The Car Park Project - Starting Point

A group of fellow students and I have been asked to take part in an external exhibition, our exhibition will be held in a carpark in Chester city centre and we are allowed to choose where we want our space to be in the car park. At the beginning of the project I looked at artists such as Cornelia Parker and Ken Unsworth which have heavily inspired me. Their works involve hanging objects such as bricks to create installations which appear to be moving. I decided that I liked the idea of hanging delicate objects in a car park where everything is concrete and unkept as I like the contrast between the two. I built a wooden structure in the studio to hang my experimental piece from, then went shopping to find reflective objects to hang. I found silver diamanté's from hobby craft and decided to use them, I also bought fishing wire and started to hang the pieces.

From making this experimental piece I realised the project would be a lot more time consuming than I first thought as it took two boxes of the diamanté's and a lot of time to make the piece which still doesn't take the form of a cube shape which was what I was trying to achieve. Also the fishing wire kept getting tangled as I kept accidentally walking in to the piece when completing other projects, this is something that concerns me about the car park as pedestrians may tangle my work.

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