Poster Fort!

I had come up with a poster that was a little bit more creative than an A4 sheet of paper, or a digital pdf, and it kind of related to the essay, it used a creative material as the base of the poster, I was pretty happy.

I got on with the essay knowing that I was pretty much done with the poster, only words to go on it now after building the actual cardboard box wall..

But there was still a niggling feeling that the poster didn't quite reflect the place and space theme of the essay, and so the sketchbook came back out and the Poster Fort was born..

Holy shit balls, this is it.

A fort made of cardboard boxes, that doubled as a poster.

Playing around with words on these designs helped me to understand more clearly what I wanted to say in my essay, which was a good realisation, given that I still felt a little bit bad about not cracking on with the essay, but would I have just been sat there in front of a blank screen for the last day or so whilst making forts? probably.. Being creative is taking inspiration from everywhere, and allowing everything to inform everything else. A lesson I'll take on board moving forward..

Over the years I've inhabited a range of different creative spaces, since I was about eleven, a corner in my bedroom, a spare room, a potting shed, static caravan (Static Studio) and now my shed (The Sculpt Factory), all different sizes with different capabilities, but have all had a huge impact on my practice itself, being sanctuaries where I can fully be myself in my own space. I think this says that a space of your own, no matter what size, can be incredibly important to someone who wants to be creative.

I took this idea of a creative sanctuary being spaces we can rebel against the conservative outside world.

It quickly became propaganda, of the good kind of course, and my brain exploded with ideas of a Creative Rebellion...