Hello everyone!
This is a very quick update with what I’ve been doing over Christmas. A lot of people are celebrating the end of their dissertations in their posts so I’m not going to talk about that. The only thing that I will say is how much of a relief it is to be thinking creatively again.
So what have I been doing over Christmas you ask? Well to be honest I tried to do the odd piece of art work and that’s about as far as I got. I haven’t really thought much about my studio work, I only took a few pictures which you can see on the side of this post.
What I aimed to do was think about my work in a more conceptual way. Having a specific meaning, or a feeling, behind a piece of work is something that has strongly appealed to me recently. I guess it’s because feeling is a uniquely personal experience, you feel what you feel on the inside and whether you choose to reflect that on the outside or not that’s up to you and what you’re feeling.
An artwork can express a feeling or convey something of which you can’t explain with words and this is what I’ve been trying to experiment with. Through this emotion and feeling I have thought about the many different ways in which people can react to artwork, the initial reaction and the afterthoughts. I remembered the first time I walked into a certain local gallery and the feelings which resonated with me. Having had more time to travel over Christmas (Only to London and the surrounding areas) I was awestruck by all the people that I came across. It made me wonder about how individuality is important inamongst all the beautiful colours of the world. I know that I probably sound ridiculous right now but that’s my attempt at explaining what’s been going on in my head over the past few months.
Back to my art work then, I continued to edit my portraits and experiment with the use of text. This is something I aim to build on in the next few weeks.
I want my work to appeal to the individual. Perhaps I better give it a few days and make another post when I’ve done some more experimenting?
Watch this space…
