I’ve been trying to work out exactly where my project is going and how to visually articulate what I am primarily exploring. Our learnt and primal responses are always a fundamental interest to me and are inherently linked to human perception, however both subjects are so broad they leave me with an intimidating scope. Time away from the project has felt invaluable in terms of giving me space to let things percolate and rise to the surface. On reflection, although I explored many different mediums, I think I was letting the idea of painting with glass constrict my ability to move forward with the project. My feedback from stage one included letting the object speak for itself and becoming less allegorical and within that I became fixated with materiality to a point of it weighing me down.
Thinking over past projects such as ‘artefact’, in the final critique, it was not actually the memory veils that people wanted to focus on but the Riso prints with gestural paint that were more engaged with. For me, this combination embodies the notion of the learnt and primal and allows me to consider perception from the perspective of memory and photograph. I will therefore move forward with ‘realise’ exploring how gestural marks and photography contribute to our perception and memory.
OSJ Wells Fine Art 