I just got the feedback from my project and it made me think alot about what to do next. I have been focussing to much on my own experiences and now it is time to get some different input. I have been thinking about making a trip through the UK visiting the old car factory sites for a while now, and it is time to make things happen. First off I think it might be smart to start and find a local classic car group and start to ask them about how they feel about this subject. I started out with nationality which I then tried to show by cars, but I noticed that the work I am making isn't clear enough. I don't think this is just becausse of the work I think it has more to do with being somewhere else in my head while making it. Without exactly realizing it I moved more towards the globalization site of the whole car industrie and what that did to it instead of my initial subject nationality and identity through cars. ven though these subjects have so much to do with each other they are different subjects. And if you are talking about one in your research and showing another in your work it isn't that unlogical that people don't really get the whole idea.
So for now I will start to map the original UK car brands and try out where they used to be. I will also start to get in touch with people who know this world from a British side of view and ask them how they see it. Hopefully I was right about the subject so far.
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Saturday, 15 January 2011
End of Semester
Japan is about 1,5 week ago and time is going fast. This week we had to set up our studio for the end of the Semester review. Since I got sick in Japan and have been so when I got back in Scotland I only had one day to set up my studio. Luckily I finished my work before I went to Japan so I only needed to clean up all the mess I made. I made prints on Used cartboard with pictures of iconic cars, this to stay with the theme I have been using to try and show people how globalization changed the way we look at cars (and all other products for that matter). If you want to see some close up pictures of the prints you can visit my website: www.sanderschoonbeek.com. here is a panoramic picture to give you a little impression of what my studio looked like.
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