Film stills and own images…
After a tutorial and reading back blog post 10 I have been led to revisit the idea of video stills in the context of the paintings I have been creating – Trapped Flesh I in progress > see image.
Below my image is a still appropriated by Francis Bacon. Bacon did not directly paint from this. Or at least he didn’t try to replicate it but rather used elements of what he read from the image to render his own interpretation of disturbed flesh.
I have also looked at other imagery from Horror films. Stills from – Psycho and The Woman in Black.
I am also gathering other primary images for my second Trapped Flesh painting. I want these paintings to hang next to each other.
I could screw the canvases together for the degree show?
I want to divert from my own imagery and work partially from my imagination. I think this will lead me to deal more with the physicality of the paint.
Will there will be a change of balance between subject and materials through my change in process??
As part of the beginning of my process I have edited and flipped some images. I want the two faces to curve away from each other.
By screaming away from each other. Will they become more isolated?
Isolated is another emotion linked to the feeling of anxiety I have been exploring.
