Peerie Projects

Still life from things I found around my room illustrating my ill feelings to being broke almost all the time but hey ho it’s the student life. And yes that is actual dirt in there, I had some of it left so I stuck it on some of the latest ‘What is colour?’ module pieces.

(you could say I was going to make an isolation installation about wanting to be alone)

Made from a bunch of sticks, glue and some paper. the pun speaks for itself here.

try and see if you can spot big smoke.

I used old book pages I found in my collected materials box. made entirely from that and some glue. 

Book it like a librarian idea.

Make a peerie scene of an auld croft hoose. The title came from a skewed version of, “You picked the wrong house fool” from Big smoke, a character in GTA San Andres. This is kind of a stupid idea but I mostly just want an excuse to make a peerie croft hoose out of stones and straw or something. 

Calendar made from wee rocks on paper. Scored out with different coloured pens or pencils. All the things I’ve had on every day. should probably scribble down the title of the piece somewhere around it.

Make one of those stick domes (like the ones Andy Goldsworthy makes) but smaller and glued together and stick (no pun intended) a wee tiny person inside, trapped, kneeling, arms extended. Just like a cage. Considering putting the title with it for it to make more sense why it was created. Sometimes the title of the piece is as much the piece as the piece is itself. 

The phrase was coined from TheThirdPew in this video: https://youtu.be/Eva-9QF-oJk?t=1m31s. 

Update: Or I could do something more experimental and try some filmmaking... something to think about for later.

Make a wee man pushing a pile of glued together rocks in his attempt at moving a mountain. Inspired by the Greek story of Sisyphus. Where Sisyphus is forced to push a boulder up a hill for it to only hit him and fall back down the hill for all eternity as punishment for the wrongdoings he had done. Futile and laborious tasks are reflected in this story which is something I can relate to more often than not. 

Update: This blog is my final piece. 

'I’m sick of being dirt poor' The letters are made of different materials.  ‘Sick’ should be made with bits of tissue paper with gunk on it, ‘dirt’ should be actual dirt with PVA glue into a mould or something and make ‘poor’ out of copper coins I have lying around. Or to make things a little bit simpler, get a cheap wallet or something and stick a bunch of dirt inside of it. Could just replace the letters with that or continue with the letters. Either way, It’s something I could do.

(And other pictures I found inspirational)

Andy Goldsworthy: Land Art 

The ideas I’ve come up with thus far all base themselves around a sentence, a pun or a phrase. That was my main inspiration for them. My secondary inspiration was just recurring themes in my own life. However, land artist Andy Goldsworthy has inspired me because he uses the landscape and it’s materials to create his pieces. He uses raw materials such as leaves, sticks and rocks and creates something of meaning from something originally meaningless.