onto the pelvis, then I made arms to connect to the chest with hooks as hands so it would easily hang from string in the exhibition. The result of my wire model seemed good to me, though had taken a while to make I was happy with how it turned out, taking on the form of a human/man hanging from the string by holding onto it.

The wire sculpture I had tried to make
resemble a human body as much as I could

I made hooks on the ends of the wire where
hands would be so it could hang from the
bodies of string

Another structure I had made to try a resemble the animal body
of a monkey with a long tail

I made hooks in the hands and tail of the
piece so it would easily hang from the
string like a monkey would in trees

My third model was made the same way as my previous one, made a skull shape, arms with hooks, legs, pelvis, though instead didn't add a pelvis and instead of one, I had made two chest pieces which I then merged together since they seemed a bit to spaced out alone. Also the back wire was longer which I then wrapped another two wires around it to make it thicker and more sturdy, looking and resembling a tail. Once done I hung the third model up by the hooks in the hand and tail, I was a lot happier with how this one had turned out since it was a little different from my previous one and had been a lot quicker to make, taking of the form and resemblance of a monkey using its tail to suspend itself in the air.

Onto my fourth model, I decided to make something a little bit different, with a much more different form and would be quite quick to make. I made a long piece of wire as a body and then wrapped two more pieces of ire around it to make it more sturdy and thicker, I then made a head shape with short pieces of two wires wrapped around each other poking out of it, wrapping the body wire with some of the head wire. Once done I had to strategically place it on the string structure and slightly wrap some string around it so it would stay in place and not tilt,it taking the form and resembling a snake.

A wire structure I had made to resemble the body of a snake
with a tongue poking out from its mouth

The shape of the structure as a snake would just have it to
easily sit on the string and slightly wrap around it aswell

My final last model was also going to be quick and easy to make due to its simple form. I wrapped up a ball of wire and then added on eight more pieces of wire to it,semi-wrapping them so they were secure and stick out from the model to resemble legs. Once finished it had taken the form and resembled a spider, a cartoonish style of one,which I then added onto another classmates piece of work since they had made a spiderweb pattern out of some thin rope, hanging the spider above it with some thick string that was attached to hanging objects attached to the ceiling. Even though it was quick to make I'm happy with how it turned out.

I hung the spider structure with someone else
piece, a spider web with paint dripping onto
paper beneath it

A wire sculpture I had made to resemble
the look of a cartoon spider

The wire spider hung from some black string
over someone elses work of a spider web