In my project i am trying to take something beautiful and delicate (handmade craft), and remove it from it’s familiar craft home. In doing this i will put the work into a a thought provoking and questionable environment. Just like a lab that tests on animals, removes the beagles identity; my work is removing the traditional, soft craft identity from the materials. In doing that it becomes something else, something no longer functional. This i will explore further and in order to do this i will reflect upon my dissertation. For example i will relate my work to that of Grayson Perry and Rosemarie Trockel in order to explore the idea of taking something, once a functional craft item, and making it fine art through means of a context that relates to me or something i feel strongly about.
With regards to relating my work to something or someone. I have spoken about relating my work to the audience, making them want to discuss it, like it , hate it and give opinions on it. I have forgotten that i am the first and most important critic of my work. How can other people really understand the roots of why i do what i do when to be honest i am not completely sure of my own understanding yet? In furture posts i hope to dicuss my work more critically, well after a bit more critical research first.
Furthermore i wish to discuss a couple of things that are important to me within this project, as well as many others and important to my everyday life. Colour and texture are very important to me. I love how a colour and the accessories we choose can represent an emotion, your personality and to me it also represent life and wonder (curiosity and learnign also). Texture plays a big part in my life, and i am sure it does in every other living beings life too. New life uses colour and texture to determine what they do or do not like. I t allows for wonder and new experineces to arise and develope. I find it very familiar and comforting no matter the texture of colour, it all has an effect on the senses and thoughts. I like all textures whether soft, hard, solid, tactile, bumpy, rough, smooth, fluffy etc. The list could go on.
I very much appreciate the fact that i can use my hands to touch and feel the materials that i use. The materials become part of my life, my individual culture. Moreover i could not imagine not using colour or texture within my work as i feel that our sight and touch is so incredible. I love how it can influence our thoughts and feelings surrounding the world, nature, human beings, words, life! I enjoy looking at colour and feeling different textures as the vibrancy of these things interests me. I feel as a young human being that colour and texture within life (also within my craft based work) is a means to a life full of experiences, hope and dreams.
To kind of sum up i am attracted to colour and texture in all forms and tones based around both art and craft. Thus the reason for it being a big part of my work through the degree.
