Five days to work with strangers. Create works based upon another person’s practice. Produce a catalogue. Assemble an exhibition by the end of that week. Being thrown into unfamiliar territory forced the team to work within a framework that challenged us to step outside our comfort zones, in a limited amount of time. Our group had an interesting dynamic as everyone was exploring different themes seemingly worlds apart from each other, but by spending time discussing our practice, we were able to find traits or themes that we could explore within this project. Whilst working on our interpretations and concepts of our partner’s work, we discovered that we were all using similar organic materials eg. wood, apple, food. Through discussion and debate we decided that a common structure could link all our projects into a whole -a space for our work to challenge the viewer by having a large physical presence through its display and presentation. This structure not only allows this, but at the same time offers the segregation of each solo piece to be interpreted as individual. There were a lot of challenges and a sense of frustration working within a group, but we all enjoyed the experimental aspect of it. Some of us were trying to create works which could render our understanding both in the practical and theoretical way. It is interesting how interpreting someone else’s practice for a week has opened up our eyes and it would be great to try and bring these new ideas to further our own practice. As a whole, we all agreed that this triangle project was an experiment that pushes us to do things that we would not have done otherwise. The experience has been a rewarding one that has opened doors, not only for our own individual practice but also for future collaborative projects within the groups.
I was lucky to have gotten an excellent partner with a very interesting body of work. When exploring Josh’s work the themes that interested me most were his experimentations with imperfection, coincidence and human interaction. In reponse to his work I allowed paint to flow freely and mix organically down an 8ft by 8ft board as an expression of an undetermined journey. I then placed at random painted apples which represent human role in the journey. I chose the apple as they will change in this piece over time and eventually shrivel up and fall off the board, they have a limited life span and had no choice in the path they were put on. The apples are painted white so they are not initally recognisable as fragile fruit but as objects. As part of the brief it was also necessary for each group to create a run of ten catalogues. Rather than assign this task to one person we created the catalogue as a group and passed a file from person to person. Each person contributed to its production. I enjoyed the project and hope to use what I have learned to inform my own practice.
My Final Piece
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