Starting points
communication
starting the project i wanted to explore the way we have changed communicating with one another. Thinking about phrases that were not part of my everyday un till covid-19 and will probably continue within our language for the foreseeable future. again as i always want to start with text i feel i exhaust it quite quickly so started sketching screenshots of facetimes, zoom calls and texts i had had over lockdown. Thinking about how all are communication had been done over a screen and was all contained within boxes and rectangles. After exploring this idea of communication i decided to move forward thinking about restrictions and restraints that we have to cooperate with on a daily basis.
Tied up
following on from this idea of being physically restrictive on what we can do and where we can go now, i decided to illustrate this by using neon wire and physically tying myself up. I think the ones that i took in the dark create a very strong image and communicate that the focuses seems to be on the rules and restrictions rather than the person that is being held back (tied up).
boxed in
moving forward with the idea of being constrained i decided to make a wire cage, originally wanting to create a box with 6 sides but to make each side became so time consuming so just ended up making 3 squares and playing around with shape form line and shadow when taking images. I really like working with wire as a material and think id like to continue with this way of working as i feel i could expand on this idea of feeling trapped and caged by these current circumstances.
I also took sketches of my model with the different lighting as well as physically using it to draw, overlapping it and keeping my pen within each of the squares repeatedly. I liked this as it limited my movement to the singular space reflecting the current restrictions and how you can feel like going in circles repeating actions in such a small space.
Moving forward into next week i want to take forward the idea of feeling trapped tied and being restricted by the current covid-19 circumstances.
CHARLEY MILLAR ART 