Lorraine Loots
Lorraine Loots has created a rather cute project called 365 postcards for ants in which she draws a miniture study everyday for a year. The detail that is packed into a piece so small is quite remarkable. The name of the project states that her audience is for ants (clearly a joke) but quite an interesting concept. Making art exclusively for one type of audience gives the works a sense of exclusivicity and wonder; Jake and Dinos did the same with their book of work titled 'bad art for bad people'.
The scale just transforms the work; if it were on a large scale the observers gaze would be enveloped and the sheer size overwhelming with so much space to observe. On a small scale however, there is no need to stand back and embrace; perhaps this makes the work more personal and less intimidating?
I'd like to carry on with my phenakistascopes, but with more detail. I think I will try to do this on a small scale to change the context. I am working with some iconic figures in my work and if I make them miniture it takes some of the authority and significance away from them. It'll be as if I'm re-animating the saints back to life but as smaller human beings; still somewhat relivant in modern society, but with a smaller presence in the secular world.
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