Nothing Lasts Forever

To link back to the installations I decided to include the plaster casts that I made in the final piece. I drew some sketches of what I would like the installation to look like.

                  

One thing that the casts reminded me of was gravestones. Not just any gravestones but war gravestones. The whiteness and uniformity of them. This is why I thought it would be a good idea to place the casts like that. The burned matchsticks could perhaps represent the dead or fallen.

However, that casts didn't exactly have straight edges so they wouldn't stand up on their own. Plus, they were all different sizes. The solution was to stick them onto something that was sturdy and that would stand up, like wood. So I made a model of what it would look like:

The white background made the pictures of the plaster casts stand out and look a bit more realistic. Also, white is a better colour to projects on. Painting it or making it a different colour would distract from the projection or colours could clash.This was done by printing out pictures of the casts and the sticking them onto some cardboard. Once I placed them onto the cardboard I cut out pieces of white paper and stuck it onto the cardboard. This was easier than painting it as it took much less time.

 

 

To see how it would look a video of a matchstick burning was projected onto the model:

It turned out how I wanted it to so I went ahead and stuck the casts of the wood and pasted some white paper to create the background. 

The Installation turned put like this:

There are some improvements to be made. For example a good idea would be to fill the whole thing with plaster so its one large cast. The burned matches are hardly visible so more of them are needed. 

Another factor to consider is size. The works of Bill Viola and Tony Oursler are much larger; this is because they had more money and more materials. My installation isn’t really big but it has the same effect. The walls of the model are intended to look like the walls of a mausoleum. When videoed it can look quite large.