time to start making

I know where I want to have my pieces installed and I know how I want to transform the spaces with the faces I want to make. I know the kind of map I want and what I want it to look like. I know how I want my gallery space to look also. Now that I know everything that I want to do, it's time to start making.


What I Did:

3 hours planning out last site
15 hours revising map/card, getting information on printing
3 hour trying to get permission for various sites
2 hours measuring sites to know how big to draw the faces

the front cover

inside

back cover

What I Encountered/Discovered:

Things are going well, but I am realizing it's crunch time and I am going to have to kick it into high gear if I want to get everything done. But that's okay, because I work better under pressure. It was nice to get feedback from Stephanie and Juliet about the faces in my sites. I think there are a lot of valuable ideas that I can use to tweak faces, but I am not doing anything too drastically different from what I have planned.

I was very upset to hear back from the community center manager that I could not use the gate in East Quad, because I was not a resident there. They seemed up for it at first, but regulations say because I am not a resident, I can't do it. I think that's kind of bullshit, because what I would be doing wouldn't affect anybody or anything and East Quad is usually an artsy place. I wish I would have just done it without permission... but now they have my information. It makes me wonder if I should try to get permission for any of my projects...? I got permission for the one on the exterior wall of my studio, however.

Hannah gave me some good advice for my map and for my gallery space. Incorporating one of my faces onto the wall of the gallery and possibly interacting with the pictures is something (for some reason) I had not thought of before. I always figured the only option I had to putting a face in the gallery was to bring a structure in to transform. I went to Mark about this new idea, though, and he said it would be fine. After all, this project has brought up extreme emotions for me, and I will definitely remember the stress it brought upon me. So a huge stressed out face could be a perfect addition to my project.

As for the map, I had previously thought that I wanted an 8.5"x5.5" postcard, because I wanted it to be more intimate than a big fold-out map. I designed the postcard to what I thought had been personalized to my project, but it still seemed a little generic. The idea was presented that I incorporate one of my faces into the map, and to possibly make it more like a folded card, with the front having a face so that people want to take it, but the interior being the map and the important information. This makes it more intimate yet, and I like this idea.

I really like how the map/card will work how I designed it. The front will be the top of the face. The card will then open like the mouth is opening to reveal the inside, which has the sides of the lips going down the side. Then the back cover is the lower lips.  I like how the face looks right now, but I am wondering if I need to make it look more hand-drawn. I could add some more detail in Illustrator, or I could just draw it and scan it in, but I am not sure if it is necessary for the face on the card to look exactly like all my pieces.

What I Will Do Next:

I am going to Ikea this weekend to get frames for the 7 photos, and I need to start making the faces as soon as possible. I need to test them out to see if they look exactly as I want them to. I am also going to Kinkos and calling Vistaprint to ask specific questions about the printing of the card/map.