Giving my practice some thought.
My work appears to be revolving around the theme of creating a personal space, a landscape within a space. My personal space where inspiration is discovered and ideas flourish. This happens when I am next to/experiencing nature or within a natural landscape, I escape into the natural wilderness, away from the urban life that is increasingly taking over.
I constantly feel like I am trying to escape the depths of society, the negative obstacles I face because of gender/appearances. The elements of control society feeds us to keep an order in the world that we live in. Whether that is through diet (the food we are provided through supermarkets, sugar loaded and chemical loaded), the advertisements we consume on how we should dress, behave, live! The forces that are bestowed upon us to keep us all in line (police, armed forces). Money, which controls our career choices, life choices. We lose what we truly love, who we truly are.
This world is increasingly taking over as population grows, and the wilderness is slowly diminishing. These two worlds are combining into one, with urbanisation/society being the stronger of the two. This scares me, will we become an existence uninspired and losing ourselves into this corporate world of working and consuming? Whatever happened to “living”?
Where will I find my inspiration once the natural world disappears?
In my work I will demonstrate how the two worlds are increasingly integrating into one.
