I have began to explore the possibilities of using thin wire material within my sketchbook to generate ideas. Here I have split an image into different sections and placed the various pieces within and around the wire. I think this creates an interesting effect, especially when you view the page from different angles and it almost gives the impression the image is becoming 3D. I have used images of Manhattan skyline as I am interested by architecture and utopian cityscapes.

I have used wire here again, but also with added string wrapped around the wire. I feel this gives a certain construcivist quality to the piece. The idea was based on a 'utopia' in this particular place, perhaps emerging from the sea. I used blue, green and silver inks to help give the impression of emerging from the sea. I found it fascinating that the people's expressions on the tram are very oblivious to any occurence that is taking place behind them.

More experimentation with wire and paint. Using a wallpaper paint roller.

I built a small sculptural piece of intertwining wire, wrapped around by string. When I placed the piece onto a large sheet of paper indoors, the electric light formed a very interesting shadow upon the page next to the structure. Therefore I decided to draw this projected shadow onto the paper. Recently I have been looking at interventing through the use of bright colours, I wanted to reflect this idea here so I decided to mix together thick yellow paint with a small amount of water and pour it onto the scuplture. I intended to try and create interesting marks onto the paper underneath as I was expecting the wires and string to restrict paint meeting various parts of the paper. However, it turns out the liquid was overpowering and completely filled the base of the piece with colour. I was pleased with how the bright yellow colour created a strong contrast to the fierce and darker lines of the wire. Once the paint had dried I was curious to explore the possibilty of burning the sculpture. It probably wasn't the greatest idea to burn it during hours of darkness as it resulted in a lot of the structure being completely destroyed, but then I guess you can't really control fire completely so that was the beauty of the experiment. I wanted to do this as I feel it relates to the 'Luna Park' piece I looked at which was destroyed by arsonists, leaving a very interesting structure.

To follow on from the idea of destroying art by burning it, I decided to burn another piece of work I had created. Similarly to the last piece I began by randomly intertwining wire together to try and form some sort of tower structure. I came across an abandoned charcoal pencil holder. This intrigued me as I saw the potential to create a model block of flats from them with different coloured inks. In countries like France I have often seen blocks of flats, where each balcony is of different colours. I find these very interesting as it relates to the idea of colour invading a mundane space. I decided to attach the wire I had built up to the flat block tower as it would give the impression of the buildings' structure behind once it had been destroyed by fire.