My installation is complete. Today I finished the final touches of positioning my boxes and adding fablon to any of the patchwork squares that I felt were looking bare. I have mixed emotions about finishing this piece of work as this is my last piece of work being a student as CSAD. I am very pleased with how the installation looks, it shows the strong relationship certain colours have together and how colours can play tricks on peoples vision. The installation is also overpowering and intense, it also creates a feeling of uncomfortableness if you look at it for long, due to the intrusive colour and patterns that have been used. I definitely feel that a viewer would look at the boxes and the surrounding patchwork and make connections to repeated patterns and use of colours that I have chosen. Even thought there were elements to the piece that I have changed through set up, I don’t feel that the installation is missing anything. The ceiling or curtain was never something I felt I really needed as my intentions were never meant to make a ‘room’ shaped installation as light and colour are the many priorities of this installation.
After being in my space I have heard many responses to my work that have interested me. Many being about the brightness of the piece and how they could see the colour reflecting from down the corridor of the studio. This wouldn’t have happened if I had closed off the installation with a curtain so I am happy that I decided against that. Another comment I had that interested me was ‘So the boxes are falling from the patchwork’ I had never thought of my work this way. The boxes were made to show a 3D version of some of the shapes reflected in the patchwork, but never had I thought about looking at it as if there are objects visually coming from the wall.