the big pink chair frame in the middle of the room

as the project is coming to an end I find myself wanting to carry on and take it as far as I can but I also feel quite relieved and very excited to start the electives. Over all the first semester was a lot of fun and I learned a lot from just being allowed and even encouraged to fool around with different materials and being given room to make my own mistakes. The whole idea of working out ideas like this was such an alien task coming straight from leaving cert where everything is just laid out for you. Over all I've had a great experience and I hope I've done enough to be able to continue that on, for my last piece of the project i created a 6ft tall, pink steel chair frame. I was able to find a space that allowed me to this and someone to guide me through the welding. it was a lot of fun to make and I'm quite disappointed I can't have it down for my assessment but bus eireann didn't seem to keen for me to strap it to the top of the bus down, but oh well. The concept behind this is just where i naturally progressed from my project, it's all about taking the everyday boring, mundane and banal and making you pay attention to them, taking them out of the light and context you usually see them in and forcing you to look at it and consider it properly and not just let it sink into the background.This topic has been explored by great artists such as Alice Maher and Claes Oldenberg

so after doing the inflatable sculpture workshop I decided to try to do it for myself. Inflatable sculptures allow you to create large sculptures quickly and cheaply which is ideal for someone in college. so here's a video of my sculpture, it takes a minute or two to inflate properly and the styrofoam didn't quite circulate around like I had hoped but i learned a lot from this and plan to use what I've learned on my next sculpture.

inflatable snow globe

so for the last week or so I've been working out ideas for an animation and drawing up a story board. After a talk with one of my tutors I came to realize that to properly put across my concept I'd have to move away from just flat 2d images.