This is my final piece I created for college. It took a long time to organise and collect materials for this piece as there are many components. Although in the images I edited it out, the board underneath is in two halves. It has indents for each pot. (The boards were cut by http://www.ev-rev.com) In each of the 48 pots are natural materials; 12 with charcoal, 12 with dead sticks and leaves, 12 with dandelion heads and 12 with shredded leaves. Each pot has a hand made hook which holds the wall in place, creating a dodecagram (12 pointed star). On the outer pots there are finger knitted wire loops containing the pots.

My idea was to represent the ‘balance’ between man and nature. The pots being man-made and non-biodegradable and the materials inside being natural and able to decay. The pots represent the constriction of nature and the long lasting materials we produce. On top of all of this is the geometric design, which came from my research into our need for precise shapes and forms. Everything we create seems to be symmetrical or geometric in some form, as this is where we see beauty. The geometric form in my piece is imprecise, just showing that nothing is perfect. The dodecagram has 12 points and is often associated with the star signs, the months in a year and can be broken down into the four elements.

‘Man/Nature’ – 2016

‘Man/Nature’ – 2016

‘Man/Nature’ – 2016

‘Man/Nature’ – 2016

‘Man/Nature’ – 2016

‘Man/Nature’ – 2016

‘Man/Nature’ – 2016

‘Man/Nature’ – 2016

‘Man/Nature’ – 2016

‘Man/Nature’ – 2016

The matchstick experiments led to me trying the same techniques using large scale materials, such as hazel sticks. Again these were done using balance and nothing else. The shapes they made were more organic and less precise but still had the same effect.