Throughout my practice there has been a constant ‘need’ to fill space, with imagery, with words, with objects. In my head I have always told myself that a space needs to be occupied with something. Yet what I have come to realise is that empty space is needed for anything that is present to function. What I have seen in my most recent work is the requirement of this negative space, and perhaps this all along is what I need to work with as my subject matter. Throughout my degree I have always struggled with feelings of doubt; "have I made enough?" "have I done enough?" "is there enough there?" I came to use text in my practice through its original use as a problem solving tool, and perhaps this struggle with the desire to fill space is how I use the text; as somehow to address this desire and mitigate the anxiety around unoccupied space. There has also been the desire to impress, to try and please everyone with something "fully rounded", yet I have now realised that not everyone is going to like or understand my work. The work I am making at the moment is minimal, and there is calmness with it. I want to stay true to myself and retain the calmness in my work. What I need to do now is to find texts that address these ideas of emptiness and use them as material to work with.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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