These following works
are a further investigation into the contingences and the formality of
identity. The works, which are a continuum exploring the preconceived notions
that the portrait of the face resides an accurate display of ones
identity. As further development
to the conceptual and technical possibilities within the original work ‘Behind
the Masks we wear,’ I have used a repetition of searching for an identity that
will never be captured. This appearing both visually and conceptually within
the attempt to diminish the prominent facial features of any being that resides
recognition to an identity. Appearing also conceptually in the attempt to
repetitively direct a formality of time, time in which changes ones identity,
time in which changes the artist or viewers interpretation of representing that
identity. Both create an immersing gap between the ability to accurately
perceive and inventively interpret ones identity and then to perform and
inevitably misrepresent ones identity at that given moment, as time reacts
before thought.
This series of work is not to amplify the problematic contingencies of identity and the recognisable gap between the represented and the actual reality, more so is it to acknowledge that identity is futile and caught within time. The work resides that although identity is always within change, a core importance of ones identity stays the same through time, equally represented within these work, illustrating the defiant feature that we can assume stays acutely the same but prominent and accurate facial features which defines a recognition to a particular person are diminished in the lack of ability to fully represent accurately.
The work assembles a construct, which engages the viewer to fulfil a participatory role in the work. The viewer becomes immersed in an active part in assembling their own role in collating ideas within what is diminished in the artists hand. This sustains and contains the viewers direct interest in deciphering their prolonged interest into what seems not fully comprehendible, rather than telling the viewer information of what is already known within the relationship to reality. An altered angel within the figure questions the viewer to decipher collectively the repetitive materiality contingencies, with a slight altercation within each work, possibly suggesting a search for something is restricted from being revealed within each work, reiterating this idea of a ‘search for identity.’
This series of work is not to amplify the problematic contingencies of identity and the recognisable gap between the represented and the actual reality, more so is it to acknowledge that identity is futile and caught within time. The work resides that although identity is always within change, a core importance of ones identity stays the same through time, equally represented within these work, illustrating the defiant feature that we can assume stays acutely the same but prominent and accurate facial features which defines a recognition to a particular person are diminished in the lack of ability to fully represent accurately.
The work assembles a construct, which engages the viewer to fulfil a participatory role in the work. The viewer becomes immersed in an active part in assembling their own role in collating ideas within what is diminished in the artists hand. This sustains and contains the viewers direct interest in deciphering their prolonged interest into what seems not fully comprehendible, rather than telling the viewer information of what is already known within the relationship to reality. An altered angel within the figure questions the viewer to decipher collectively the repetitive materiality contingencies, with a slight altercation within each work, possibly suggesting a search for something is restricted from being revealed within each work, reiterating this idea of a ‘search for identity.’
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