Overview

A lot of my inspiration came from the Matt's gallery, where i saw Susan Hiller and Mike Nelson. I took inspiration from Susan Hiller's use of colour and Mike Nelson's use of metaphor . From my foundation course I have learnt a lot of techniques that have been put into use when making my final piece. In part I was influenced by my antimatter project where i had made a video of my installation and this time I wanted to create an environment for my video to be played.

I had planned about twenty ideas and borrowed from all of them to create my final design. For example, one idea involved rotating heads this became the spinning of the character in the film, or my idea to have a Barbie in a perfect house this became the amateurish tree house.

The creation went well but it took more time then i thought it would. Getting the video done took a week but the construction of the installation took four weeks, i had to sketch the design out, paint and cut out the walls to attach to the frame.

When i showed my piece to my class mates i found some of their views of it were rooted in reality, they looked for a door where there shouldn't be a door. I felt that i was successful as the majority understood the metaphor.