The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments,
but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

(Chris Ofili)

Considering Ofili’s statement , I’ve started my research with the axiom mentioned bellow:

Inspiration is all around us and art can be seen and applied everywhere.

Then, sitting on the sofa, I end up staring at this:

I recently bought a pillow cover: a version of Vincent Van Gogh’s legendary sunflowers printed on.

Van Gogh’s paintings of Sunflowers are among his most famous. He did them in Arles, in the south of France, in 1888 and 1889. Vincent painted a total of five large canvases with sunflowers in a vase, with three shades of yellow ‘and nothing else’. In this way, he demonstrated that it was possible to create an image with numerous variations of a single colour, without any loss of eloquence.

The sunflower paintings had a special significance for Van Gogh: they communicated ‘gratitude’, he wrote. He hung the first two in the room of his friend, the painter Paul Gauguin, who came to live with him for a while in the Yellow House. Gauguin was impressed by the sunflowers, which he thought were ‘completely Vincent’. Van Gogh had already painted a new version during his friend’s stay and Gauguin later asked for one as a gift, which Vincent was reluctant to give him. He later produced two loose copies, however, one of which is now in the Van Gogh Museum.

(source: Van Gogh Museum)

The brief above , comes to compliment my view: Even by using exactly the same materials you are still able to follow different routes and have different outcomes, different answers. The dialogue is constant and the work as a result is just a snapshot of the idea the artist is working on that particular moment .To be more specific and to analyze a bit more, I have come to the conclusion that our experimenting work is like a photo shot :we capture what we feel and what we are inspired from that particular moment. I strongly believe if we deal with the same concept few days later we would have totally different pieces, totally different developments. An idea is always on the move and is with us brewing in our subconscious . It is sometimes so fragile, that slips off the edges of our brain.Even though when we are finished can see there is always room for improvement.That is not what a factory is. Factory is constantly producing in mass scale ideas that have been tested in a studio.Whilst manufacturing in mass production ,is very hard to experiment , to test ,try new things.

Baring in mind all the above I knew what I my next step would be…