Project Proposal

 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16yqwfy7h4gAl9Oc2SRgBwmephXEPyvKF1Wa3UTs4avY/edit?slide=id.g3dbd59b53f3_0_0#slide=id.g3dbd59b53f3_0_0

Currently, I'm certain my project will take place in nature and make that choice the primary impetus behind what I will try to say with my piece. I've narrowed it down to two locations (the woods below Trevor and the Lawe footbridge underpass), both of which have their own pros and cons and would require very different kinds of work in physical and spatial terms, albeit ultimately both would be similar thematically. For the material behind these proposed works, I want to combine natural (see slide one) and very unnatural materials (see slide two). I also want these two aspects to come together harmoniously in order to frame the space (for example, combining the ideas of Cornelia Konrads’s Passage with the Walmart picture frames). I will also be taking a more is less approach here; an important part of my ethos here is to make the work blend the natural with the work of art, and I think any heavy-handedness would shatter that tenuous project. What I will ultimately be trying to say with this work is something about curiosity, attention, and deep looking. I want to create a subtle and lasting piece that brings the rewards of whimsy and discovery to the discerning passerby, a work that very subtly transfigures nature into art in order to create an engagement with the viewer that brings them not just into the work, but primarily back into an engagement with nature. Thus, just like the Passage and the frames, it will create a gateway back into moments in nature that are so often ignored.