PROJECT; EXTINCTION

New Year, new projects

Over the Christmas holidays, I reviewed my work from October until last month. I feel that I havnt made as much progress as I was expecting. I think this year I ned to motivate my self into Isoloneliness. A few ideas have sprang to mind, developed from prievious work.

The idea of personal projects appeal to me now, more than ever because it is easier to express a true opinion to the viewer without guessing or assuming what other people think or do when they suffer from Isoloneliness. This is when I came up with the idea for a new project

PROJECT; EXTINCTION

The extinction project is about the death of a family name.

The basis of project extinction is developed from the family portrait project. As I felt that it wasn’t moving forward, I decided to come up with a system to explain that the Teague family name will die with me. Obviously there are other non related Teague’s in the world, but I am focusing on my blood line. I want to express the loneliness of been the last Teague in my family, and what to tackle issues of its reasons for extinction. This is where I will have to think of a way to represent that my lifestyle choice is the key factor to having no children to pass on the family name, no heir to my throne.

My first part of this project was photocopying my birth certificate. Then re copying until it gradually faded. This was to represent the name been eroded from my family. I created a time line but felt that it wasn’t enough to signify what I was intending to achieve.

 At this point of time, I feel that I should keep things simple. I don’t want to go into too much theory and representation at the moment. I just want to experiment with materials and ideas.

Looking at the birth certificates, I wanted to continue the use of the symbology. I experimented with more photocopies. I took sections of the certificate and enlarged them 400% via the photocopier. I then faded the information about me so that I could create a large birth certificate. I liked the idea at first, but it still doesn’t illustrate the extinction of my family name. However, the effect of fading is quite useful in showing a weakening in an object or in my case, a name. I think that I can move on from the birth certificate, but keep the idea of fading, and the photocopier techniques.