Evaluation / What’s next?
The final outcome of my large mod rock piece has changed in many ways from where I first started with it. I have trialled and errored with it and with every experiment I had created layers onto this piece. I think this plays a crucial part to the context of the work because in the camp the tents walls were layered to keep them sheltered and warm. Through certain experiments working and not working lead me to change perspectives on how I can articulate and experiment in order to continue developing the piece.
Going into lockdown has also played a huge part in changing my practise in certain ways, for example I worked on smaller scales building tiny models and this helped me think about how I could display my work or build a tent in the future when I have the tools and space for it. Working digitally has also helped me in terms of creating concept photos and printing images to draw models onto them, this all can be used in future when I create as it is less time consuming and helps me envision creating projects to develop further.
I have definately gained confidence creating during this semester even with my personal circumstances and limited space, I can stop and analyse and criticise my work as well as reach out to peers for advise and feedback. I also feel confident that I have several directions I could continue creatively with this project, and its all part of experimenting with what works and what doesn’t!
From here, I can continue to create minature models, or concept photos of what I could do in future and how I could build my tent and where it could be placed. Not only do the minature models and concept photos help to envision artworks but they themselves are artworks. My aims in future would be to continue making several large mod rock pieces, and using newspapers, cardboard and other materials to form a tent.
If this was to be in an exhibition space, I would fill the floor with sand and add a fog machine which would represent the beach the Calais refugee camp was, and the fog being tear gas that was shot out on a daily basis. I could also add sound to make it more atmospheric such as sounds of the refugees shouting at the police, or sounds of the rubber bullets racing through the skies. This creates an atmosphere for the viewer/public to feel as if they are experiencing the camp themselves. On the floor would be the tear gas pellets and rubber bullets scattered across the sand, and these could be replicas I would make with plaster or jesmonite as I have experience from this from the first semester.
I would also like to have my zine on a shelf or inside the tent so viewers could physically sit inside the tent and read through my zine full of the camps photos and memories as well as being surrounded by emulsion prints of the camp on the walls, or hanging down from the tents walls.
Overall through material exploration, I have familiarised myself more working with newspaper and mod rock and learnt of its contents through experimentation.













