I'm kind of really upset I have to work tonight, It just means that I lose most of tomorrow when I could be working on my art. I'm currently trying to improve my journal to get it upto a good standard. I know I have until Friday technically, since our work doesnt get marked by examiners until atleast the 14th. But I would like to have it all finished by the 11th so I can hand it in during the private view, that way I dont need to rush back monday morning.
Ok stop ranting Scot.
I'm, really happy with my practical work though, it still needs a couple of very tiny tweeks but 99% of it is complete and I can't wait to see it all up and on on display.
(knowing my luck I wont like how it looks in the gallery and will have a breakdown)
I'm going to stop now I'm obiviously blogging through stress not because I have anything to say
Major update.
I havent blogged for four weeks...mainly since a good portion of that was spent doing nothing over easter....However the past 10 days my creative juices have literally been turned on like some teenage hormone charged orgasm...
The large tapestry i was working on had been stressing me out for some time. I had considered starting a whole new piece of work, creating it into a tent, cutting it up again into speaerate images, even binning it...However I was looking back through my sketchbook, through some old ideas and remebered I had once envisoned it being a tailor made suit. To put it bluntly this is what it has become.
The suit represents a layer or skin ...the surface of me. The bit that your worry about the most. The bit you always want to change. The stitched portraits of myself are delciate and have bits of torn paper and textures, representing the fragile human condition. I think the suit could lead to a really interesting video installation of me wearing it and even taking it off to shed the layer and let go of my insecurities.
yes. I'm getting deep with this shit.
Edit: new and improved pictures of my suit...
Updates on where my work is at.
I've been working alot in the studio considering where my works going. Should it be just large tapestry? should it be an installation created into a box/room? should I suspend the portraits in sets of 3? ...the answer?I dont have one.
At first my need to include more texture and colour was simply a last minute want to make my work more appealing visually for the viewer and myself. However I've recently been much more selective in considering the position and shapes within the patches I place in my work. Whether they be torn paper, or fabric.
Welcome to my blog! :)
This page is primarily a documentation of my art work I create. I'm a BA Fine Art, Mixed Media Student currently in my final year of my degree.
My work deals with ideas of the fragility of the human condition and often consists of images of my own body. I tend to work with materials that reflect the delicacy of the human form such as stitch and fabrics. My drawing style i like to describe as a "nervous" line, which also ties in with the themes of all my work.
