I have been researching and re-evaluating my progress so far - I have plenty of ideas but seem to be hitting a standstill more than often.
I need to play around with art mediums more, draw out some plans and simply experiment and "play."
I have been working on some photography images - sorting out the most aesthetically interesting out of the ones I took. It was difficult to decide without a clear theme planned out yet but I managed to select a few. I then took some basic images of my own face and some shots of others to have a play around with. I am interested in layering and creating fragmented images.
The more I have been considering the theme of my project the more confused I have become - yet just by simply playing around I am now more sure which areas I want to focus on (even if it's not a concrete concept, I don't give a shit).
Elements of the human condition I am interested in is the drive we have for our own self-destruction and mental confusion, how we tear our minds apart when the world around us no longer makes clear sense to us or we do not fit into societies ideals. How our mentality becomes fragmented causing different reactions and ramifications. Actual concepts I want to portray through my work is the idea of trauma, separation and general struggle in making sense of a delirium. The reasoning for these themes is because these often feature in my written work and fuel my imagination when creating narratives - I have a morbid fascination with the break-down of mentality and the everyday struggles that we face as humans in modern society.
I have been working with some fragments of images cut from magazines where I used layering and watercolours to distort and change the original pictures - I want to create a sense of something being fragmented, damaged or otherwise altered.
While I am interested in looking at my own unconscious and elements of my imagination, my work also links in with the psychosis of the human condition and our desperate struggle to be free of our own humanity.
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