Once I had the additional blind contours of Borough Market, I put my favorite ones into Illustrator, and I added color based on my memory, to establish a volume between the lines.
The image took this long banner format largely because it was accommodating the largest width that could be printed in the print lab. Ideally, I would like the installation to be a larger scale, however, I thought that my creation would function as a bit of a prototype.
Once I printed out the large role, I quite liked the single paper composition, but I the images would take on a different life if they were cut up and suspended from the ceiling. I realized that these cutouts gave me a lot of different moving pieces, which I could stitch together in different ways. However for now, I would actualize the installation that I sought out to make.
I installed the pieces in my base room, and this time, I had varied the scale of the different pieces much much more than I did in the first component of the installation, which made the pieces even more unpredictable. I chose to install over my desk for two reasons: 1) the first part of the installation was already there as a foundation, and I was building upon it, and 2) I wanted to create somewhat of a visual think space–a special world for me to work by transporting the piece into the RCA.
I also had to create a little but of a skeleton for some of the pieces, as they flopped and curled over each other. It created an interesting effect, but it was not the effect that I had intentioned. Too, the ability to navigate this space drew attention to the sided-ness of the hanging elements. The paper was only one-sided, and the cardboard and sticks attached to the back were aesthetically unappealing when a viewer walked around the space.
Overall, I was happy with the way that the installation panned out, but it was very much a start. I know I am interested in this idea of translating spaces and bringing them into a new context–using illustration as installation. However, this was largely sight specific in the location that it drew from opposed to the the location it was being projected on to. It happened to work in my base room, but in my original installation I did not consider the places that it could go and how to make it more durable for that.
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