Mode of practice –

I was thinking about how making a piece of art is a process, which takes time and all comes together in the end to create something that reflects someone’s imagination along with their style. Whether that’s in the form of a painting, sculpture or mixed media, it always has that process.

I think it would be interesting to use actual living things on paper and watch them develop, whether you watch it decay or grow, for example if you were to have flowers stuck onto a piece of paper or canvas, you would see it day by day fall apart, get mouldy and eventually die and at that point the work would be done. Same goes for food, if you were to put a banana or orange skin onto a piece of paper it would do the same, as well as seeing them decay you would also be able to smell it.

With the growing aspect of it, rather than using paper an idea would be to put seeds and soil into a relatively small glass or plastic container and see them grow in a confined space and see how long it takes for the growth and decaying process to take place. With a lot of art if it’s not appealing to the eye, people normally have a very opposite opinion to it compared to how they’d perceive something that was nothing out of the ordinary. I think it’s really important to admire work that makes you uncomfortable and squeamish as well as pieces that make you happy, because it shows versatility in the different ways art can make you feel.