The break from second to third year has meant that my practice has paused over the summer period. Despite this break away from the studio I have still been keen to continue with the work I had been making at the end of my second year. As a matter of course the start of a new year has meant a new studio and course tutor. With this has come a new perspective to my practice and the direction my work can take.
After speaking with my tutor about the potential of my work I was asked how I would occupy a whole building with my work if it were possible. The thought of a single line of text that travelled throughout the building occurred to me, and the potential of making site-specific works became apparent. To begin with, I have used my studio building as a location for this type of work. Using a speech I had written about the history of Falmouth University I printed and transferred lines of the text onto clear sellotape and use the specifics of the architecture to plan the route the tape would take. The linear qualities of the text are emphasised due to the single ‘line’ that is used in this process, and the smaller the text, the more it appears as a line and less as text. I have trialled this procedure in several locations in my studio building, but with the potential of taking the text out and into the wider environment; making the texts that are installed there specific to that location. The method that I have used initially has been on a small scale but letter transfers could be used if the location required something more robust. The scale could also be altered if the location required it, but at present I like the use of small size fonts to cross the boundary between the work being seen as a line and seen as a text.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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