Second Idea

My initial idea was refused due to health and safety issue. I have to adapt my idea into something involving less risks. The brick wall might have fallen appart onto someone, such as a children and cause serious damages, morover considering the short amount of time would not allow me to build a safe wall, the mortar has to be dried, and takes up to 3 days. In order to solve this problem I have 3 options, if i would like to keep my idea with the wall i can create a wall with styrofoam this way the work will not be heavy and much easier to do. I can create a 30 cm wall with one single row of brick, or I can create an illusion of a wall with plaster and paint fake bricks. I decided to change my idea, as I think a installation of this type, has to be of an imposing height in order to create an impact to the public, especially since it will be in a park. I thought of a piece of a cloth, if stretched it could still create a wall, inspired by Christo and Jeanne claude "Running fence", i noticed that cloth was enough to create a separation. A separation is physical but also an idea, therefore marking territories could even just be a line in the floor, or writing in a map. I chose to opt for fabric, that i would stretch in between two trees from a line of trees. The interesting thing with fabric though, is that you could cut through, and walk through it. As my wall is the one standing between people and their own happiness, it would be interesting to play with the properties of my fabric and make a slit wher people can come through. It becomes a performance, and also a therapy, by walking through this "wall" people can break down the wall inside them, and come pure and simply happy. If i make the slit, though i have to beware of trip hazards and of rips. The work cannot rip, as it may become dangerous if for example one bit fly off.

I started experimenting with different type of fabric, one was see through, one was a canvas heavy fabric, and the other one was cotton. I thought of making one strip black one strip white, for aesthetical matters, however i opted for the simple and white fabric as i thought it would convey my idea more effectively. I tried the see through fabric, i bought in the shop and sawed the two stripes together by hand. I did this; because i knew that the dimensions were going to be quite big and the width of the any fabric would not be large enough. So I asked a friend to pull one side when i was pulling the other, to see how resistant the fabric was as it will have to resist the wind without riping, morover it will have to resist the rain. The fabric ripped immediately. The second test was tried out on the canvas fabric, this one didn't rip but when i carried out a second test to see if it would resist the water i noticed it became verry heavy, i could barely lift it. In great dimensions, the canvas would damage the structure carrying it or could fall off and cause serious damage to the public. I opted therefore for the third fabric which was the cotton one.

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