The Bandwagon: March 2011

Alright ladies, so recently I've been working on some conceptual rubbish again, which obviously means, steer clear of the blog as I don't have the time or the patience in order to try an explain what Im trying to do in an almost readable fashion without sounding like a patronizing bellend, or at least more than I am normally.

As a result of this, I have some other stuff to show you. Because first year sculpture is full of incompetent inconsiderate pretentious fucks with made up nicknames like "Jeffro" (see what I did there?), we, instead of having a 5 week project, are having 5 single week projects of learning how to use materials. This week we hammered clay and cardboard, in a construction manor just to get used to making models for sculptures in the future.

this is the cardboard head I made, I wanted a big greek theatre head, just for a mess about and to see what the material was capable of. surprisingly fun and useful. I didn't want to finish the other side as I suck arse at making stuff look like I want, so no way would the second side look like the first, and I know it looks like craig david off bo salecta. shite.

I forgot how absolutely intense clay was before this, and I will work with it again in the future. It looks like this because, I was ill the day we were supposed to do this, so i came in another day to do it. I started making a rough shape and figured when other people came in I would modal it on them, yet no one came... for ever, so I got bored and thought fuck it and made a dope nose. This meant i stopped really caring about realism. I figured it would be completely original and reflect my total disregard for the rules and the history, show im cutting edge and renegade... Yet it looks like a shite 4000 year old african sculpture blanched of colour. fuck. back to the drawing board.

-Jeffro

For the next three weeks at college, we have a project strictly on research. This doesn't mean however that the next three weeks will be spent reading books and writing notes, oh no. That may be research as you know it, yet in the mind of a dyslexic artiste, research is making slightly smaller objects, drawing slightly smaller drawings and ignoring the justification completely.

This is a solid opportunity to do things for a laugh and not be arsed. I based my research on 'Materials'. We could base the research on anything we wanted, leaving the project almost retardedly open, I chose materials to keep it that open, as anything I make I can justify as being inherently reliant on its materials. I would argue that everything is inherently reliant on its materials, ie a building needs to be made of metal and bricks instead or bread and paper, and using this argument I can spend the next three weeks fucking about.

What I have been working on today, is playing with matches in a domino effect.