After reconsidering my proposal for the vertical gallery space, I felt that using projectors to create these images was going to land up being too confusing. There was so much that could go wrong and especially for an exhibition that was to run for 12 days, I needed to rethink both of my approaches. With the vertical gallery I had abandoned the idea of the cube totally. I understood that to maximise the potential of the spaces that were available mounting the images on the walls was the best solution. Yet, I felt that recreating this cube on top of a plinth could do something really interesting. On the one hand we had these images adhering to the gallery’s context of paintings on the wall, but in the more traditional gallery it was pushing the image away from the wall into the centre of the room. Here with this added dimension the context for the image is a lot different. We are peering into a box and confronted with these disconcerting, almost crude images. I think that in this setting the images will be much harder to decipher and there will be more uncertainty to them. They have traveled from sitting comfortably on the wall to be stranded in the middle of the room, sitting on this plinth as if they were an object. I feel that the size constraints that I've given my self are forcing this work away from the wall. The walls in the Holden Gallery are huge and will be filled with a lot of large scale work. My exploration of the space in the centre of the room allows the images to flourish on their own.
I had an initial idea that this work would be fitted on two plinths with two cubes and images on two sides of each cube. But from drawing the plans in sketch up it didn't really work very well. There didn't seem to be a need for the work to be spread like this. I think that one cube with an image on each vertical side would feel a lot more concise and give the work this central grounding instead of unnecessarily spreading it over two plinths.
I had to find an alternative to creating an image with out the projectors. I could do this by using the same techniques used for the lager TV frames but with smaller TVs but what felt like a better option was to use iPads. An iPad is much more light weight and can display an image with out the need of any additional equipment. A hole would be cut on each side of the box at the correct proportions of each image in order to disguise the iPad. This front panel will be cut on the CNC Machine just like the frames for the larger TV’s. I had originally wanted these to be cut on the laser cutting machines in order to give the work a sharper edge but unfortunately these had been fully booked until past the time of the exhibition. The iPad will then somehow be suspended behind this first panel in a security kit and a lit will be placed on top. there will be various ways to chose this but I think I need to create a proper plan to find the most pragmatic solution.