constructing the city, i lay comics underneath as the grounds using different colours for a river and a park and black and white for streets and added the boxes glueing them to look like a city. made from household cartons i didn't paint them because i wanted to use the colours, some are made using box nets and templates,

now its just finishing it

i want my box to have a bookshelf just like the ones from the architecture exhibition at the V&A i also think it will help with giving a better perspective on size

first i painted the inside on the lid different colours as my bookshelf after i had made in three shelve pieces to hold up the books.

because it's on a canvas i can't place in real size books so i want to make an optical illusion that makes you think its a full sized shelf. so the idea is to saw off the spines of books i no longer want and glue them on the shelf.

sawed approximately 80 books and it has taken forever but the shelf afterwards was better than i could have expected and really colourful just like i wanted. it looks like a real shelf from a distance.

painting

today was a long day watching paint dry.

once the fundemental basix construction for the box was done now i could paint it and so i have painted it white, two coats inside and out

in my sketchbook i did some building drawings out of household cartoons, comics and cereal boxes and i want to continue these materials into my box, i also think that would intergrate the idea of childplay just like there was in the beige box building from the architecture exhibition in the V&A in one of my previous posts.

time management right now is ok but i need to get a move on with actual inside of box because that is what is of importance to the project.

the construction of the box took me two days and in the mean time i was able to establish my ideas on a better scale.

for me london was once just a city became an exhibtition hosting all these diverse installations and being in the city surrounded by hussle and bussle instead of the intimidating silence of a gallery allows the audience to see the works in a more relaxed enviroment.

but for me london had also developed even further to become art itself, a permenant city that can make or brake an artist who installs their work. i have come to see london as the artwork, a raw canvas that is tempermental and such a great force that we should appreciate more.

to be honest, that is what it is: i have come to appreciate london on such a greater scale that it seems silly to ignore its superiority and majesty.

thus i come to my point, that i want to recreate a model city that can demonstrate itself as art and not just as its primary function. of course on a smaller scale.

starting the box

these photos are of the outside of the white cube exhibition, looking at the idea of a building so basic and simple to have hidden treasures in it. ideas for box

i started work on the box today, i found two hardback canvases i had made years ago, which were identical in size and use them as my template for the size of the box, they have a border but its not thick enough for what will go inside the box. so i have to get constructing and build a frame which i made to just over 10cm wide to go between the canvas sheets and create a rectangular box.

almost there

been doing some architecturl based drawing, the idea came from the spaces i looked at. i want to take it a step further to architure models, which i think is something i want to use in my final project. a miniature city.

went to the Gormley exhibition at the white cube, it was only two rooms but his darkroom piece was very inspiring and i'm think i might want to make a box as well though not quite like that.

these are phots from the other room which i apperently also wasn't allowed to take.

we weren't allowed to take photos but it was a dark room filled with a massive outline of a box, several boxes interlinking that glowed.

also went tohe V&A museum to see their latest exhibition called:

1:1 Architects build small spaces,

basically it is an architecture exhibition designed to give the viewer a more personal experience, instead of blueprints and building photos there were mini buildings in the museum that you could go into and explore. my favourite was a beige cube where yiu could go inside and climb stairs, it felt like a treehouse for adults.

there was also another piece that inspired me very much, which is a building made out of bookshelves or so it would seem. adding the books in there really give the piece colour but also a size perspective as to how small one building inside another building is.

but so far i think besides the elephant parade this has been the most useful exhibition and i want my final project to take on something like a box that can be filled like these buildings have been and in an architectural way emphasize from previous research the idea of how spaces are used.

did some elephant drawings earlier from the parade in my new bigger sketchbook. drawing them amongst city scapes helps me to visualise the surroundings and i can experiment with the spaces. of course these are just sketches i really need to find a centrepiece that i can focus on. and continue architectural surroundings research. look at architeture models.
need to use the elelphants or continue and progress into something bigger.

maybe i should just use the idea of art in space.

London is one great big space for art. it is one great big exhibition waiting to be explored.