06/11

I have started a new large piece, another half sheet of MDF (9mm). I plan to create another oil painting that will become part of a larger piece made up of several large paintings - like surrounding walls.
I decided to begin on another piece as I get very bored working too much on the same pieces. I will use the same technique with my new piece - basically showing an insight to the unconscious by doing an abstract expressive piece. I will probably do a piece using blue tones, although all my pieces seem to begin with blue/purple colours. The colours I use have specific meanings to me - association with emotions/thoughts.

Installation work
I am still deciding on what items to use in my installations. I have an idea to create small/demo installation using containers e.g. fish tanks, ordinary boxes or crates etc. There is still the issue on items to include.
Item ideas -

Natural items such as folige, rocks and interesting dried plants because natural elements have a lot to do with my memories and I associate certain emotions with the natural world (partly to do with my childhood and beliefs).

CDs/CD inserts because I have a lot of connections in my unconscious with music/ association with songs as these remind me acutely of memories and certain feelings. Sometimes the exact association is unclear but I have particular emotions or thoughts/imagination that occur when I listen to certain songs.

Books/pages because I do a lot of creative written works and I have connections with certain texts.

Items from particular memories because obviously these have connections with my unconscious.

Imagined association this would be items/mini sculptures that I imagine when I have certain feelings.

Photography this will be particularly important as visual items (especially non-obvious imagery) expressing things I feel but in a more illustrative way when compared to the abstract paintings. Also I am considering projecting certain images onto the paintings or the space near them.

Fabrics because I first began with the ideas of using fabric - mainly because of the association I pin on it to do with the unconscious. The idea that the unconscious and conscious are very close but still divided in a sense - by a kind of veil. The veil represents thelink between the two mental states and how easy it is to switch between the two, e.g. when day dreaming. Plus this also links in with my collected dreams because of the layers of dreams/layers of fabric.

 That's all I can think of for now.