The final run before midterms has gotten to be a bit hectic, especially because I have decided to put my initial project idea on the back burner and take my collection project to a different place. This past week, for Reagan's class and the master's project, I have been drawing in the academia. Instead of the David, however, I have been drawing the classical, marble nude statues by artist Lorenzo Bartolini (of the typical "venus, nymphs, idealized woman" variety.)
Anyhow, in complete contrast to the idea of last week, I have decided to focus on women as my collection, particularily the underapprecited nude statues in the academida. Each time I've gone into the academia to draw, I have found that there has been a huge crowd (surprisingly) around the David and then a small just a small trickle of people who manage to filter through the statue room. Though I didn't really mind not having to deal with the crowd, I still felt that the girls were being overworked and underappreciated
So I decided to give them some freedom and take them out into the world.
Enter: my project
I have decided to take three of the drawings I have made of the figures and blow them out to be life size. After mounting them on carboard I am going to take the trio out and about around town and let them have some fun-- and a drink.
In the end, it's kind of a full 360 from my first project, where I took a 3 dimensional space (the giardino) and presented it in my own 2 dimensional, objective view (postcard... see first project is desired.)
Here, I have taken my 2 dimensional obective view (of the ladies as lifesize paper dolls) and created a 3 dimensional space (the installation) for them to be in.
Though I haven't decided on the final installation destination, I have a few cool, chic places in mind...
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