My miniature:
- Continues to play off the idea of a conflation/confusion between the macro and the micro
- A cast taken from the surface of a rock and then painted to appear as a large-scale landscape – playing off the idea of the mapping I’ve done before and the macro drawings – a fictionalising of the surface, encouraging deeper exploration, the idea of a whole world in the palm of your hand
- Idea of bringing large ideas down to a small/personal scale – link to katie paterson‘s scaling of cosmic ideas to human scales/everyday objects
- Difficult on a practical level to make it look like mountains – the texture of the paint is a little off, making it too smooth, and I have a tendency to want to blur colours, making an idealised 3d map form – especially as it isn’t based off any one particular place so I am working from my imagination mostly which isn’t my strong point (but does feed into the fictionalising, and I found myself making/imagining little valleys, streams and clumps of woodland as I went along)
- At some points I was using imagery of dartmoor (esp the tors, where the rocks crags poke through the greenery of the moorland) as inspiration – although maybe the end result maybe leaned more towards a stereotypical mountain range I do find dartmoor an interesting source of inspiration ever since reading about the abandoned Neolithic settlements there – adds another layer of history and intrigue, but coupled with the sense of unknown and abandoned
- It was also inspired by one side of my medal – I’m not sure if the lack of colour on that maybe made the confusion in scale more successful/just produced a better end result?
- There’s maybe something that feels a little forced about painting it in? I quite like the minimalism of the contours standing alone, suggesting a landscape without spelling it out – something to try out in the future
My miniature is a plaster cast of a stone’s surface, painted to evoke the impression of a mountainous, rocky landscape. It aims to create confusion between the macro and the micro, fictionalising the palm-sized surface and exploding the unassuming pebble into a vast expanse for the mind to wander.
Anna Harris 