Reflecting on this blog… I find grammar a struggle. (I guess you may have noticed). #dyslexia. However, this medium has given me the platform to express my thought processes about my artwork and continue to seek out relevant artists that express the same themes, i.e. identity, race, and gender-representation. I wish we were asked to do this from the beginning of the course or maybe from the second year. I was really encouraged to continue with my own ideas as I found how the artists, Augusta Savage, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Sonia Boyce presented and illustrated their works of art.
My focus continues to be from my cultural lens, cultural memory and Postmemory. As my journey tells a story in art, and supported this with research on artists who worked within the same scope. My findings (artists) gave me the reassurance that I was on the right track with my thinking process and learning more about the methods for the materials that I chose to use.
I’m not going to speak on my final project, as I want the artwork to speak for itself. I am tinkering away on things and all is going well.
I am reminded of some of my first works… The focus was children. Birth Inspiration and Purposeful Birth Creations © 2005 -2016. These artworks show that the subject ‘identity’ has always been a compassion I’ve strived to articulate.
Purposeful Birth Creations, #loleithaart
