Lord Whitney Workshop 11/3/15

After the morning lecture we spent the rest of the day in a workshop with Lord Whitney. The brief we were set was fairly vague, we were asked to go into groups of around six, and then had to chose an item from the front (we got a crab) and two envelopes, each containing a word. In the end we ended up with the phrase 'crab, sky, darkness' - not a particularly easy task! However, we were told not to feel constrained by the words, instead to use them merely as a guidance for our initial ideas. After a long session of mind mapping and bouncing ideas back and forth we eventually ended up on the concept of a b-movie inspired giant, killer, mutant crab attacking a city along with it's hoard of crab friends. This was by far the weirdest project I have ever undertook...

We decided the best way to go about beginning this fairly mammoth task was to divide up the labour and everyone work to their strengths. In the end I ended up dipping in and out of the work, creating a few of my own pieces (including the figures running within the city scene and some text) as well as helping anyone who needed things doing.

 The final piece was... 'interesting' the say the least. I think we had a strong concept, however probably didn't manage our time well enough. Also I believe we should have worked on a far bigger scale.