First day trying out my new project direction:
I feel far more positive about my work already and I feel I can really get involved fully in what I am doing.
I used oil paints today (my favourite medium) and painted a half a sheet of MDF with the first few layers of oil paints. I wanted to express my emotions in my work, to get in touch with unconscious emotions and feeling I basically just let myself paint and relaxed into a pattern of just letting it all flow out. I poured a lot of my emotions into my work my refering back to dreams I had recored in my "Collected Dreams" book (uncosncious imagery) and general feelings I was feeling at the time. I let it all come out in a similar way to how the "Stream of Consciousness" works, according to Freudian theories. This basically means that you let feelings/emotions come out where doing a form of art and see what the results is - gives an insight to your mentality or current mental state. Freud only did this with writing - I am want to experiment with doing this with artwork - namely painting. I also have my own written word that I will included in my work somehow. It is important for me to include this as it is my way of expressing myself and showing an insight to my own unconscious mindset. Plus I generally want to combine the two art forms. :)
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