Maps and Journeys: Evaluation

Evaluation 

When beginning this project, I found it quite difficult because I was jumping from one idea to another. Documenting the process of how a bronze sculpture is made through a series of photographs presented in a book.

I had a hard time starting this project off, not knowing where or who will be working with a sculpture, so I sent out a few emails to the Art department wanting help with this project. Not knowing if anyone was going to reply back however having been lucky I got a reply back from someone named Chloe Napier a third year fine art student who has kindly agreed to let me work with her. Documenting this process has been exhausting because the casting of a bronzed sculpture has to go through various different stages, I missed some of the different stages the bronze sculpture had to go through due to having classes at the same times, however I managed my time and worked with the photos I had. 

I found myself documenting this process very enjoyable and learnt a lot about bronze casting along the way, I also found this interesting to document and has definitely inspired possible future works of mine.  it has been fun collaborating with Chloe and getting to know about bronze casting, as I had to work hard and progress faster I consistently kept messaging Chloe if she could come in on certain days to work on the sculpture so I could get the necessary photos I needed to progress further with the project. However  I found myself changing ideas again from deciding to go from a Constantine fold out book to a A4 landscape oriented book, once I had established that the book was going to be landscape oriented, it was easier to develop my idea further.   

     

Because this project is a book documentation of an bronze casting sculpture, a fairly simple straightforward process, although it's a book layout it's about the content of the work that I will be presenting  that will be the  important aspect of this project, and how sometimes less is more and effective. Furthermore what makes this project a little bit more interesting is that fact that sculpture (Torso) shattered and left a massive hole in the centre, this unexpected turn of events made this project exciting, showing how things never turn out the way you expect especially within a journey as the outcome is unpredictable. 

I am pleased with my outcome and believe the content of my project is strong. However being in a digital based course I should have done something digital based that would have best represented this process in a much more exciting way, I know I chose to do a book presentation however I feel something digital or film based would have been better.