Georgina MacMillan - ‘Evening Colours’
I wanted to explore the idea that when we join a club or group out of our school/work/home environment, we detach ourselves from these outside influences that make us who we are.
Through spending a couple of days a week for 3 months with the cadets at Cumberland Basin, Bristol, I was able to explore these ideas and see how the cadets interacted and mixed with one another of all different ages, as well as their eagerness to learn new skills that they would never have access to at home.
I feel that inherently this project came from the fact that I have always made an effort myself to join as many clubs as I can as a child, always stretching myself to meet new people finding a new crowd to reinvent myself. Whilst creating this project, I also found myself becoming mesmerised by the water the more I spent time with the cadets. Noticing the ways that the water created shapes and colours with the light reflecting onto it, representing the uncontrollable freedom that we all have a part of in ourselves.