Naturally, we were terribly excited and dreamt up ideas involving rolling around in paint and climbing trees.
Jess and I in our overalls
Our actual task was a little disappointing compared to our fantasies, as we were told to 'change the space' of the life room (a room with no natural light where we do life drawing) using only lining paper and masking tape (which later evolved to lining paper, masking tape, duct tape, pins and a staplegun, thank goodness).
You might think that this idea has a lot of potential, and perhaps you're right, but with thirteen students in one room, the illusion of a magnificent installation is soon broken. We started off sitting in a circle coming up with ideas and making a vague plan, but our main course tutor (Tony) told us that we had to get on with doing it because that would work much better yada yada yada. So we all started making walls and attaching strips of paper to the wall and causing chaos with no real idea of what we were aiming for. The result was that we did 'change the space', but I know I wasn't particularly proud of it, and most of the others were going a bit mental after being cooped up in the room for three days.
Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked; here are some 'abstract' pictures of our disappointing masterpiece:
Then, we finally got to wear our decorator's overalls! Alas, there was no rolling around in paint involved. Earlier in the week, we'd been given the task to produce 10 patterns each (also part of some later project that we have yet to discover). We projected these patterns onto the walls of our fabulous creation and took photos of it, then painted the patterns on using black, white and grey paint. Not only was this pretty frustrating (course tutor number 3, Leslie, is a huge nagger and wouldn't stop shouting for at least 4 hours straight), but paint goes through the overalls so they weren't even worth wearing! I've kept mine, I'm sure I'll find something to do with it eventually...
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