Project Update

Throughout the starting week we have discussed deconstruction and deconstructed the work. We talked about Picasso's blue period, the position of the piece, what was going on at the time it was painted and the title. We also decided on the theme of Poverty for our final piece, looking at the fact that the mans material possessions [IE: his guitar and the clothes on his back] are of more value than the person himself.

After a talk with Bob we continued to look at the objects and using actual clothing in our piece. So we gathered together clothes from home and looked around charity shops for other clothes and a guitar. It was a huge success when we managed to find a child's toy guitar which we could cast or put plaster over. The plan with the clothes is to cover them in either wax or PVA glue to shape them and then let them harden. We also discussed painting into the clothes to make them appear more worn and aged.

After looking at the groups photography another concept was exposed: the idea of blocked of areas, areas so full of danger that they have been blocked off so that people can't enter them. This could be an idea to include in our piece. EG: barbed wire, fencing, seals, padlocks etc.

An exploration of the studio introduced a new idea to us. We found fragments of old chairs and found that the shapes of the seats and the backs created a basic guitar shape. We are planning the try and make a full guitar out of the pieces, the fact that the chairs were both useless and worthless fits the theme and also shows the value of the old mans guitar.