Lordy… Good Lord… Good Gosh… Goodness me.. Bloody Hell..
Any variation on this theme of: IT’S HAPPENING! IT’S ALMOST HERE!
Degree show madness is hitting me.. big time. I am panicking, freaking out, acting like I have no ‘brought-upsy’ whatsoever, losing all sense of reality… because the end is finally near.
Yes it’s melodramatic, but what of it!?
Well.. onto the work then…
I’ve taken a shift from the more explicitly post-colonial visuals to dealing more with themes of distance, globalisation and transnational cultural ties. My background research into Stuart Hall’s theories on cultural representation, Homi Bhabha’s post-colonial ‘Location of Culture’, and the work of Yinka Shonibare and Nicholas Hlobo have all – in some way or another – influenced and informed the way my work is now shaping up for the final show. I’m happy with the aesthetic, but need to really add the personal touch into it, to make it more intimate. The conceptual side means a lot to me, but now I need to make the material match it and resonate more with me. It’s giving off all the signifiers I want, with the materiality of the pallets and the maps and the packing tape etc, but it needs to FEEL more like mine. (cliches… why the hell not.. it’s not like you all don’t know what I mean!). I’m getting there… slowly but surely. It’s just going to take a lot of messing about but I’ll soon be happy with it, I can feel that I’m onto something, it’s just trying to fully grasp it..
So close I can almost taste it!
Everything is well under-way and I’m even with all this stress going on with websites etc (www.nwillis.com … for curious minds), I’m still managing to find time to devote to figuring out what path to set myself on after my BA.. If I survive to see it of course!!
