Graded Unit.Development Work.

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Driven by the sucess of using water with bones and natural items to float I decided to go down a more Ophelia inspired route and use the local river to create movement with a sheet and add flowers and the bones to it as it flowed.

The initial idea didn’t go quite as planned as the flow ws too fast and the bones and flowers floated off of the sheet too fast to capture anything.I then realsied that the idea would of worked better in still water.

The way the sheet rippled and moved in the light i found captivating.It was therapeutic to watch and made me think about giving up to forces we can’t control.The shapes within the sheet moved and changed shape moving in different directions with the flow of the current.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sftv3_z-5FLTcbaw03LSHu_A9Qd4Oj2C

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sOvt0IH7et2q_9vMgczJob1RDL7jRScS

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1s_griFE7fA9CnOl1eibjZUasJSBlbwca

The heavy dust sheet then started to take on a sculptural form within the water,almost body-like in the 2nd photo which was once again fascinating to watch.And once again brought me back to the painting of Ophelia.
Once taken from the water the material took on even more of a scuptural form and i was able to create different shapes with it in the trees.The third photo made me think of a cocoon.I loved the way the light filtered throught the material highlighting the different shapes within it.

I hung the sheet to dry and very quickly realised that it created some really interesting shadows with the light projected onto it.I decided to create some child-like creative shadow figures behind the sheet.Invoking the feeling of child-like playfulness that time spent in nature gives us.

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