Artist in Residence Initial Blog Post

 I really like the inclusion of mythology in this project. In particular, I am interested in Greek stories/myths because I have previous experience of learning about Greek mythology in middle school. In the group project, we created a sort of transportation system to the underworld so I want to build of this idea and be able to incorporate my own style on my project.
I found this piece of Luke's work particularly interesting because it empathized geometric shapes and lines. Because I have worked a lot with geometric shapes and drawings in the past, this piece combined my past work with the new concept of nature in this project. In this project, I hope to do something similar where I maintain my identity by creating something geometric or clean but also incorporating the natural and mythological aspects.
I found pieces by Goldsworthy and Olafur Eliasson to be the most inspiring and connecting to my ideas. I really like how Eliasson used shapes and color to create his hallway/room. I can relate to his process because of my last project where I, not on as big of a scale, used color gradient and overlapping lines to create a landscape scene. I also liked Goldsworthy work, partly because of the name, but also because he incorporated nature (twigs) into his piece and used these straight objects to create a circular image in the middle of the page.
In this project, I hope to use both Goldsworthy and Eliasson's techniques to create my piece. I want to incorporate nature as much as I can but also maintain the style I have used in the past of geometric shapes. Also, keeping in mind the mythology theme, I found both these creations to remind me of portals or a doorway. Janus, the god of doorway, can represent two different doorway that either look in separate directions or into the past and future. I want to create two doorways or portals using a similar technique to Goldsworthy while also incorporating color like Eliasson. I'm not sure on what the doors will represent yet, but I have a vision that the colors will reflex whatever the door represents. To create this project, I am going to need to find twigs or other objects to create the doorway. This also employs the concept of destruction/reconstruction. My vision is to create these pieces first, using the twigs or sticks, then painting them to represent either the past or future or whatever I decide them to be.
I am a little concerned with construction of the doorways because I am not the best in creating sculptures so I might need help or guidance when once I have my materials and I start to put everything together.