Assignment 1
Reflective Commentary
This section of research has been explorative and has focussed on finding a pathway through a plethora of ideas to a satisfactory conclusion in order to drive my final year project.
There were a number of enquiries I was concerned with that didn’t initially appear to have any cohesion or obvious link.
With hindsight I realised I needed to discover why these themes have been of interest to me and my what is my personal perception and connection to them.
They appear to all contain elements that relate to me personally with the many hats we wear as females, artist, mother, wife, business woman etc and the
The murmuration work was inspired by a poem concerning night fears, using the dark amassing shapes of a starling murmuration as symbol of this condition. When awake in the dark, small hours our mind wanders, imaginations are amplified and logic seems to have escaped. As a child and as mother with young children who wouldn’t sleep this struck a chord with me.
Playing around with video was a new area of exploration and these rough clips were inspired by some vintage dolls heads that felt quite menacing. The Hear no Evil/ Speak no Evil and See no Evil seemed an ideal label to place upon them as I themed the work with cultural and societal imagery and a ‘dumb insolence ‘ concerning them as we are seen to turn our back on key environmental, cultural and sexism issues.
Looking at found material and detritus was a theme I worked with in past projects and am continually inspired by materiality for theme and content. The dried and aged blossom flowers with connotations of ‘lost bloom’ and lost youth’ informed some work using simple frottage to produce delicate traces of the stems on the opaque paper, offering a seemingly fleeting and transient feel to the work
Book worm was solely inspired by the discovery of these wonderfully ancient marks made by insects. Their beautiful and relentless eating of the transcripts was fascinating as they literally ate their way through the pages of knowledge. Unassuming of the world we occupy the analogy of their presence a synonym for knowledge consumption, denial and disregard.
These initial explorations and subsequent mind mapping have helped to make some decisions regrading my process of work and themes going forward. Combining them to an overall concept surrounding the “complexities of being female’. , expectations around femininity, womanhood, and the female body. I imagine a body of work will be more suitable rather than focussing in on a single piece and concept:
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