Light bulb moment

After speaking with Nicky to get some ideas and review where I am at with my project, she mentioned an idea of playing around with scale again, like I have on one of my previous projects. I then started to think how it might look to create some of my sweets on a large scale, having a giant strawberry lace twisting around the room or a big bag of skittles bursting open. I can feel my project starting to take shape. This idea still connects back to some of my initial idea's and inspiration from childhood memories and films.

Liverpool

We went to liverpool to visit a few galleries and get some first hand inspiration. on the way to the tate gallery I found this in a sweet shop window and I really loved this idea of creating a picture out of objects/sweets ect. I think the images and inspiration I found on the way to the tate was more interesting then what was inside!

Primary research and inspiration.

As I mentioned I went to visit flambards walk-through Victorian museum and took lots of pictures of their sweet shop, it was really good. It links really well to the area my project is going in because as well as recreating a visual room they had created an atmosphere by adding sounds, lighting and smells throughout to make you really believe you were entering an old fashioned building.

Peer review

I got my class to help me review my project by far, asking their opinions as to which direction they would take the project in, where my strengths and weaknesses are so far and how I can continue to improve. The feedback I got was helpful. one suggestion was that I should create dark opaque jars to put objects in for people to smell and then guess what the smell is. This would be very interactive art and not really what i am used to, but it does link well to the idea that our senses are linked to memories.

Making sweets out of latex, pva glue, paint and modrock!

My practical experiments are starting to take off, I've started to use different materials to recreate sweets that look tasty and edible, playing with the idea of senses. The objects should look real but have no smell no taste but trigger the mind to want them. I really love where this project is going.

chupa chups painting

using acrylic paint on a canvas, i tried to do quite a realistic painting but i didnt like the actual canvas, it looked much better after i had taken a picture of it so i plan to print this photograph on a large scale and have it as the background to my ediable room!