In yesterday’s blog post I was recounting the threads of my ideas within my work to help put a proposal together for my last project at college – ‘resolution of practice’.
I have recalled a few more ideas I was thinking about yesterday.
Scale: I’m wondering if scales works as a metaphor ? If I make a drawing of a child which is far greater than life size and in fact as big as or larger than an adult what does this say – that childhood is more important than adulthood, that the child within us remains? I’m playing around with these ‘larger than life’ ideas.
Dismembering the figure: what happens when I paint a figure without the head – does it summon up ideas of lack of thought? Or a disassociation with the subconscious? Is the personal with needs and a voice overlooked?
Repetition: I have a need to repeatedly draw the figures – I have 5 drawings that I use. Why am I doing this? To reinforce the idea of childhood? To be in a constant state of comforting recollection? What effect do this repetition have? I’ve been thinking about creating many figures in 3D _ how would this work?
And here are the other elements I was considering in the last post – just to have it all together
Negative Space: to suggest relationship dynamics;the spaces between us; as a way of shifting emphasis within the work.
Simplifying visual information and developing a system of signs and symbols : to develop a language and to work with the complexities of human relationships.
Creating ‘uncomfortable’ compositions that challenge the eye and help question the works’ content.
I’ve got to put all this together in the form of a proposal for a tutorial next week – I wonder if there are too many elements to talk about – I always have loads of ideas going on – we’ll see.
