Just a few finished pieces from my first year at Uni

Below, I created this character using oil paints. Im looking at the fantasy world. Good and bad. It has religious conotations in. It uses symbology and refereces to the Religious stories. For example and snake being eaten by the peacock. The tree in the background, the fruit on the table. The winged creature. The peacock head sybolising many things also but represent luck in many cultures, grace etc. so it is a miz between belief, good, evil, religion etc.

Below are characters i also created for the narrative. I followed on from my sculpture rotation of the chair legs falling, bundled together. Ripped away from the chairs.

Below, is another wounded chair leg. Quite figurative!

This is where my inspiration came from for the paintings. These are chaor legs and copies of chair legs with wax and a rubber moulding material. I was experimenting with materials and looked at making lace as a starter idea. I did it on a grander scale and wanted the piece to travel by knotting all the strings together.

Below is an installation from an encounter ( can see on previous blog). It was holes in a dark hideout - that you could look through, if you wanted to. The holes didnt look like it was part of the work even though it was. So some people may not have found out about the holes. Some people may have discovered them. I like this idea of discovery. Finding something out. The hole acts as a trace, behind the hole is the work. But the hole is also the work.

Below is another installation i had done about 'escaping'. We went camping away from any social commitment, away from society. When we came back, we wanted to create this space so we can escape to it when we wanted to and allow others to discover it. This also comes under our 'encounterism' manifesto. It was in a cuboard so was hard to find. We left envelopes around with directions to get there and that i guess was the trace for it. It had sound, smell, a very small torch ligh, dark, confined space. We wanted it dark to allow the viewer to use their imaginations. We also left our diaries in the space and what we drank and ate.

Below are the dolls I made and left them around for people to find. There were 10 of each. A little me and a little friend for me.I wanted people to discover them.

Below, is the work all together for assessment. I have written about this on a previous blog named 'Reflecting back on the lost works'. It is displaying all the encounterisms we had done in that term.