So I’m feeling quite humble about this I have been in consultation with my head lecturer a few times, over the phone about exhibition ideas. Attending the University I have discovered that she has discussed with the other teaching staff that that they have allocated The taem gallery space for my work with three other students in the year. This really came as a shock, because of the space, the about the gallery being one of the more professional areas in the building and in addition to that being allowed to carry out one of my proposal ideas which I thought would never come to fruition due to rules.
I brought down some ice blocks to see how long they talked to melt, unfortunately the two hour drive a lot of them had melted in the car. With the air conditioning in the building that did slow them down a bit, and I think that the bigger ice blocks will be much thicker so they will melt slower.
Linked straws inside 
I have decided to move a series of sculptures like the images I have already taken and or from my statements in my artists statement. E.g. bound, melded and linked. The pink shiny thing was a balloon I found and so filled it with Li led straws. Froze that and then stripped away the balloon putting it in one of the draws to make a larger cube.
Printing
The images have been printed and now I have to make a decision on the composition in the room. I have lost sleep over making this choice, after thousands of photos finally picking two was very difficult some of the reasons when into the final shape, the position of the way the photo was taken, the light, frame and composition opposite the (hopefully) beautiful blocks of ice.
this image was printed twice because of the border, and only had a 1 mil border so Tom decided to print it again, the images so striking putting them together I feel like it looks like the world, the oceans and the land scapes with this black tick on the top. I asked a couple of students their opinion and I had some interesting remarks. Such as cell like, embryonic, and Ying yang. I just find it really interesting that the dummies are green so much life to the image and they have so much meaning, because of the first thing that a baby puts into its mouth apart from a mother’s breast is a piece of plastic.
So the two final images are chosen because of their shape one is the straws which will Echo the sculpture because the sculpture being the same. I will have straws if I can gather enough of the dummies back together out of a lot of the other ice blocks that I’ve done. I could probably make that also, as I have one of the ice blocks cooking at the moment waiting for something to be put in.
Things still to be considered how am I going to hang them parallel with each other, landscape, or horizontal. the straws is not my strongest or favourite image however it really does well with the dummies.
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