The Madness Is Over

Alas, Modular Madness has come to an end, and though I won't be missing gluing plates to a wall anytime soon, it was a little sad to see everyone's work uninstalled so quickly.

Well, on to the crit!

Ambition:
I feel that I took on a fairly ambitious project, both in scale and in the look that I wanted to achieve. The project climbs the entire wall of the alcove, and comes out from the wall a couple of feet in some places. Yeah, that's A LOT of plates!
Also, I wanted to achieve a very organic look, as if the piece was growing on the wall, which can be difficult to achieve with such geometric modules.

Craft:
Unfortunately, craft was where I faltered with this piece. I left about five paperclips still in place by mistake. (They were used to hold the plates while the glue set up.) and I also had chosen staples to attach some of the plates to the wall. While necessary in some areas, as the actual weight the plate was bearing was pretty significant, this could have been better hidden. In other areas, such as single plates being hung, I should have employed something like double-sided tape.

Form:
I think I achieved my desired form very well. I really wanted to capture the essence of something alive and growing to cover the wall, and everyone seemed very aware of this feeling from the piece. I received a lot of comments about the piece looking like a mold or fungus, red blood cells, or even a tumorous growth.

Presentation:
My presentation could've been better, as there were elements of my craft that weren't well thought out.However, the decision to install my piece in the alcove couldn't have worked out better for me. I really loved the uniqueness of the location and the way the set up of the walls allowed me to build the piece in a closed-in corner.

Overall, I feel that this piece had a lot more potential than I ended up portraying, and mostly due to problems with craft. I really think I'd like to experiment with this technique again and work out the small kinks. I'd also like to make the piece larger, to encompass the entire alcove, so that the viewer feels surrounded by this growth.