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After-Effects Animation
Sketchup Animation - 1
Sketchup Animation -2
Sketchup Animation - 3
After-Effects AnimationPGCE InstallationThis animation was projected onto an installation I made for my final PGCE exhibition at the Institute of Education, London. It includes scans of prints and clips of 3D environments made at IOE as part of the studio-based portion of the course.The installation was a conceptually unresolved (open-ended) piece of work created via a branching process of experimentation and exploration. The viewer was invited to respond inquisitively.The installation was a sort of miniature, geometric landscape made from small pieces of wood. Each piece of wood was identical in terms of the floor space it occupied, but varied in height from 3-7cm. Some of the pieces of wood were printed with drawings made by hammering wire into their surface. The whole installation was covered in sifted white flour.The pieces of the landscape were uniform and fit together neatly like keys, bricks or children's toys. Their varied height created an interrupted surface that could signify an abandoned process or a workstation in use. The flour settled naturally in smooth, dune-like forms over the installation. Its surface was undisturbed, alluding to the passage of time. The flour was reminiscent of dust, sand or silt, but unavoidably it seemed out of place as a material. Flour is pure and refined, but also a raw substance. To me it signified a starting point, a building block and a waste product all at once. Strange, esoteric shapes, images and characters flickered across the installation - scanning, decoding, or calculating. The complex, indecipherable nature of the animation seemed to represent data of profound value, locked out of reach.When making this work I was thinking about ways of encoding and decoding the creative process, and wondering whether they were worthwhile. I was considering the ways society understands, accepts and attributes value to art and artists. I thought about how specialists have adapted to meet the expectations of society and what limits this has imposed upon the language of art. I tried to imagine how artistic endeavour might assume a role of greater importance within society and how this might affect social structure and culture. I wondered how such a society look and feel in comparison to our own.As an opponent of specialisation I was inspired to create an ambitious piece of work that required a degree of technical flexibility and a willingness to take risks. I still believe fervently that to play and ask questions are the most important things an artist can do. With this installation I aimed to articulate, promote and embody this belief. I continue to do this as a teacher.
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