Conclusion Time: My Evaluation

When I heard that we had to do Greek Mythology for this project, I immediately thought about the myth about Prometheus, how he gave fire to man so we would survive. I’ve always loved mythology so I was really happy and excited about the whole thing.

I based my project namely on the fire that Prometheus gave the people because it’s one of the important parts of the myth and it’s also my favourite part. Through the project I was always wondering what to do next and experimented a lot. The thing I found went a bit wrong was when I did an experiment on some old acrylic and put the sentence ‘Man in God’s image’ on either side of the acrylic. I didn’t really like this much as I was out of ideas at the time, and even after I did it, it didn’t give me much to go on. I’m honestly not sure what I could of done to improve this. Whereas the other piece I did on acrylic gave me quite a bit to go on as it gave me another image of fire as well as the idea of a mobile.

A question I got that came up continuously through my work was whether I should do a final piece or not as I have many examples and show how I did everything. In the end, though, I got inspired to do a mobile and that became my final piece as the mobile symbolises the fire coming from Prometheus.

A few artists really inspired me, but none so much as Jennifer McCurdy. Her pieces called ‘Fire Vessel’ and ‘Fire Vessel #2’ really gave me the idea of fire dancing or moving gracefully. She showed me that fire could be beautiful and I wanted to enhance on that through my work.

I used many different materials through the project; acrylic, paper, plaster, etc. But my all-time favourite material would have to be the plaster as I loved how smooth it was and how I was able to carve into it, change its shape, and make a 3D effect with the image of fire.

All in all I really enjoyed the project and I wish it’d of gone on for longer so I could have even gone further with it. I would’ve made another mobile, but this one out of metal and then I’d of used the blow torch to turn the metal blue to show really hot fire. It’s a shame I didn’t have enough time to do so but I hope I do in the future.