Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Mold, Lentils & Stitch

I started off with a bunch of ideas, and the ideas still keep coming as time goes by. At first I wanted to do something really big, and I was thinking of big scale art work--ofcourse only with numbers. Similar to what Neil from Art Attack does. Then ofcourse, being one women team I had to simplify my ideas. Here is a list of what I've come up with so far that could be doable.

1- Taking photos of a residential building over sunset and sunrise. Would have to film this a few times, maybe over a 4 day period. Much would have to do with the lighting. People coming home, turning their lights on + off. In the end, I'd photoshop the numbers within the building windows, as if it were naturally sequenced to show up as a number 3.
2- Paint rusting and pealing off naturally to form numbers. Could be done with paint, hair dryer, water and wood.
3- Human figures forming into numbers
4- Silhouette of hands forming into shapes and then numbers
5- Growing mold and fungus. I was very serious with this idea and began to research on how to go fungus. But one problem: you need time and patience because you can't control mold. When it appears, it appears, and usually in small quantities.
6- Growing lentils. This is a work in progess. I have my lentils planted and watered and I'm just waiting for stems to grow. I started Sunday and its been around three days. The lentils have become fat causing their outter skin rip apart..maybe thats where their stem will branch out from.
7 - I just thought of something today and it has to do with stitching numbers. Im thinking of videoing myself stitching numbers in a gradient manner. I think it'd be so neat!!




Once I see a little stem growing ill add more lentils around the numbers so they are not so obvious.

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