Yasmin's Work

Hey all,

Couldn't believe that I didn't make the meeting yesterday - I was asked to go into work to open up as an emergency (typical) but should be at Mondays meeting!

Anyway - I have decided to create a separate installation for the unit 7 based solely on the theme and on what has been discussed at earlier meetings. I have really ran with the idea of ''great expectations'' and the anti-climatic let down that follows soon after.

Basically what I find interesting is the anticipation that grows out of expectations. How we create and exaggerate scenarios in our minds and then the real experience can come as somewhat of a downer.

So here is the installation idea: - Using the ''domestic'' theme and the quote as a prompt I want to display (identically in both exhibition rooms) a clock on the wall and a small table/cabinet underneath with a box placed on top the table.

As the person walks from one room to the next they will be expecting to see something different, or to understand the context of the clock and table. The audience may even search for it as they enter the second room. The book/box relates to the mouse comment in the theme - the audience has anticipated an interesting outcome, searched for it, only to discover the small, only slightly surprising thing to learn is that there was nothing to expect in the first instance.

The clocks relate to the time we spend thinking of this potentially great outcome and the time we spend actually searching for it and the time we waste further investigating when the outcome isn't as we first imagined. Ie. ''After a long time of waiting''

If I decide to use a book then I would like both books to be different but similar in appearance and generic dull story. So that when the viewer notices the books are not the same they may expect the ''surprise'' or great piece of art to be the book itself or contained within it - the idea being that the let down is the fact that book is equally as dull as the former.

If  I choose to use the box, then both boxes will contain pieces of costume jewellery which will be of no interest to the viewer. Again the idea being that you would open the box expecting something  interesting and getting nothing.

Looking forward to seeing everyone's work once it is installed together!