Muireann🥀

After attached the tentacles I brought it outside and hung it in a tree. There wasn't as much wind as I would have preferred but I think it still came out pretty well. It reminded me of festival art.

( I was planning on having different types of tentacles some plastic maybe some of the cutoffs from the purple tracing paper but unfortunately I ran out of time)

I decided to see what it would look like if I messed with scale by putting it next to a tree. I like the contrast. The box definitely feels more alive outside vs in studio. I think it's interesting how different colour lights can make it seem like a different time of day.

This is just me taking photos to see how the context changes depending on where the box is. I injoy how the dead grass around it makes it look like the box is seeping into the real world. The yellow light is interesting it makes it look like the sun rise.

Diana Orving is a Swedish artist working primarily with textile sculptures. Her work explores themes of origin, memory, and the subconscious.

I love this work you can see the emotions in it. There's also something so free about the vulnerability. It just drags me in.

Maria McKinney makes work through a range of media including sculpture, installation, photography and video. She combines hand-craft with response to context, collaborating with scientists and farmers to produce projects that explore ideas surrounding genomics and agriculture.

When I first looked at her work I wasn't a huge fan but after looking into it a bit more. I find it so creative to incorporate the farm animals. And I really admire what she's doing by recycling the materials from the farm her weavings is also very interesting.

Boyd Webb is a New Zealand-born British photographer. Webb’s surreal images consist of constructed scenes he creates by building sets in his studio and using actors for theatricality. While the sets are artificial-looking, the people in them are resolutely real—thereby consistently toying with the edges of real and imagined spaces. While I wasn't a huge fan of a lot of his photo shoots I really enjoy the concept of setting up a scene that is completely adaptable to what you want in your photography. Here are two pieces that I really enjoyed.

Scenes and songs- this really makes me think of kids swimming in a lake and maybe one getting pulled in by a current.

Renounce- to me this image feel sad like a sailor song of goodbye or a funeral song for a sunken ship whatever it is it makes a very moving piece that I find fascinating.

Jeff Wall uses state-of-the-art photographic and computer technology to create images that evoke the composition, scale, and ambitions of the grandest history paintings. His works frequently have the formal clarity of documentary photography or photojournalism, but he often relies on staged or constructed artifices.

Decided I wanted the pattern of the fishnet to be able to shine true if you added light so I need the next layer to be semi transparent. After going through materials I decided to use tracing paper and paint it with a thin layer of the acrylic paint mixed with a lot of water to make it colorful. I decided to make at least some of the tentacles out of the same fishnet material without stretching it out by weaving it in a macrame twist knot.

Laura Fitzgerald while researching this artist I enjoyed the way she filled a space but wasn't overly drawn to her work. Until I saw this piece which drew me in instantly from the colours to the simplicity to how the lines lead down to text it just felt very relaxing and made me intrigued.

David Opie I was looking at his work for an insight into adding a narrative to my art. He is a member of the Picture Book Artists Association and Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Lydia Ricci works seemed to be very pertinent to what I was doing. I really enjoy how she uses everyday objects to make her mine sculptures. And I can only imagine how much time goes into them.

Joseph Cornell These miniature masterpieces transform everyday objects into spellbinding treasures. Together they reveal his fascination with subjects from astronomy and cinema to literature and ornithology and especially his love of European culture, from the Romantic ballet to Renaissance Italy. I love his work his little scenes are so fascinating and creative.

waiting for god of stage design is fascinating to look at in relation to making a scenes as a sculpture.

Tara Kearns I love how she uses colour to make everyday scenes seem mystical.

I ended up using clingfilm to give more of a water effect. I'm also curious to see how it reacts to light.

I then used PVA glue to stick the soil down and hot glue to stick down the weet which is just leftover bits for making the haystacks. But I did run out and had to make some more but I think I got the color pretty similar

I made the swing and cart out of coffees stirring sticks. I also stained the swing rope because the white was throwing it off. For the wheels I got them printed and decided to go with the hollow middle so I could add the wood I thought it worked better for a old cart. The walls are just cardboard tape and paint but they end up taking a day and a half to make. And I got all the boxes back some of them weren't what I wanted but I can make them work.