Secrets - An Update - Phew… about time.
July 2nd, 2008
Hello Everyone! Sorry for the massive delay on this project. Wow…. almost a month, hard to believe. Many things happened that put it off. The art reason is because I felt the response was so grand that I had to bring something slightly different and special to the end product. I didn’t want to go my traditional route. I ended up making four different projects and trashing all of them before finally setting on the current one. As you can imagine trashing four projects is crushing for many reasons, money spent, time spent, ideas destroyed, etc. But in the end I came up with the right approach.
Secrets can be many things to us. They can be an almost pointless secret, the deepest darkest things from our past, the embarrassing moments we wouldn’t tell a soul, but the one thing that probably holds them all together is how we treat them. We put such power and thought into the idea of the secret that we tend to give it a life of it’s own. I know for me, if I try to keep something secret eventually I lose track of what the secret is and think I’m keeping everything secret and then I have trouble talking about anything. ugh.
I’m not going to talk about the trashed projects because I liked the ideas and I will approach them in the future sometime. But the head of secrets went through so many stages to get the final project. As you can tell it is essentially cut from one piece of paper. I had to first design the cut out which was probably the hardest part of this project. I had to make a small version of it, adjust aspects then make another and I repeated this process many times. (I have little paper heads all over the studio). After many trial heads I came up with the right design and was planning it large scale. I was also planning on putting some shading into the head but in the end decided that would go against the idea of the project.
Bringing the final head together was relatively simple because of all the trial and error I did small scale but taping the two halves together was a total pain. I was hoping that I might be able to prop up the head for pictures but quickly decided it was much better to walk around in it. It was also totally disorientating to be in.
The next project will be viewer involved but I won’t be making it for a while. I just landed a really cool gig that I can’t talk about yet. So I will be working on it for the next month then I will come back to finish out Goodbye Art in a flurry of excitement! I will really put my all into it for the last 5 projects.