As I approach the end of this project I'm making sure I'm taking all aspects into consideration. Right now I'm thinking about how to take my paper and fabric casts to transform into established final pieces.
Once I've cast my paintings round the everyday objects, how will they presented? The layout is important to me. If we weren't living in strange times, I drew up some quick sketches on how I would arrange the pieces in a gallery space.
Firstly, I thought they should sit on their own just like the original objects would. Either in rows, horizontally or vertically. Ideally, I would've liked to present something like this as a final.
However, I began documenting these and I didn't feel they were being done any justice. It did just look like crumpled paper discarded on the floor. Even if it was in white gallery space it would look the same.
Images worth sharing for development but not as a possible final. Since working in series throughout this project, I had plans for more than one series to be showcased. At the end of the day these pieces are still paintings. Just in the expanded form, but from the viewer's perspective I don't feel these translate as expanded paintings.
This lead to the conclusion that these pieces should be wall mounted. If this was going on show publicly, I think the viewers would have better perspective. They can still walk around the object, but get close enough at eye level to actually see it as a painting. Mounting these on the wall reminds us that these are in fact, paintings.
To summarise, I want the viewer to still recognise these as paintings.
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