INSTALLATION ART
For this project, we were assigned to a team of a total of seven students. We were given all creative liberty. We could choose any medium we wanted. It could have any message or be about any topic we agreed on. The only requirement was that it had to be an installation piece displayed for either our school community or greater community. And at first, having this much freedom was actually a bit more straining than one would think. My group was undecided with what we wanted to create. There were too many options and ideas, it was so difficult to narrow them down.
We were encouraged by our teacher to try to do a piece on something we were passionate in getting people aware of. My team finally decided that we wanted to do something regarding environmental issues, specifically oil pollution. Our initial ideas for the product, was that we wanted it to be something where we could experiment with acrylic paint, something very tangible that we could build, and lastly we wanted the viewer to be able to interact with it. We wanted it to affect them on a much deeper level, that involved more senses than just feel and sight.
As a group, we realized that a lot of people in our community, especially teens, did not know much about oil pollution or how it affects their life. Some adults didn't even know what oil barrels actually looked like. So as a team we decided to create a fountain made out of oil barrels and paint a scene of marine life on them. Originally we thought we would make it so it looked like it was oil was spilling into a perfectly thriving ocean life, however we changed our minds because we didn't want to dye the water black. Instead we wanted to bring up the question, "Why is perfectly clean water pouring out of barrels that should be oil." We thought that having this feature seem out of place might cause the viewer to think a little deeper of the symbolism and message behind it.
Now it remains exhibited in our school's lobby, and cycles water all day for viewers and passing students to hear it's rhythmic gushing water, and admire it's rough industrial texture.
We were encouraged by our teacher to try to do a piece on something we were passionate in getting people aware of. My team finally decided that we wanted to do something regarding environmental issues, specifically oil pollution. Our initial ideas for the product, was that we wanted it to be something where we could experiment with acrylic paint, something very tangible that we could build, and lastly we wanted the viewer to be able to interact with it. We wanted it to affect them on a much deeper level, that involved more senses than just feel and sight.
As a group, we realized that a lot of people in our community, especially teens, did not know much about oil pollution or how it affects their life. Some adults didn't even know what oil barrels actually looked like. So as a team we decided to create a fountain made out of oil barrels and paint a scene of marine life on them. Originally we thought we would make it so it looked like it was oil was spilling into a perfectly thriving ocean life, however we changed our minds because we didn't want to dye the water black. Instead we wanted to bring up the question, "Why is perfectly clean water pouring out of barrels that should be oil." We thought that having this feature seem out of place might cause the viewer to think a little deeper of the symbolism and message behind it.
Now it remains exhibited in our school's lobby, and cycles water all day for viewers and passing students to hear it's rhythmic gushing water, and admire it's rough industrial texture.