Not Quite

During our sessions in the lighting workshop we have tried lots of different layouts for displaying our sculptures. Ruth and I have decided to ignore the beatle sculpture because he is too delicate and heavy to move to the exhibition site, but keep the 4 other sculptures.

The best layout that we have found is to have all 4 sculptures in a circle facing each other, leaving the viewer feeling as if they are left out as they appear to be plotting against us. This sinister feel fits nicely into the overall theme of the piece. We want the whole thing to be ambiguous as to whether they lay in the realms of reality or still in a dream-like state.

We have decided that to have the wires and bulbs showing seems to add something to the piece, it adds to the rawness and ambiguous nature of the piece. Now our issue is to find out once we get to the site whether we need just one central bulb, or to have 4 bulbs for each sculpture, we will asses this when we see how the lighting is in the space.

The title has been something that we have been thinking about for some time, but everytime we try to tell anybody about our piece we always say the phrase "Not Quite", for example: "well they're not quite smooth because we want them to seem raw and like they're not quite real" so we have pretty much come to the decision that "Not Quite" is the title.

Currently we are building wooden stretchers for transporting each creature to and from the exhibition space and working on how to wrap them in the most secure way.