It all starts now.

Well everyone, I am officially in my first week of university.
I have had my first lecture and also my first tute which were not in great depth but they were still there and gave me some idea of what I will be in for.
At the moment I am on a day off but have decided to come to the university to complete a mould that I am making but the sculpture studion appears to be closed up!! Maybe because it is out of supervised hours....mmmm....So I have decided to come into the computer area and work on my blog for a bit before I try and track down a lecturer that I have been trying to find....They may not be here today that's all and may be on the coast as it is Wednesday!!
Makes it hard.
I am having my wisdom teeth pulled tomorrow.
That should be fun!!!
Not!!
But it is better to get it all out of the way as soon as possible .
I will be happy, I suppose, a week from now when it is all over and I don't have the pain or the swelling anymore...
Back to the salt water mouth wash!!! Joy!!
I am going to Alex's place tonight for the last supper before I have all the teeth extracted.
We are having roast I believe...And maybe a few drinks with Phil and Tracey....We will see....

I have been working on a sculpture/intermedia piece that we have to have constructed in 7 weeks and has to be focused around politics of place. We were told to select an area of Southbank to work with and have to develop the work around this area.
I have chosen the pond which was constructed after Expo88. I do not believe that it was around during that time. I have done a little research into the area and note that the natural environment was Mangroves.
I thought that I would construct a feather out of wood that I could bend to look like a feather. The only difference is that I only want to do a skeletal impression of the feather. This would demonstrate a man made environment. It would symbolise man manufacturing nature.
This feather would be suspended depending on the size of the feather. It would be floating above a resin mould of a feather floating on water which would represent the pond. This resin mould will have a light that shines though it and up to the feather constructed out of wood.
I would then use the feathers that I have started to collect and the reed, or at least fake reed that I find, and use this in a swirling motion around the resing sculpture to represent ripples of water.
Within the reeds and feathers I though that I may have words that represent the history of the area and the species of animals that live in there.
The feather will represent also the more dominant species of bird that dominate this particular area of the park then the lesser species around in the ripples.
I hope to demonstrate a demographical representation of the animals that live in this area and their own "political" structure.
I don't want to make it too complicated visually but it will have to represent the species that occupy the area and also show some history.
I will be able to use photos and sound as well but with the photos I thought that I would cut them into the shapes of feathers that can then be used in the reeds.
I have already made some recordings of the area. Woke up at 4 this morning and come done to southbank to record the pond and the birds waking. I have then done more recordings around the pond to get other bird noises at a later time and all I need to do is get a recording of the evening time.
I would like to have recordings that don't have people in it but this would also distracted from the point of view I have taken. After all, this is an artificial environment and having people walk through it is a perfect representation of bringing nature to the people rather than people going to the nature.
There is a lot to consider and this is only the one subject...But I have a lot that I want to achieve with this one as it is my first. I want to achieve the best result with everything I do but I really want this one to work and not look like it was something created for a year 12 subject.
My art have to start looking professional if I want to achieve the best possible result.
Not that I think my previous works have taken the look of a year 12 project, but there is always room for improvement.