Monday, 5 October 2015

Place making in my chosen site

I struggled to come up with an idea for this one. I think mostly because I see the whole place making concept as a way of improving a site whether its be renovating it or giving it exposure. But the problem with this is that I think my site is perfect as it is. If it was to gain mass exposure with any of the ideas I've proposed, it would take away the magical component that comes with being so untouched. So as a result of this line pf thought, I'm going to answer this weeks task with just no. Place Making wouldn't work in my site because I can't see creating a work for collaboration between companies and the government or community would be worth losing the appeal of this natural place. It's the classic problem of something being ruined as soon as humans put their hand to it. It's a miracle that we have been able to have a  reasonably minimal effect on this site so far, I wouldn't want to expand on the effect we have already had. Creating paths and steps as well as the human traffic that use these paths has caused enough disruption to this place without creating public art within the spot.

Response to Tasmanian Wilderness



This is just  a google photo because I had to work instead of going on the Higgs Track excursion. The first thing I would respond to in this space would be a mixture of the view and the vast space it covers. From this view point you can see an incredibly distance. I think it would be great to create a piece that really made people acknowledge the view. I think the way to do this would be to involve audience participation in the creation of the final work but not having it as the focus point. the idea I had was to get people to do their own tracings of the horizon as they see it from this viewpoint. I would then use all of these sketches together in an overlapping pattern to create an artwork. I think the most effective medium would be printing onto perspex or even a natural surface like tree bark rather than just painting them of tracing them on to paper.