Fourth week has gone by and fast, already feels like time is running out!
My practice is well underway now. For the past week I have been processing and scanning the rolls of films I have shot.
I have also started developing some of them in to photo-etchings.
My research and interest has led me into depictions of alchemy, mysticism, religious and varied iconography. I am interested in creating a magic surrealism narrative in visual form, it will start from my birth and finish at a sort of ascension and/or artistic enlightment.
One level, I have started drawing from previous interests in magic surrealism novels by the likes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Laura Esquivel. The novel of particular interest is Marquez’s book Cien Anos de Solitud (One Hundred Years of Solitude), which is written full of detailed and fantastical imagery. I see the as exaggerations of the human character and society, which is what I am interested in.
On another level my intrestest also stem from catholic and gothic depictions of christ and so on.
I will hopefully start building a model of the structure that would hold and display my photos and photo-etched plates. I envisage a triptych and/or altar in my name. A celebration and exaggeration of my life, an idolisation of me. A somewhat narcissistic and surreal view of myself. Images to follow!
