Back to the Green Room

I'm in the process of constructing the model of the Green Room, and I'm finding it strange to become so acquainted with a space through responding to images of it. It'll be interesting to go back into the real space with the completed model when it comes to installation.

I am trying to get everything right...

I've mixed the wall and woodwork colours myself.

I've created a textured wallpaper effect for the ceiling form white paint and polyfilla.

I've cut out skirting boards etc

I found cord material to replicate the carpet

I've made miniature sockets and strip lights.....

It is funny though, the model looks quite ridiculous and I hope it is convincing enough to get across the idea of a person's relationship to their surrounding environment.

The work is really a continuation of the Studio F7 'Las Meninas' piece. The viewer sees the space, can enter the space, but there is sometimes that space in between which is inaccessible because it is the space without the viewer. Nobody can ever experience that space. So when the viewer walks from their viewing point of the model to the door of the real room, it is similar to that change in state which occurs when people are in stairways. The state of stair?

Can you experience a space without the restrictions of your body? I suppose that only happens when you imagine a space. An empty room wouldn't have a viewpoint it would just be. Nobody knows what that looks like.