September install & some thoughts on it

The September seminar install and some thoughts on the feedback. This was the reconfigured space after feedback and thinking through the

initial display;

 

Glass bowls on plinth;

• The plants floating in liquid appear to have movement.
• This could be changed to a bigger bowl with smaller plants?
• hanging would add to this sense of movement, would also allow viewer to interact closer with objects, through able to walk around them, as on current plinth was too low.
• Use of light through these to cast shadows, this would add to dark room reading.
• Be aware of vessel type/shape as this influences reading.
• Link the paper works and bottles closer together as they both speak of movement, trace, light.
• Paper with screen prints on them on wall;
• Paper with bits in them speak more of craft
• lighter paper moves as walk past them
• Is the image to obscure?
• Should they go directly on the wall instead?
• Very fine paper created a sewn feeling, reflective of landscape
• Paper works have a sense of Japanese scrolls
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Glass plates on table:

• green glass, not resolved enough if combining with bottles.
• The plants between glass and under glass dome are trapped/caught, very static
• Re-assess this display strategy, as currently feels too decorative
• Glass dome:
• this has more of a curio element to it, as plant is standing and has 3D effect, able to walk around it.
• Questions to consider:
• have more with same plant, different plants
• Only 1 in middle of room.
• Least successful of the works presented were the works under & between glass plates.
• Other comments and thoughts to tease out;
• Actual dried bleached plants:
• use these without glass trappings, maybe direct on wall? with light through them to create shadows, are these then the true ghosts?
• Science and Victorian curio;
• Aesthetically the difference between science and Victorian curio;
• Science =
• clean, clinical, white, lab coats, sterile, lots the same, white glass, bright.
• Relates to bleached plants in vessels, white screen prints on paper
• Victorian =
• stuffy, dust, yellowing, many different, different vessels, green glass, badly lit
• Relates to: dried plants that have turned yellow, plant under dome and between glass.
• Losses and gains:
• There are losses and gains in the work, what are these?
• bleaching =  the act of removing colour. Very brutal & harsh
• starved of light, kept in the dark
• loss of photosynthesis ability
• plants have lost their colour, their vitality & living, but have gained a fragility, a sense of unreal
• what does this address in world now?
• loss of colour  - the plants have become albescent (= the condition of being or becoming white or whitish), they are now monochromatic, they are clean, purifying, can also be detachment, disinterested, isolated, it is unnatural
• Are these white plants the soul of a plant? as it is said that photographing people in B&W, you capture their soul.
• These works are more about light & lack of light, with the content is still plants.

Need to figure out what the work is addressing in the world now……