Exhibition space and content (Unit 7)

With exhibiting there are many decisions for me to make involving content and space. Ive been in to rearrange and paint for the course exhibition and have been given a space of my own. Ive printed most of my content to different sizes in order to see which is most effective and to physically trial different setups. My content included hundreds of digital prints that have ranged through all different pixelations and pixelation scales (grid scales). 

Gradual increase in pixelation

After thinking about my exhibition i decided that as well as my digital prints I'm actually want to include the bee's physically in the exhibition to physically on display.  This is because of something i have explained in previous posts where my pixelated work seems to work and mean more along side the original unedited scans.

My first thought was to pin down my bees in a box frame on display. I have three bee's, one bee is flattened and thick, one bee is round and nicely formed and another is completely torn apart (which i still have the pieces contained). The torn apart bee would look beautiful with all its parts pinned across and i guess the others would to, i just felt like the torn apart bee would look good pinned alone. I actually went to Blackburn museum which has a massive bug collection just to think about the look of my own bees if i presented them like that.

Blackburn museum bug collection

So, after getting a box frame and putting it in front of my exhibition, it  just seemed a little empty. Its a white box and generally a white framed themed exhibition, whereas the bug collection i saw at the museum was characterised and fuller.

Then i came up with a better idea that still involved putting the bees on display. I would put the scanner (that i used as the process of all my work) on display, open, with the bees on it. Firstly, this means there are no pins, they just rest on the empty see through screen. It would be physically on display just in front of my wall on a plinth.

This works nicely as it gives the effect i wanted in being original along side my pixelations, its plain interesting to physically display my bee's unframed with nothing between the viewers and also in some sort of way having the process on display working with its results means a lot. Also its an A4 scanner, and my prints will then be A4 fitted just for that familiarity and sizeable looks.

Work space

Now i am to continue making decisions involving wether or not to frame my work and majorly which prints work best with what. So far it seems to me that the gradual pixelations from originals to completely pixelated mean the most and work the best. (See top picture). To be continued.