During this week,  I went on a gallery visit at 10am with Cedrick and Stanley to The Body World’s located right besides Piccadilly Circus, and the price was ridiculously expensive. £22! Body World’s is a exhibition which exhibits real life muse fibres, body parts like the human brain and bones. I decided to take the trip there because although my theme is not based on human anatomy like Cedrick’s I thought I would maybe be able to get some inspiration from the shapes and lines that were presented within the human veins/muscle fibres; using it’s lines and patterns to create a potential design. However, this visit turned out unsuccessful. Although it was not useful and linked to my theme at all, I still really enjoyed being able to see the human’s body parts in real life and the interesting facts as we had headphones within the gallery which provided us information.

After this, I did was research facts online on ‘origami’ as it was initially the theme that I wanted to focus on. During this research I did not learn much but I oppose it could help others viewers understand what it is and what it’s used for; understanding the importance and impact which origami has on the world of architecture and not just paper art. Whilst doing research on origami and how it is useful within the architectural world, I decided to look up some photos which I thought I could be inspired by, and they all looked really well made and complexed which is not yet up my level as origami is not in my skill sets but I was definitely motivated.

Before the week had ended, I managed to squeeze in a bit of more in depth artist research including; Richard Sweeney. Who is an artist who makes models and installations out of paper. His work includes a lot of 3D and complexed curved shapes which I found really fascinating. His work has a range of different shapes and doesn’t completely focus on geometric shapes specifically but it was still inspiring to look at, seeing the kind of shapes he’s able to make out of paper, he also creates architectural models which I thought was really cool and interesting because it’s something that I thought I could include within my own work to experiment with.

After doing research on artist Sweeney, I had also draw a structure of his and tried using it to turn into a building however thought it looked a bit weird. It was too curved and circular at the bottom to be placed within the location that I had in mind though I do think it would’ve been a very interesting building overall if it wasn’t for the location.

To conclude, this week was more dedicated to researching informations and inspiration which I could work around, however the trip to the body worlds was unsuccessful and I should’ve researched more into the gallery before visiting it that way I could’ve visited a different site which would’ve been more useful to myself. The research that I did was also just basic research so I plan on doing more intense research which could be more practical and beneficial to improve my ideas.

Next upcoming week, I plan on visitng more galleries which I think could be inspiration to my fmp. Regardless of what I will find, I think it’s a good idea to go because I could end up finding more inspiration than initiated.