This week was an off week.
I did not feel productive at all, I felt stuck and stagnant. Although, I kept creating work and continuing research but I couldn't retain the information that kept being presented to me. I felt foggy.
Heading home over the previous weekend helped me get out of the slight fog I had, but then it came back - more solid and harsh than ever. maybe it was due to the weather too, I just did not want to create anything. I continued work on my painting, and added some more layers and marks. It helped slightly to translate the emotions and fog I was feeling onto the canvas, hence why the piece looks the way it does. I enjoyed my trip back home as it presented me with more material to work with and allowed for me to escape the bubble that is Dundee and art school in general. The ride up to Glasgow from Irvine gave me some really good visual imagery to work with and I have embedded the colour schemes and outlines of clouds, cars, landscapes and trees into my mind to use at a later date. I couldn't absorb information but I could with visuals. I pushed myself to try something new and begin with acetone transfers, which were actually surprisingly good. I ended up keeping the ones I had made and turned them into a zine, this helped me further myself from the fog. I began thinking back to my HNC and the artists book I had made with the little drawings and prints of memories and nostalgia. I want to revisit these ideas and push them further and to a higher standard. I plan on creating more lil' books of my work and keeping every experiment and 'wrong' piece of work I create to look back on see what elements worked and which didn't.
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