Monday, June 7, 2010

Moi: The Writing On the Wall

Of all the decisions I made when working on my project, I think writing on the wall was the best.
When I started the installation, I was just going to have a lot of framed pictures and the wall was either going to be painted a color or left blank. While brainstorming for the project, I was using a large piece of paper attached to the wall. In our first critique, someone remarked that they missed my drawings on the wall, and that I should try to incorporate them into my final project. After some thought, I decided to run with it, reducing the number of frames, and buying some wallpaper to draw on.
I decided to write as well as draw on the wallpaper once it was up on the wall, referencing my old diary for ideas. I ended up writing a number of things that sounded like they could have been things I would have written in my diary at the age of 11-13. Actually, a couple of the things I wrote are very similar to actual entries I made. The drawings are mostly based on the things I wrote, but are also stand-alone images.
The end result is a clusterfuck of words with a few drawings, and five frames on the wall to break up the images. I'm very pleased with this decision.

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