super nature

Hi all, had a fantastically inspiring drive home after our last get together, my creative brain went into overload, fueled by the great Asian noodles suggested by Fiona, although not the best thing to eat whilst driving! Any ways after letting my creative thought process go wild, the practical side of me has now started to reign in my ideas to try and decide on one achievable concept, a piece of work that explores our themes of- shared memories, interaction, reflection, illumination and hidden stories - During my process of 'concept elimination' I explored and really thought about the 'core essence' of my own work, and what makes me do what I do.
I'm always tempted to fling myself into the unknown to explore totally new methods of working for new projects, but this time round I feel with our relatively short production time line , I'm going to feel far more confident if I continue to develop some of the ideas and materials I've been working on and in over the past 12 months - I feel the fusion of hand made felt fibre with synthetic resin and perspex have really exciting prospects with beautiful illumination qualities.
A concept I keep being drawn to is the idea of a large scale floor labyrinth, interactive with pressure sensored illumination, hidden secrets, and many paths of life all leading to a central light. Labyrinths them selves are something that every one has some association with, or memory of. For me labyrinths are very representational of life journeys, twists and turns, some shared some alone , some light , some dark.
So thats my ramblings for now - on a practical note, i'm very excited at the challenge of constructing a false / raised floor, that the perspex and felt pieces could be inserted into - DO ABLE, will have to really explore the pressure sensor light technology, and cost of weight baring perspex. Start on Marquette next week
Some great friends of mine in the UK who work together under the name of 'collective nonsense' worked on a project called 'super nature' part of it was to construct a large scale outdoor disco dance floor ' so have emailed for technical info .. check it out visit www.johodges.co.uk and I think its under collaborative projects, shes also got some nice projection installations
x ramble again soon
Wanda