Final Piece - My Lost Environment

Everything in this piece uses items from house, many of them are burnt and ruined or rusted. I hung items in the window frame (burnt from the fire) with fishing wire and eyelet hooks. I then used an MDF board (not from the house, ahah) and collaged the original house plans and wallpaper from one of the bedrooms onto it. I mixed this with photos of the ruins, emulsion, coffee and a heat gun. The coffee helped suggest water damage (a lot of my stuff was ruined due to that) and created a burnt affect as well. The heat gun singed and created a burnt look. I then decided to use sand paper to sand away some of the wood and the pictures, creating lots of little scratches and marks - which added more to ageing and damage of the work.

There was a problem with using the heat gun, unfortunately. I'm very afraid of fire and causing things to possibly set a light, and heat gun does exactly that. At one point, the pages on the board emberded and there was a bit of a panic from me. But I've improved enough with my phobia that the next day, I could continue using it - just a but more carefully!

Anyway, this piece represent the fire and my progress from it. Before, I avoided the topic and tried to ignore my feelings about it, I closed myself up as much as possible about it something.  With this piece, I confronted that feelings and my issues. I learnt how to cope with sometimes getting shaking, and knowing when to allow myself space to think about it, as well as dealing with other people on the whole issues.

I don't feel this piece is particularly great, but it means everything to me.