The Project Continues...

After a few confusing days we returned to the project and decided to go with the original painting of the figures.

After experimenting with the clothes on the floor we also came to the conclusion that we should use all three of the garments made but with them all put together as one object rather than having them as three separate objects. With this decided we could the continue with the painting of the floor. At first we just painted our floor area grey to cover all the imperfections that had been left from the last projects. We then went on the paint a large circle like a spotlight for the clothes to go on. It was done with a roller in white paint and then worked into again with blue paint.

The grey floor once we had painted it.

The process of painting the spotlight.

The finished spotlight.

Once we had decided on our floor space we could finally attach the guitar to the wall and begin to tie the strings to the painting. We decided to hammer the nails into the figures' eyes to symbolise the Old Guitarist's blindness. The strings show the importance of sound and music to the blind man and how they make up for his lack of sight, it is therefore ironic that once the strings are attached to the clothes they will be straight like light which creates sight. The tightness of the strings also represents tension.

When looking at the photo, the piece looks quite eerie as it looks as though the guitar is hanging by itself in mid air.