Secrets - An Update - Phew… about time.
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.
I just landed a really cool gig that I can’t talk about yet.
(Update: 7-21 I’m done with Goodbye Art)
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July 2nd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Your Alive!!
grats on your new gig, and love the head of secrets. can’t wait to see your next projects.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:37 pm
FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i’ve been waiting soo long! great job on the project, it turned out fantastic. one question though, you said that you would make the secrets ‘disappear’, and now you are just passing them on to someone else…. i don’t understand..
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Amazing project as always. I was bumped when I missed the video and the deadline for submiting secrets because I had no internet for a week
I hope I can be a part of a project of yours in the near future!
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Oh man.
Amazing.
And to think that several of my secrets are located somewhere on that head…
A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Interesting how one of the secrets you read was almost the same as my own, but with the genders reversed.
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:02 pm
That, I think, was totally amazing. I love what you did with all the secrets. You are so inspiring to everyone. Keep it up Phil!
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I am so glad you didn’t fall off the face of the earth, I think we were all wondering what happened. But I am glad to hear you got a secret gig…….Hope it goes well =)
Love the secret head!!! I can’t wait to see the next project, but I don’t know if I have the patience to wait another month..haha..guess its good practice =)
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:34 am
Aww, I loved it!
I’m buying it once my damn PayPal starts cooperating. Grrr.
Haha, & that was quite a stumble you took at the end, there!
Congrats on the gig, Phil! Best of luck & I can’t wait to see your upcoming projects.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 am
YAY I’m so happy you finished it! I love the head of secrets idea. Congrats on the new gig and I can’t wait for more amazing work!!!
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I just saw the video of the project and loved it!
I was both shocked and liberated to hear one of the secrets I submitted read aloud. Out of the thousands you recieved, I never thought mine would have been chosen, but it was a very gratifying feeling to get it out, in a matter of speaking. It feels like I have totally let it off my shoulders, but still nobody knows.
Thank you, Phil!
July 4th, 2008 at 3:32 am
You genius.
I need one of those miniature paper heads around your studio.
O_o;
July 4th, 2008 at 6:24 am
That was wonderful! Nice to hear from you again.
The head being disorientating was ironic considering that its a head made of thousands of secrets. Ipso facto, let too many secrets weigh on you and you are lost.
Well good luck on your future projects.
July 4th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Hey Phil!
Glad you stuck with the project and worked it out. It’s kind of reassuring to know that even artists like you get stuck sometimes too
Keep up the great work, and thanks for keeping my secret
July 5th, 2008 at 10:40 am
love your work
you are truly amazing
July 8th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I spent like and hour trying to think of a secret but I never did, I wonder if I even have any. Nice work, it took me two watches to understand exactly what you did.
July 11th, 2008 at 12:08 am
I agree with Myona. Sell me one or two of those mini heads. Please Phil, sir. Do, sir.
Interesting that you had a struggle there.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Saw your work at the isle of Sifnos last week. And I was amazed. You have made some really nice tihings.
Do you sell out?
Kit from Denmark