Now I've completed the three sculptures I can't help but feel that something is missing. As beautiful as they are, am I getting too attached to the fact that I want to make them appealing and in the process loosing the meaning of why I'm producing these in the first place? I want to show death in a new light to get the viewer to accept their own mortality, but do these plain sculptures really radiate that emotion and feeling I want to get across? So to make sure I was getting across my initial intention: of death I took a step back and spoke with my tutors, after talking it was decided to put these sculptures through the process of death. For example through suicide, murder, accidental and natural causes and show this through the flowers; using them as a metaphor to human life; making it easier for the viewer to contemplate.
Next steps:
- produce some maquettes
- test some killing methods of the small versions
- what ever works best- do on the large scale pieces.