My proposed Idea for Final Exhibition

My work at the moment is based around using various unusual painting techniques to recreate images of diseased cells, primarily cancer cells. I want to draw the audience into my work and look at the details in my pieces as this was something that I don't feel happens enough in galleries. You are always aware that there is a person sat in the corner watching your every move to ensure you don't tamper with the work or try to steal it, which often results in the viewer being wary of getting too close to the work. At the start of my project I was creating strips of paper with prints going down, changing each time the print lost some paint. The changes were very subtle as well as the intricate marks made and required the viewer to peer very closely into the paint, however when presenting my work in crits and tutorials I found that the audience stood too far away for the detail to be seen. I contemplated the idea of creating tiny pieces so that the audience would have no choice but to go right up to the work, but I decided that the work might seem very lost in a room with other larger pieces. I then thought about combining the idea of cells and microscopy.

For my final piece I want to create some microscope slides of my own either with tiny designs of my own on, or just samples of paint mixed with unusual substances to see what the structure looks like. Ideally I would like to paint the structure of a cancer cell and then somehow shrink it onto a piece of glass so that it looks like an original cancer slide. In reality I don't know how feasible this is, and may end up just using real slides bought off the internet. I also want to paint approximately 3 large paintings of my interpretation of cells to hang. Ultimately I will need a plinth with a microscope on it and a place to store the slides, and some wall space to hang my paintings. Depending on the type of microscope I can get hold of I will probably have to have a socket close by too.