Inspire Me

Throughout the year 3 presentations last week I was instantly inspired and provoked to change or fundamentally develop my territories of my art practice. 

Social networking was used in a few presentations through social networking precisely but touched and interlinked through other topics being such a broad extensive conversation. 

The key idea is that social media is changing the way we view ourselves and the world that surrounds us and humans are changing with it. Giving ourselves new names, new faces and a false sense of security as the anonymity of the internet masks a morphing layer to reality. As always being an interest through such a relevant and challenging concept in my own life trough the play of social media, I feel that this would drive an on-going extensive art practice for the year. 

To keep developing this idea I want to to explore the boundaries and find ways to execute this into my art practice. Through implementing into ideas I have already initiated this year I feel I have a good starting point for a exploratory and engaging art practice. There is extensive conversation around social networking that relates to the every day, how we interact and the collapse between art and life.

So my concept is to implement my figurative elements into a starting point of precise detail and execution of the figure itself. Through layers and layers of gestural painting over the precise truth of the human figure evolves something much more abstract, something no longer definable as a figure will become the work. This idea I am ultimately trying to mimic layers of untold truth and loss of identity, through the gap between reality and perception through creating ourselves into something completely abstract, which I am trying to illustrate through my work.

Looking at how I will execute this I will explore possibilities of using photographs rather than the end artwork to show the process, or maybe not, maybe I will leave these layers out for the viewer to distinguish the ideas?

Or the relationship between foreground and background. Transparency and opacity. Through layers allowing viewers to define the essence of the work under these multiple layers?

I also had thought to how this idea of social media is relevant through painting process, and how I could use relevant materials to illustrate these ideas through animation or photographs for example of the process of the work rather than the work itself which would be read completely different to the viewer.

These are all possibilities I am wanting to explore.

Painting Concepts
 Last Thursday we talked about Painting Concepts and a few interesting key ideas brought to my attention of ways I could go about research and executing my work to portray and illustrate these ideas successfully.

- The first key idea was that humans have the ability to discriminate. In your brain you can cancel out and correct things with the knowledge of the world that surrounds us.

- This idea of concealing out could be an interesting concept in this work in terms of thinking of changing the DNA makeup of photographs which conceals out information. Just as the gap between truth and reality acts as through social media we have the ability to correct and conceal information about ourselves appearing more desirable or superhuman. Much the same when you alter the DNA of photographs, such as example of exposure, you are essentially loosing the exact original as you have altered the DNA of that photograph no longer representing truth, illustrating my idea of social networking.