My project for this semester will be looking at, and examining the artistic values artists embed in to works they create. The next part of this blog is taken from some of my learning agreement I submitted .
Throughout my working practice and past studies I have been interested in the relationship between art and the viewer.
This has lead me to question whether the emotional content an artist might invest in a piece of art is lost or misinterpreted once it is released into the public domain. (Or the observer)
This reflection has inspired me to think about my own creative practice and the relationship between process, product and the observer.
This semesters work will investigate an ongoing and developing interest in the emotional content embedded in my artwork.
To inform this investigation I intend to produce a series of facemasks taken from a cast of my own face on a daily basis over a set number of days, the masks will be made from a plaster shell, (potential for further research into alternative casting materials).
To reflect and record my experience and the artistic emotion invested in each cast, I intend to take fragments of photographs of my facial expression and apply them to the surface of the mask, by taking this direct method of a cast and a graphic image I hope to portray a personal imprint into the art work offering a direct link and an immediate representation to the observer.
For the final presentation of the work I intend to display the collection on the floor, by doing this I intend to amplify and suggest the fragility and vulnerability of the human emotion.
The completed work will provide a narrative and a reflection of my experiences and emotions as I advance through the early stage of the MA.
So, the work will start next Monday morning, I nned to catch up with Roy in the plaster room and get alginated up!…should be fun but very messy! I’ll no doubt have some interesting photographs to post next week.
