Space: Playing with scale

Today we were looking at space, how people occupy space, and how artists create the feeling of space, or lack of it, in their work. My favourite piece I looked at was by Joel Shapiro, and it was a cast iron chair, all alone in a large room. It started me thinking about scale, and how people perceive it. A chair is something that is supposed to be a certain size, supposed to be big enough for a person to sit on, so this very small chair, that would fit in your hand, is very strange to look at, and might make people viewing it feel uneasy and confused about what to do. I wanted to use this idea of making something that is usually big, very small. I thought of different ways of doing this and I liked the idea of making whatever I decided to make out of a different material to what it usually is (Shapiro's chair is made of cast iron) after brainstorming as a group, I decided to make a cityscape, scaled down very small, and I decided to do this out of paper.

I decorated the buildings with fineliner pen to give them windows, and I liked the contrast this had with the bright white paper. I think the black and white buildings worked well on brightly coloured background as this added to the feeling that this shouldn't be there. I tried to find locations that were easily identifiable in terms of scale, to show how small the buildings are.

I arranged the pine cones to show the scale of the buildings, but also so the buildings were tucked away, in a corner, so people passing by wouldn't notice they were there.

I really like this photo because a wasp came and landed on it, but unfortunately, it's a little bit blurred because i moved slightly, but the wasp flew away so i couldn't retake the photo

These photos also have the wasp in, but not as visible as the first one.

This photo is very clear but unfortunately the wasp is not in it.

I then put it on a leaf I found, as I like all the colours of the leaf, contrasting with the stark monochrome of the buildings.

I will take more photos of the buildings in different locations in the next few days to see which background I think looks best.