project ISOLONELINESS

ISOLONELINESS

This year, I thought of a project that would allow me to include all of my key words as there is many things I can explore within it.

Isoloneliness is a concept that is within human nature, a fear of loneliness and isolation. For some humans, they embrace it. It could be used as an escape from modern civilization. For the rest of us, its a concept, created by modern civilization.

I want to investigate the things we conceive to be associated with loneliness. Some of this work will be personal to me, as I want to uncover my own demons hidden in my Isoloneliness. My aims are to travel through places, people and times, allowing me to represent themes through art. The meaning behind my work is to answer questions.

What is loneliness?

Why do we feel it, when there are over 6 billion people in the world?

Do you fear loneliness?

Is it a disease, A virus that infects us all?

Is it contagious?

Is there a cure?

Possible mediums that I want to look at are, as I said, places, people and time. This could involve symbolic factors of loneliness such as abandond buildings. Is it only humans that can feel loneliness, or can places and buildings? A place with history, now derelict, would hold memories that are fading through generations, and with no one to remember them by, the buildings would be lonely. Other things, that affect humans, is technology. With mobile phones, internet chat rooms and emails, we live in a civilization where we can interact with other people, without even seeing them. We can chat to thousands of people, but be alone in our bedrooms. Uses of technologies can temporally cure us, but who do we have when we log off. Other items I can explore is the cures people use, such as sex, a physical interaction that lasts for the night, then in the morning, we are back to ourselves.

I want to look at as many things as I can with the time that I have, and obviously narrow my interests. My ideas are sketchy at the moment, so will have to look into artists for inspirations.

Welcome to oblivion.

My oblivion.

Your oblivion.