Further Development of my Final Piece

Coming back to my final piece I decided that it was too serene and calm, I want to create the feeling of anxiety not serenity.

 So I decided that the viewer was too far away from the piece and that the viewer needed to be part of the madness and become en-capsuled in the mess. So I added more strings this time. All of them coming from the chair and out into the room so you sit down and your eyes follow these strings into the piece forcing the viewer to look at what is in front of them.

 I also added strings overhead to really block the viewer into the chair and feel enclosed and trapped in the chair and in the centre of this mess.

I also had to do this to manufacture a way in which the viewer was forced to sit down and view the piece from the perspective it is meant to be viewed from as when showing my piece to peers and teachers a lot of them stood in the doorway and didn't get involved with the piece and sit in the chair to gain the preferred perspective to view the piece.

 I also decided that to dim the light down as that was contributing to the feeling of serenity and calmness so I sewed a blanket out of odd bits of fabric I had leftover from the installations and hung it in front of the bookcase I had brought in earlier this year for a completely different idea that never came about. I upcycled (the art of taking something someone would consider trash and making it into art or something that is usable again) the bookcase as a table for more mess and to further enclose the space and emphasise the feeling of being trapped.

I have also decided to play music in the background and I have chosen a song by Lana Del Rey called 'Is This Happiness' as it has this haunting chorus combined with nothing but a piano. I have decided to play this song on a broken speaker I have that adds crackling to the background as the bass is broken and it gives off this feeling of it being played on a radio with bad reception.

I have decided to do this as it adds another layer of the trapped feeling. I have put a link below to the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyC2N3LbPkE - Is This Happiness by Lana Del Rey