Spoke to Jane today about taking time to reflect back over my blog.
To consolidate/reflect, where has the journey for the project come from? how is it progressing? Where is it heading? Who/what has inspired and influenced its development.
Looking back to the begining.
The realisation within a short period of time that my original project concerning aspects of war was no longer tenable due to the personal effects of the content. I had to make quick decisions- time is precious. This was a difficult time, I hadn’t expected to run aground mid stream – had to some how find a way forward, yet within a couple of weeks and finding qoutes such as “when you come to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on!” by F. Roosevelt plus other words of encouragement, I started to find my new bearings, determined to move on.
The new project is based on aspects of nature concerning the near shoreline and distant horizon something that reasonates with me from cherished memories of my childhood by the Irish Sea. It has become a journey of reconnecting with nature, finding solace, sanctuary, restoration, healing. Something discussed by Philosopher, writer and speaker Alain de Botton talks about concerning art as therapy.
Informed by Researching.
Discovering how disconnected Western and the industrialised world is from nature- we spend over 90% of our time indoors, and don’t use 54 of our natural senses. Disconnected from nature – we see nature as different from humananity rather than ourselves as part of nature.
http://www.ecopsych.com/nsd.html
Inspiration found in artists such as Frans Krajcberg – his connection with nature through the Rainforest and his response to protect against deforestation through his sculptural installation art.
Claude Monets Waterlillies that were an inspiration to heal the French nation after WW1.
Exploration of multi-visual art disciplines in order to communicate ideas
Painting -Horizons
Peter Doig’s work has become an influence whilst developing paintings of seascape/ horizons concerning colour, aura, and layering within works and the way the viewer is invited to escape into the scene.
Painting and print – Micro-detail
Georgia O’keeffe’s detailed work to maginify flowers in order to draw the viewers attention to nature I have been influenced and inspired by, through observing the near shoreline,using sketchbook drawings and followed up through printmaking, using linocut and collograph materials.
Installations
Moving on to consider the hand installations as an expression of my response to found objects along the shoreline, along with recent ideas to develop a T.V. installation piece- the viewers relating to nature via tv.a response to Jean Baudrillard’s observations on simularcra…
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the “real” country, all of “real” America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation.
http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/850798-simulacres-et-simulation
To Guy Debourds observational writings and Artist Nam June Piaks T.V. Garden Installations. I want to explore the idea of the viewers passivity created by TV which was discussed in my dissertation this seems relevant as the viewer relates to nature through media technology, rather than active reality.
Back to nature..Quote.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, to mingle with the Universe, and feel what I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.
LORD BYRON, Childe Harold
Read more at http://www.notable-quotes.com/n/nature_quotes.html#C14C3yeURf08Rzl0.99
