I have a theme running throughout my work, Clouds, moons and sunsets, why do I paint these?
At first I didn’t know, because they are pretty, I would say. But now looking in to it further, in more depth I think it is something more spiritual. I think they symbolise healing and starting again.
From suffering with depression for so long and so severely I found myself in a rut and feeling low, but it turned around when I started painting. Soon I found repetition of imagery the Clouds, moons, sunsets often landscapes and seascapes.
I think I paint them because, the moon I find healing and I enjoy painting the different phases to show the cycles it is very therapeutic. The seascapes and sunsets remind me of home as I live by the sea, this relaxes me. The clouds because they are fluid and round which I find therapeutic to paint.
My painting is all about healing and recovery so this would make sense.
for my dissertation I have been studying Yayoi Kusma this is part of my chapter about her, I love her work and have found it inspirational.
Yayoi Kusma’s Infinity Mirrored Room – The souls of millions of lights years away, is one of Kusama’s more resent installations.
Its consists of a series of mirrors positioned in such a way you get a visual illusion of Infinity, the mirrors are on the walls the ceiling and the floor has a swallow pool of water. The shallow reflective pool allows the viewer to ponder life and death.
There is a walk way though the water letting the viewer be in the middle of the installation.
She decorates the room with hanging lights. These Mainly blue, orange and yellow lights create an infinity effect in the mirrors. The room is dark the lights look like a beautiful universe on stars.
The light flicker on and off, pulsing in a celestial celebration of colour and dark, these lights create a dream like infinity. Her hallucinations and nightmarish fears influenced her to create such a beautiful space. Her obsession to cover everything in dots also manifests in this, as the hanging lights are spheres of light creating a polka dot effect.
Her installation immerses the viewer in to obsessive vision of endless dots, giving the viewer a piece of her life.
