29/11/2018 - INTERIM SHOW

For Under Construction I pasted my animal protest directly onto the university wall. There was a small issue with the placement, as my plans had grown to from the first mention to Beth to include the deer, and although I had explicitly let her know about this she had forgotten. However it was quickly overcome through explanation, and quickly I pasted my work to the wall.

I did like the way the piece looked on a nice clean white wall, but felt the impact was a little lessened by the presence of the white coving around the bottom edge which visibly levitated my piece above the floor and took away some of it's grounded-ness, I felt.

19/11/2018 - SMALL FLUFFY ANIMAL PROTEST

Unfortunately I still wasn't able to get out at all over the previous week to put my animal protest up on the streets, and this week isnt looking much better either, however on Monday I wanted to atleast test the two small fluffy members of my troupe on a nearby safe location to my house, just to see how they would look on the wall. I really liked the look of these little guys, even without their taller friend. The smaller nature of this protest had different connotations, leading audiences to speculate exactly what else of importance might be passing them by unnoticed.

14/11/2018 - EXTINCTION REBELLION MEETING

After initiating a new body work based around the motifs and ideas expressed as part of the Extinction Rebellion, at the very last minute I caught wind of a meeting of the Norwich branch of the activism initiative.

4/11/2018 - ANIMALS AGAINST EXTINCTION

After being inspired by the works of the Extinction Rebellion for the very self aware approach to climate change, non violent action, and the realisitic prospect of 'prepping', I decided to create a small artistic protest of my own and exercise some of the new critical theory I had been absorbing for my dissertation around re-empowering the animal image or 'bringing in the animal'. It is easy to think of extinction as a prospect reserved for the flats of antarctica or due to deforestation in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest. It always feels very far away and to be happening somewhere else.