Bruce Nauman

Think about how to make an artistic proposal? A written script? An Image? A piece of text or instructions? Photoshop? A conversation?

Everything In It's Right Place...

Ideas and queries...

I never seem to finish a project so I have gone into this very open brief with the idea of actually finishing something. I need to keep asking myself Why? Why? Why? and Where? Where? Where?

I tend to make things with no idea what they will develop into. This way of working I enjoy, but I need a certain certainty as to why I am making.

Its all very well loading images of experiments onto the blog but I need proposals of where this 'work' should be.

What did I like about these hoops? What do I want to come from it? - Atmosphere? Blackness all around and then this random pattern of colour, Spontaneous? Up above (like the jelly fish), normally on a wrist, is it just to be looked at? Smaller space or vastness? Come across it (this would link in), In an alley - or in your face? Reflection?

How to present for exhibition? - Night and day? Pics on board - paper on wall - proposal underneath?

The earliest stages...

The next steps...

What I'm looking at now...

Gift in Lift

I left a nice arrangement of flowers in the lift, then waved goodbye to them. I wonder if they will still be there tonight...

Bringing Love to my Lift

Bunch of Flowers

Rose Petals

Chocolates

Romance Novels

Incense sticks

Candles

Massage Oils

Strawberrys and Cream

My Rose petals have been cleared away but the Lavender smell still remains.

Love in an Elevator.

I want to slowly transform a small space. Something that people use everyday. A place where you spend time in but you never look at. After watching the documentary 'lift' I want to do something to the lift in my block of flats over a period of a week. I want a space that people normally ignore to become a talking point? I think the changes will start off subtle and then get a bit more romantic...

21/02/2010 - A week after Valentines -Whenever I walk into the lift in my flat block it always smells of something different. Garlic, bacon and vinegar are just some of the obtrusive smells that have filled that little space. I sprinkled lavender oil into the carpet. The lift smells so much better.

22/02/2010 - The carpet is a bit dull. I scattered rose petals on it. I guess I'm starting from the floor and working my way up. I bet the cleaner will sweep them away.

Lift

Thankyou James. Just got shown a really good documentary called 'Lift'. Have a look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJNAvyLCTik

Little Secrets.

Singing in my hairbrush to Beyonce. Really giving it my all. Might even do a little dance move or two. Someone walks in. Embarrassment. Awkward. Funny. Ehhhhhhh? Walking in on moment, or never knowing it happened at all?