New brief, new opportunities

Since the completion and hand in of the last brief we have now moved onto a new brief which asked us to produce a creative response to the new Alloa Campus. Working outwith the boundaries of our own creative industry building and working within an area of unfamiliar suurounding, i find very interesting.  Since the issue of the brief we have visited the new Alloa campus in order to get a feel for the building, to allow for photo documentation of the building but to also spark some inspiration.

What struck me most about the the campus was the inerior of the building and the clinical feel that is vibrant throughout. On my initial entrance to the campus I was drawn to the geometric shapes that appear to be the focal point of the builidng. This led me on to consider working with the interiors of the campus. The campus is very much contemporary; from the materials used for the interiors to the use of computeres in relation to books distributed with the campus library. My first thoughts were to create a series of prints incorporating binary and and words to represent the concept: Education, lost in translation.

Finally, my current thoughts are leading me towards the theme of translation and how through different langauges we interprate a different meaning. I intend to create an artwork which represents how we learn now, in the past and in the years to come but allows the viewer to interact with the peice. These are just initial ideas and are open to futher development and interpretation.


Intended Processes:
Printmaking
Paper making
Artist book