I spent a lot of time pen at the ready trying desperately to understand where I was going wrong during the most of my first semester of this year. It wasn’t until I referred back to the project I was most proud of that I finally realised. I have been trying to change who I am. I am not’ a painter’. I am not ‘a photographer’. I am not ‘a printmaker’. I am A Artist. I don’t need to define my work by the medium I use and limit myself to my technical abilities. I define my work in the following ways: Idea, Journey, Solution, Outcome. I have spent much of my artist journey through UCS looking at the human form. Looking being the key word. No wonder my work wasn’t building any fathomable emotion within myself or my viewers. I need to EXPLORE the human form and for the purpose of my final year I have decided to explore the human form in terms of emotions. For how do we know how a person is truly feeling, after all we can only perceive what a person wants us to. Not many people would know how I really felt over the last two and a half years. Also how could I expect them to? For example, how do I know that what I consider to be the emotional connotations of fear is the same as what you consider them to be. It was this thought that led me into the idea that my work centralises. What if emotions existed in a physical state. Surly that would make it easier for our feelings to be transferable. If we could see what an emption really looked like then maybe, just maybe we would have a better understanding of it. This is the concept that I tend to explore over the duration of my time left at UCS.
