I wanted to experiment with my forms being placed within a site specific location, to see if this changes the context of the work. Making me create and form installations around nature. Placing my work within the context of nature doesn’t change the work, but working with the location I grouped the experiments together as a dispersed collection of spheres (experimenting with different locations), experimenting with them both facing up and upside down (do I keep the hole within the forms?). I found that by placing them within the forest it highlighted the fragility of the forms as the light passed through the thin handmade paper.
Reflecting on this I really enjoy how the forms work as a group, I could imagine them to all be different and slightly unique, even formed on a larger scale, spread amongst trees, fallen trees or within trees. These forms become very diverse as I could also picture them within a white gallery space placed on a found gorse wood (tree like bush that grows in the New Forest) although these are only experiments it is interesting to picture them as a group, to visualise how something might look. If these were to become a sight specific work, they would have to be a temporary ephemeral installation as they are very fragile, although these pieces are fully compostable, due to the material choices I had made. I wanted them to work in unison with the environment, to compliment it, keeping the forms neutral colours.
Lara Hoad Artist Designer: Maker 