It’s interesting how failure means different to people. To me, especially when I’m here, failure mainly comes from assessments from tutors or classmates when they don’t think my work tells my ideas while to Teresa Zeng, failure comes from herself when things go out of her plans.
To turn my previous artwork into a failure, I had no clue at the beginning how to start. To get a failed result while trying to work out the same idea is just self-contradicting. But anyways, I started by disassembling my object:
Then I separated the last bit of mixture of nails and wool:
As originally it’s wool with nails hidden inside and the idea is irresistible desire to get close to the attractive, forms that could hurt me emotionally. To fail this intention, I suddenly got the idea of hiding wool inside nails to create an effect of repulsion winning over attraction:
In the process, I suddenly got another idea of hiding one nail in wool so that it looked completely harmless till you really got into it:
I thought it similar to relationships among human beings when you wouldn’t find a person harmful till you really got close to that person.
Eva Wang 