My final decisions of My Space.

 

All images on this blog work captured buying me on my phone the day of the exhibition.

This is an image of what you would see as you came down the stairs of purgatorie, a simple waiting-room that doesn't affect the decor of the space. This I did intentionally, because I find when I enter a lot of waiting rooms very often the furniture dose’nt really fit the decorum of the room. I wanted to create this in my space which I think I did quite well. The chairs came from university and so did the table with the magazines are located on the left-hand side of the image. I place my coat within the space an also placed two magazines on two of the chairs this was to split up the space as you can see in the image above. I purposely did this to see if people would avoid sitting there or would they move the items. The magazines also have a different purpose of being placed on the chairs this was to encourage the public to pick up the magazine, which I had covered the front of with different references to limbo, dying, death, badness in the world and beliefs this was in hoping that this would help them understand or grasp what I was trying to project within my work.
 

 

This image above isn't of great quality but is just to show what I used to reference limbo within my work. I picked up 10 magazines from a free book store which were more than happy to help and then I went online and found different publications of magazines from years since gone, and all of these have some sort of reference to Limbaugh or life and death. As you can see there are things like time is rethinking Heaven, the soul, Passion limbo, death is the host, too busy to die, the death wish, national geographics about the poor and also 2 newspaper articles. one is within the image but the other was not which I found quite interesting, it was a paper article that was disclosed a few years back with a frontline states “limbo does not exist says pope” which I actually used on my reception desk. When I thought about having these hints to limbo I didn't want to be in your face with titling but I found that may be a slight hint to limbo would help them grasp the idea of my waiting-room.

This image above is of the reception area that I decided at the last minute to add into the space. I did it because I felt that there was something about having a receptionist that made it that much more real not only to myself but for the public. I want to play a part in my work where I am the receptionist and there for telling the pending souls that come down to me that they would have to wait until I tell them to move along. I will ask them to sign in on the clipboard that you can see within the image with there name, date, time, email address and signature this gave it a more realistic narrative on the workings of the idea about registering yourself into a place where you would spend eternity. I want to then make the public weight up to a minute and a half to 2 minutes in the waiting area, witch I think that this would help them come accustomed to what is happening around them. Also you can see on the desk is my laptop so I would look busy along with two books that were opened and turned to certain pages which referenced aloneness and the human body and brain, therefore It would look like I am researching the human soul. There's also a wilting flowers on the desk that are very dusty and look dreary of colour and life, I think it would help me to signify the timelessness and the depth of the place. Alongside that is a candle which I will not light because health and safety, it is next to a plastic flower which is flammable so I will choose not to light the candle. An then finally I would have the leaflets on show on the deck witch I then will stock upon throughout the exhibitions.

As an overall look through my space witch is small an very simple, I feel that I have added plenty of references to limbo and the act of death within my installation. I think that it will work really well and the simple act of adding a reception will be a clearer way for the people to understand that they will be waiting. My only fear is that people would not grasp this concept that I am trying to create a space in time with no really physical form that limbo’s exists only in our minds therefor becomes the beginnings of the descending into the abyss. I just hope that the public understand that the waiting room has a significant to the exhibition.