Day Six

MONDAY - DAY 6

Tired. Half - asleep. MORBID - As I found out Jessy had called us on Facebook, hahahaaaa : ) . About half ten we literally went down the road to Yorkshire Art Space where we were shown around the exhibit and studios. On display were the ceramic works of ceramicist Emillie (I can’t remember her surname!). There were plates and vases with paintings of local places around Sheffield. I liked the vases because they were big and chunky, not slim and tiny like you’d expect a vase to be. We also went into a silversmith’s workshop which I’d never experienced before. She was taking part in a contest where the prize was £10.000 but she wouldn't be paid for doing it. So it was all or nothing.

Later a student from Doncaster called Emily came in. She did the ongoing side of the Apprentice Scheme and was about to go to uny to study photography in Sheffield! She was witty, funny and was very talented. She showed us her work and it ranged from photography to sketches of nudes. As me and Josh were gonna focus on photography, Emily supported us around town but mainly around the winter gardens and just around the streets, seizing any possible opportunities that we could use to do our project work.

One idea of Emily's and mine was to place a tiny post box and a little person that looked like he was putting something into the post box, on top and next to a real post box, while I got Josh to appear to be posting something. We took a close up shot of the figurine and the post box, then a wide shot of the real life post box next to the figures. It looked absolutely tiny in comparison, and seemed very comical. Some of my shots weren't really focusing on the little people, but more on the background, but that's okay as Vicky said she'd be taking me out again and it’s all part of the learning process to see how I can improve.