Planning Sculpture

Fashion Workshop

Further plans for sculpture to be moved through

I have thought about design and the logistics of building something large enough for a person to walk through, and decided that rather than attaching the curtains to the roof of the studio at Ruskin which is too high up and rather than attaching them to the lighting which hangs down which could be quite restrictive for the shape, I will build a structure which will house my sculpture.

I envisage a large wooden cube shaped frame which will allow me to be flexible with the shape the curtains make within it and will also give the piece a kind of individual look that may draw people into it more, whereas the white curtains on their own in a white room may just blend in. The design will be similar to 'the cube' on the popular TV game show The Cube except that there won't be glass sides. The Cube off've TV is 4x4x4 and the idea of the show is that the challenges set become difficult when being observed from outside the cube. Therefore both with my project and with the game show, the stage is designed for observation of human behavior.

Metals Workshop

Silver Soldering

Experimental Printing

Harrowdown Hill

One advanced technique for tilt-shift photography, Smallgantics, is used for motion-pictures; it was first seen in the 2006 Thom Yorke music video Harrowdown Hill, directed by Chel White.

Shape for Sculpture

Geoffrey Koetsh

Koetsch's Maze is a miniature made from folded paper and polyurethane resin and represents the unconscious as well as our attempts to find the way into the minds of others. I will begin by making a miniature of my sculpture similar to this.

http://thebeautifulbrain.com/2010/05/geoffrey-koetsch-gallery-interview/
http://www.koetsch.com/sculpture/

Context in Disney Animations

There are examples in these two Disney classics of dehumanization of human characters and anthropomorphism of non-human characters. Tarzan is a fictional feral child raised in the jungle by apes who clashes with civilisation and return to the jungle in the end. Similarly in The Jungle Book, Mowgli is raised in the indian jungle by wolves.

The Chimpanzees' Tea Party

The chimpanzees' tea party was a form of public entertainment in which chimpanzees were dressed in human clothes and provided with a table of food and drink.

The first such tea party was held at the London Zoo in 1926, two years after the opening of Monkey Hill. They were put on almost daily during the summer until they were discontinued in 1972.

http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/A47905743

My project on stereotypical behaviour questions the way we behave as humans and presents historic examples of feral children who lack typical human behaviour. The Chimps' tea party, although now non-existant, demonstrates animals being taught how to behave like humans and inevitably failing - hence the connotations of the phrase with chaos and disorder.