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Hunterian Museum

Visited Hunterian to look at the specimens. Very interesting. I would like to go back & draw some of them.

I also went to the Zoology museum on campus too. 

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Mitchell Library

In February I went to Mitchell Library and looked at Govan Poorhouse applications in archives - see sketchbook for more info. 

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Final outcome placed in final location. 

After the initial worry about moving location & hanging, it couldn’t have gone more smoothly. Once I had the tools, I managed to hang the piece myself in under 30 mins. I was ready days before the opening, which left me plenty of time to make refine the zines and do contextual before exhibition

The work looked really strong with the white wall as backdrop. The bold colours really popper. It was definitely the right idea to leave the threads hanging from the acetate, this added another element to the work. 

The wire was barely visible from a certain distance, so the piece ‘levitated’. Very happy with final result. If I had more time, I would definitely think about making a video from the piece, incorporating the elements that I have mentioned previously - sound, smell, visual etc

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First hanging attempt. 

I brought the piece already prepared to hang, but I was advised to cut off the 4 hanging wires as it was too inconvenient trying to hang the work like that. Therefore 4 wires were tied to the ceiling and I attached the first section to the 2 lateral wires. However, they weren’t far enough apart on the ceiling and also too far forward in the exhibition space. 

I was extremely frustrating that I could not direct how I thought it should be hung as the wires were not put in the right place in the first place (too far forward, too close together) and then the scaffolding was moved away so no correction could be made. However, the overall placement was incorrect anyway as I had not anticipated how far apart each corner of the sculpture must be elevated in order to hang the piece successfully.

This was a very frustrating and worrying point. I felt that I had made huge mistakes and calculated incorrectly.  

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First experiment with the fishing wire. Initially tried the acetate portrait but after some thought, I think landscape is more fitting and more symbolic of the work. 

I have realised that in order to separate each sheet and prevent them all sliding together, I need to put small knots on either side of the sheet on BOTH corners. I was worried this many ruin the aesthetic but the knots were so small, it was very subtle. 

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Made some zines for the exhibition. Just photocopies of my prints, I layered different ones over each other to get varied results. Unfortunately they came out MUCH darker than I anticipated so in the future, I think I would experiment with the colours settings on the printer first. 

I organised all the pages in each zine randomly, so they were not the same. 

I used the sewing machine to sew the pages together/make the spine. This added a really interesting and individual element to each zine too.  

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I had thought that I would incorporate the latex casts into my final piece - I had plans to sew thread through them as well to create something sculptural, but the latex was quite hard to penetrate with the needle - it didn’t work on the sewing machine at all as the needle could not loop the thread from the bobbin through the main thread. 

I built a sort of structure with the latex casts doing the job of bricks between each layer of acetate. However, this composition almost completely obscured the visually interesting qualities of the latex and acetate details so I decided not to try and force the incorporation of the latex. However, I am thinking about melting them together in the future. 

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Sewing>therapy>relaxing>ASMR

Process heavy again. 

I find the repetitive noise of the machine to be very meditative (when it’s not going too fast!). I would like to bring all this together at some point in the future - sound, smell, visual, spoken word, abstract imagery. 

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Interesting lines from the medium here. If decide to proceed further with this piece, I would definitely make video work.