Compared to year two, I feel this semester’s work has been a real turning point in terms of getting to grips with my concept within my working practice. I think it was vital for me to understand why I was interested in this subject and how it influences what I am working on, rather than just looking at it with no viable intentions. Last year, I was focused on producing something aesthetically ‘pretty’ and producing art in response to a set of statistics; whereas this semester I have been focusing on my personal, conceptual, exploration of how I specifically interpret the word death, not feeling the need to make my work literal, rather just experimenting with materials to what I am feeling that day. Looking at interpreting my emotions towards it; making the work more relevant to me and allowing me to have more of a presence within the work I am producing, unlike last year where there was a sense of detachment.
What I like about my art work is that it’s a continuous evolution of pieces, one outcome always leading onto another, constantly changing and abstracting further from the original works. Starting off with the experimentation of filming the reaction of the two liquids; water and ink, editing these into slow-motion, fast-forward and reverse, taking stills from these to take further into drawing/painting, then working on an animation in response to the drawing. Which then led me to making a series of wire maquettes from the animation, which led to a series of minimalistic drawings from the maquettes; getting more and more subdued from the originated image the more I abstracted from each process. Alongside these, creating gestural, experimental paintings with a monochromatic colour palette, which were nothing like I’ve produced before and I quite enjoyed the process.
I believe I have explored a variety of media’s this semester, working on various surfaces as well as different mediums, but moving forward I would like to work with substances such as oil or black paint to add to the water to explore many different outcomes. As well as investigating the death of materials and incorporating this into my practice, allowing my work to become ephemeral and personify transience. As I still have no definite idea for my final major project, I think it is important for me to really push myself into creating as much as I possibly can, always coming into the studio space with a set of perimeters when making and a set of targets to complete that day, which is something I feel I have struggled with as of late. Leading me onto my next point, of my greatest constraint, of time-management. I know and have acknowledged that I am a slow worker and don’t necessarily produce as much work as I should, so I will need to push myself really hard over next semester and getting my peers to give me advice on a regular occasions to always make sure I am moving forward with my work.
Overall, I think it terms of concept and underpinning I have got an in depth amount of sources and information that I have been researching, linking my work into the contemporary fine art debate as well as linking myself to contemporary artists that are still producing works to this very day. However my time-management is really limiting my practice at the moment and moving forward I will desperately need to tackle this.
What I like about my art work is that it’s a continuous evolution of pieces, one outcome always leading onto another, constantly changing and abstracting further from the original works. Starting off with the experimentation of filming the reaction of the two liquids; water and ink, editing these into slow-motion, fast-forward and reverse, taking stills from these to take further into drawing/painting, then working on an animation in response to the drawing. Which then led me to making a series of wire maquettes from the animation, which led to a series of minimalistic drawings from the maquettes; getting more and more subdued from the originated image the more I abstracted from each process. Alongside these, creating gestural, experimental paintings with a monochromatic colour palette, which were nothing like I’ve produced before and I quite enjoyed the process.
I believe I have explored a variety of media’s this semester, working on various surfaces as well as different mediums, but moving forward I would like to work with substances such as oil or black paint to add to the water to explore many different outcomes. As well as investigating the death of materials and incorporating this into my practice, allowing my work to become ephemeral and personify transience. As I still have no definite idea for my final major project, I think it is important for me to really push myself into creating as much as I possibly can, always coming into the studio space with a set of perimeters when making and a set of targets to complete that day, which is something I feel I have struggled with as of late. Leading me onto my next point, of my greatest constraint, of time-management. I know and have acknowledged that I am a slow worker and don’t necessarily produce as much work as I should, so I will need to push myself really hard over next semester and getting my peers to give me advice on a regular occasions to always make sure I am moving forward with my work.
Overall, I think it terms of concept and underpinning I have got an in depth amount of sources and information that I have been researching, linking my work into the contemporary fine art debate as well as linking myself to contemporary artists that are still producing works to this very day. However my time-management is really limiting my practice at the moment and moving forward I will desperately need to tackle this.