This week feels like it has been quite a whirlwind. After speaking to a couple of my tutors about my work I have come to realise that I spend way to much time being analytical about the concept and not enough time just letting loose with the actual artwork. Feels like it has been such a long time since I did something I was really proud of and I want to get that feeling back. With the degree show looming what better time to create artwork which I am really happy with.
Since my previous post which emphasized a need to read and research, my outlook has been completely turned on its head. Contextualization is a strength of mine and I’ve never had any real issues with explaining my work. With this said I think what is the best thing to do is to just make work, experiment, see how it pans out.
It feels like it has been a while since I just did drawings, I guess I have sometimes felt like I needed to make art which could pass as a polished piece.
So this is the solution to my problems, I didn’t know where to start…might as well start with the basics.
I have been sifting through family albums looking for images to use in my work, primarily photographs from the first 2 years of my life. After talking to a tutor about how best to approach my ideas he advised to perhaps have a chronological thread, looking at two years every week. This was in response to my project proposal in which I mentioned creating an etching for every year of my life so I would end up with 22 in all.
What I have found interesting looking at specifically the first 2 years of my life is the difference in relationships and in people. When I was a baby my parents were still together, this is something completely foreign to me as I only have memories of after they were divorced. I am intrigued to see, after looking at the rest of the photographs from my life, whether these foreign memories are the ones I am still drawn to.
I’m slightly worried about creating artwork from just photographs seeing as many of the old images I have aren’t great quality and some are blurred. I am considering creating some self-portraits from life so that I have evidence of life drawing in my body of work.
