Second Year: First Project. Zabriskie Point Stage 4, Making The Final Piece

So here it is, the final piece of work for this project. The piece has been constructed in wire mesh and is just under 2 metres tall and about a metre and a half in width. As you can see from these pictures documenting the development of the making process, the piece is in the process of being covered in mirror, being attached via a glue gun to the mesh structure. This sculpture has taken over 3 weeks to create the wire framewaork and over 2 weeks to mosaic with mirror and is still to this date not fully completed. Unfortunately, due to the lack of funds and time, the piece will regrettably not be fully finished for the exhibition of this project and will have to be completed at a later date to be entered for outside exhibitions and competitions.

The piece has cost over £120 pounds to make so far and i believe it will take a further £100 pounds to make the piece fully complete and the full completion should be done by the end of january 2010.

Though the piece will be shown within the University exhibition of this project only 3/4's complete, i think the piece is strong enough to still have the impact that was originally intended. I am disappointed it wasn't completed for this show but it is due to external factors beyond my control.

The project has reached it's end and the only thing left is to post pictures of the piece as presented in the Univeristy exhibition and then in the new year, present the piece again once it has been fully completed. I have learnt a great deal from this project and have discovered a strong bond with the process of making work, particularly 3D works. There are elements and aspects from this project that i would like to take forward into my next project after christmas and push not only myself as an artist but also push the boundaries of materials, concepts and what a piece of contemporary art can be.