After the recent success of the end of year show "Autotelic" some of the students' at the private view were approached by the colleges marketing team for a local press release both internal and external. Below is the article released discussing Jack and his "Fashion Vision" project.
You can’t accuse Jack Rayner of not throwing himself into
his work, he’s quite literally a part of it as he sat in a see-through perspex
box as part of a performance-based installation! Thinking, er, inside
the box the 19 year old from Rochford found himself in the cramped confines of
the clear box of his own making as part of his final major project on the Level
3 BTEC General Art & Design course at South Essex College. He’d picked two
words from a hat, fashion and vision.
Jack said:
“Throughout my course I’ve worked a lot with computers but wanted to take it
back to basics. The idea was that I was sat in a perspex box and I would record
my thoughts and feelings on the inside of the box which everyone could see and
then people viewing it could respond or ask their own questions. I guess you
could say it was a physical embodiment of a social media feed – there for the
whole world to see and interact with.”
And people certainly
responded, over the three and a half hours that he was sat in his somewhat
claustrophobic surrounding Jack had messages asking him how he was through to
some deeply personal things. Jack added: “That was
what I really loved about it, the whole unpredictability of it all but I think
sometimes people like opening up more to total strangers.”What isn’t
unpredictable is Jack’s next step; he’s off to Swansea Metropolitan University
to study a degree in Graphic Design.
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