Final

So if I had the time this is what I would have as my final piece...

I world have two of these 4 times the size on the wall with my memories they won't both look like this and my class mates memories and a box that is 200mm/200m/300mm with a lid. it would be simple but there would be a toy soldier climbing out and a carving maybe on the side. The box would be on my set of drawers which is my proud-ish memory of the last three years. there would be a pen and some sticky notes or bits of paper on my drawers for people to write their memories.

what else i would put in the memorial?

Well looking back at what I put behind the door a lot of those thing held great memories for me and my class mates. but not I have been thinking and we all have memories from the last three years and I should have added that somewhere in my FMP. looking back I would have made a small box for the people that came to see my work to write down there memories or even put something that makes them remember a great time into the box. (and they could have come get it back or leave an address  and number for me to drop it off (within 2.5 miles))

8/7/15

This was the original idea i had from Anna Louise Parker's lizard piece, and I feel it worked ok but it could have worked better unfortunately I have now ran out of plaster of paris.
















This is the inlaying i tried and it didn't work too bad but because i have been working on a small scale it was hard to scrape the plaster back. but i am not unhappy with the results.

here i dropped the soldier into the plaster and when it dried i was going to take it out but i quite like it being there, for the little cracked man i push a toy man into the plasticine and took it out then i paired the rest of plaster into it and waited for it to set but he cracked.

So i have done both inlaying into the plaster and the idea i had from Anna Parker but they did not work as well as i hoped. so if the next time i try I'm going to give up on that idea. so now I'm looking at the final idea and how i would like it to look.

So now I think simple is better and loss is more so although I did spend all yesterday do what I thought to be what if I make it, it would look like but know I think I need to try out inlaying like I did with the tiles. I also need to try out that thing that I wanted to do to make it look like Anna Parker's work. So that is what i will be doing today.

7/7/15

This is what I have done today, I have been drawing ideas in my book and this is one of them. And I wanted to see how it would look in 3D. So if I'm honest I don't know where to go here...

 

But now looking at this and thinking i think this is too much. so for the final idea I will be making a prototype of a simpler design and making it out of a easy cut wood called Balsa wood but I will still make the base out of grey board because there isn't a big enough piece to make the base as well.

How I would make the final piece from wood...

If I was to make my design out of wood I would make it like this...

I would make it about 300mm by 450mm and 10mm thick. So first I would get a bit of beach ply at 292mm by 442mm and then I would mark out 10mm thick, where I would be putting the segments, then I would carve down about a millimetre. Then I would cut out the segments to size 40mm high. Then I would fit them tightly into the slots. then i would finally

These are some of the I'd put in the final piece

The coloured circles are stickers from when I first met Piotr and i had stickers all over my face. The cat would be a toy plastic cat that represents the cat that was always there when Aimee and Amy went out for a fag. The pasta is there because of the over cooked pasta from the Bistro. HD eyebrows are there because of Amy and her HD eyebrows. The hand is from when Piotr waved at me and I was in a bad mood and I didn't really know who he was so I walked off. the toy soldiers are from when I walked to Tesco with toy soldiers in my hair. We played hind and seek last year and that is why the numbers are there.

I have don't this simple design and I like it.

I like the simple idea of the cabinet of curiosities but I feel Wayne Chisnall is too complex for what I'm thinking I like simple it says more with less. So I have been making little models of my ideas so now i need to think about how they would be made and with what? 

what would be in the final piece and where will they go?

what shapes will i use and how will the things fit?

what is a memorial?

A memorial is an object which serves as a focus for memory of something, usually a person (who has died) or an event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or art objects such as sculptures, statues or fountains, and even entire parks. so this is what I am looking to do make something to make people remember they time at college and if I thought about it I could have make this FMP really good.

Day of the Dead

This is a cabinet of curiosity that looks like it a bit of a day of the dead thyme. Day of the Dead is a festival of the day celebrated by places all around the world but is started in Mexico and it is celebrated on the 1st and 2nd on November. They believe that at 12am (midnight) on 31st of October the Gates of Heaven open up and the spirits come down to earth and celebrate with the living.

However I'm not looking at using day of the dead in what would be my final piece because day of the dead is about the dead and I have been in this college for three amazing years so when I leave this place will not be dead to me, I will still go to sewhat and the end of year show I will still come see Dave and Jon when I go to Oxford. So this is not the end, its a see you again, don't know where, don't know when but I will see you again.

Cabinets of curiosities

 I have been looking at different cabinets of curiosities and its a good start for my research. I really like the cabinets of curiosities idea because its simple but it looks really good. So far I have been drawing and making little models like this one.

This was my first attempt

This was my first attempt of a design for a memory plaque but it didn't work very well because one of the sides fell off. So I need to go back and try with something more than glue. So now I will use masking tape to reinforce the sides. As I said in the first rant about me getting a referral, I said about Dave showing me a thing my sister's class did for a cabinet of curiosities and their designs for postcards was where I got this idea from. I really like this idea and would love to do this idea in my own way and instead of curiosities have memories that will become curiosities over time to other people.

Idea

This is a piece by Anna Louise Parker this has given me an idea for my work. I could use clay or plasticine to make an imprint of something and use plaster to make it look something like this. I am thinking of doing it with a toy soldier but I am not sure yet.

Get my shit together idiot night!

So i have been given a referral and now i need to go back and see where i was for the acts hen plan I'm going back to when i did the plaster memoierals and seeing where i went wrong from there dave showed me a thing that me sisters year did for a postcard competition where they used their curiosities and now I'm going to go back to the drawing board and see how i can pass there is lots of good ideas i did but i need to work with them and look at furniture and where i can fit that into my work for i am a furniture designer and i need to show that in my work and see where i do that. now I'm going to sleep I'm too tired for this shit nigh night and i know i can do this i have the power and i will look to see if anyone has done what u=i do doing peace out.

Why make a memory box?

Our homes are filled with objects that hold a personal memory; letters from loved one or a toy from childhood. Putting these items in a memory box is a way of presenting objects and the memories associated with them so that others are able to learn and discover. Memory boxes can also help to generate conversations between age groups. Young children might play a game-guessing
what an object is or what it might be used for i.e. glove finger stretchers or a sardine tin opener. Older people might find their own memories are stimulated by an object in the box or discussions about an object perhaps they owned a similar item.
Memory boxes are being used more and more to engage people living with memory problems like
dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease. Memory boxes provide opportunities for conversation and mental and emotional stimulation which can benefit those suffering from memory problems. Finally, the simple act of creating a memory box particularly if you make this an activity you do with friends of relatives can be fun and enjoyable and may one day be a wonderful memory in its own right!

FMP

I am going to look at making something that looks like this, however because I do not have the expensive equipment to bend wood. So now I will be looking at using different materials to make it.

Hootch Cabinet

This is Hootch Cabinet by Scott Armstrong and I love it because it is not strait.

Steve Altman

I've been working with wood for 40 years. For about 20 of them I was a cabinetmaker in New York City doing what is generally called "high end residential interiors." I worked for some of the richest families in the world.

Now, I just like to make boxes. Maybe it's because my father made boxes, too, except he made them out of paper and cardboard in a display box factory many years ago. Sometimes I played in that factory as a child. I saw lots and lots of boxes, canyons of them. I guess it had some effect on me.
I know that they're just decoration - bits of eye candy perched on a dresser, sitting on a desk, or plunked down haphazardly on a table. Hopefully, though, inviting a closer look, they also provide a glimpse of wood's infinite possibilities: Sight and touch, color and shape, figure and texture, revealed aspects of natural wonder, arrangements bound by simple human effort...
Plus, they hold things.

Mark Doolittle

The trajectory to my art has been through a pathway of science. During an era of tremendous advancement in cell and molecular biology occurring in the 1970s and 80s, I gained a doctoral degree in these fields from the University of California at Los Angeles. At this institution, I pursued a career in biomedical research while developing a keen interest in woodworking and art. I began to seriously produce wood artwork in 2002, and have recently transitioned into a full-time wood artist.

My style and approach are my own, greatly influenced by my biological background. In my artwork, I try to express the form and line of growth and symmetry encountered microscopically in cells and tissues, and macroscopically in living organisms throughout the natural world. Without attempting to accurately portray biological structures, I rather use organic shapes and abstract forms, like holes and fissures, to elicit the perception of biological growth in my artwork. Moreover, I often incorporate actual biological specimens, such as fossils and butterflies, as central features in my sculptures, playing off their form and symmetry. Wood seems a natural choice of medium for these sculptures, as it is derived from the processes of biological growth that my work tries so hard to capture.