Environment

  My process of looking at environments to display my work, from collaborating with Mae in the Studio to working from home due to lock down. Began with my initial thoughts written in my sketchbook and measuring the space me and Mae decided on. I took photos of all the places i considered and did a write up for my folder.

Environment

  When thinking of my final major I instantly began looking at environments to present my work and understand what space, lighting and atmosphere I had to utilise. At first when considering a collaborative environment with Mae on the circus tent we looked around the studio together to discuss each other’s thoughts.

  Some areas had already been claimed by other people, which was unfortunate as the dark space would be a perfect atmosphere and circular shape for the circus tent. However, with the space that was available was the space in the middle of the FAD space and open space in front of the messy table. I was quite fond of using the open space in FAD as I could place my posters and arrows throughout the studio and college, leading people to the tent. However, Mae wasn’t fond for the idea, she said the tent would be in the way of other peoples work even though everyone could walk around it. 

   As it was a collaborative environment, I respected her decision and considered other areas that caught my attention. The outside area by FAD intrigued me as I find the way the bushes creating little hide outs creepy but explorative for a kid. Therefore would be perfect for a little inviting circus tent hidden behind the leaves. The biggest fault for placing our work outside would be the weather, so would still need to consider an inside area just incase. However, the slight chance of weather being bad put Mae off the outside area. Which now that I think about it, despite having a great atmosphere and natural surroundings for a circus tent, it would have been difficult to make sure our tent was fully supported if it was hand made fabric put together by us. 

   The idea of supporting the scraps of fabric to create a tent turned us to this closed off corner of the room. We could use some of the boards to hold the fabric up for shape as we connect the point of the tent to the ceiling. It is also a dark area and spacious. Enough inside. We measured the walls and height creating a drawn plan in our sketchbook. We would have to take down the side half board on the right. Then we could have a little trail leading out from the curtain opening in the tent. This was quite an exciting idea to explore and make work, especially as a collaborative piece. Unfortunately college was closed due to COVID-19, forcing me to work from home and having to replan my environment to present my work. 

  One of the first things I considered when at home was that I could still possibly place posters outside. However, with many people going out in the day for their exercise and most walls belonging to people’s houses or front walls. I wasn’t comfortable with the idea of placing my work without permission. I could make small stickers to place on lampposts instead or in other public areas like the park fence.

    Other than that, I considered about two places to lay out my work in my house. My house is very narrow/ small rooms so I could place posters and arrows directing people to the small tent through my hallways, either leading upstairs or through my house to the top of my garden.

(Did take more photos to show where i could place each poster but could not fit them all here)

   

    I prefer the idea of forcing people to trek up two flight of stairs to reach an underwhelming lie. However, the space upstairs isn’t a good fit to create an atmosphere, or even place the mini tent in an angle that pulls the eye to the tent instead of the door or desk. Overall, the outside area fits more as it would be the natural environment for a real tent. Additionally, I could take photos throughout the day to see how shadows and nightfall change the environment. As long as my dog doesn’t tamper with the small tent on the floor. When I actually create the pieces, I could re do these environment photos in the garden to see where the idea fits best and most efficiently.

     (i have a few videos to capture the noise but am struggling to upload them here)