Monday 11 October 2010

The plan for this year

First, before this year’s idea’s start to develop, I must reflect briefly on last years mistakes. Prior, my work was based on fashion photography, which was based on aesthetics. One of my flaws as an artist is to aim to create work that would please the viewers, or to be pleasing on the eyes. My work contained no contextual underlines and had no sense of feeling, emotion or reality. I create ‘pretty little pictures’.
This year, my first aim is to become more assertive in my work, allowing myself to express what I think, against the thought of what other people what to see. I think that this will be difficult because my whole life works have been based on pleasing. I feel that if I can break out of this routine, it will allow me, as an artist, to develop.
I want to explore physical and emotional boundaries that affect us all in different ways. I want to be able to produce work with texture and intensity so that the viewer can relate, yet not fully understand the concept of what they are looking at. By leaving a little suspense into my work, I hope that it will allow the time for thought and reflection, not just a glance and move on. If I can achieve this, I can widen the possibilities to the way I work.
Photography seems to be a popular choice for me last year as a medium, but this year I intend to broaden the tools I work with. Admittedly, my drawing isn’t a medium I have a choice to work with as I struggle with it, and feel like I won’t have time this year to practice. I would like to look into using different methods of expressing my intentions, so we will see what the year brings. As photography is one of my stronger points, I will still use it, but try to use less of it.
I think that it would be easier to sum up what my aims are this year in a few words.
Exploring
Experimenting
Trial and error
Texture
Emotion
Rawness
Messy
Random
Devastating
Fearing

Now it is time to take the plunge..........

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