I have been brainstorming ideas for how to explore my themes in several dimensions, and I have been drawn to my default; the human form. This is an area of art that really fascinates me, and exploring the human form is a really eye-opening way of creating art which becomes so personal as it relates directly back to me as the artist. I had the idea of creating a full body blind portrait of myself in the last project, and thought that this would be a great starting point to get back into exploring the human form. I occasionally opened my eyes whilst making this drawing so that I could get limbs in reasonable relation to the rest of the body, as the idea that I have involves projecting this (and potentially other drawings of my body) onto a large scale maquette which I make based also on my own body. Similar to the models of the artists that we were introduced to at the beginning of the week, I want to use more basic materials such as paper and card to build this model. The idea is to wrap paper around parts of my body, making a very basic cast, before attaching together to then create a very loose 3D interpretation of my body. I have not decided yet whether I want this to be free standing/hanging or a relief emerging from a flat surface. I want to see how the projection of a drawing can translate onto the 3D model, and if the body parts correspond, or if the form becomes completely disarranged. I would like to use photography to compress the 3D back into 2D, and potentially make drawings or paintings from there, interpreting the ‘body’ that I have created. But this week has been somewhat annoying; the fact is we have been given a fantastic brief which I really want to get stuck into but with only 3 days to make anything to then talk about in a group critique tomorrow. Quite honestly I feel as if there is very little point in delving into a project which I know I will have to cut short due to changing projects again. Yes, I could continue these ideas in the next rotation but I want to explore as many ideas as possible without being distracted by more briefs and introductions.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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