I’ve started to explore my work in terms of process. After initially using collage to develop the ‘floor plan’ drawings, I tried scratching away at the prints to reveal the pathways created when I walk round my house. These pieces move my work away from being purely 2D -at last!
Just three weeks until I finalise the work for my Degree Show and I’m just begining to feel the pressure.
This week my work has moved on a little. Making simple black and white drawings had started to feel oppressive. My tutor also suggested that they were difficult to read – not giving the viewer enough information. He suggested basing the drawings on a ‘real’ floorplan of my house.
An internet search produced a found image of a plan for a similar house in my area. I’ve started drawing and painting on the plan. At the moment I’m interested in the results but I’m also very aware that I have until May 13th to make final decisions about work for the degree show.
Summer term started on 1st April – someone at Nottingham Uni has a sense of humour.
This week I’ve been very focussed on making drawings about walking around the ground floor of my house. – Experimenting with sizes, media and layout.
I estimate that I will need 40 – 50 drawings in order to have enough work to make a critical judgements when selecting for my degree show.
At the moment this feels like hard work.
In the age of the Selfie my work challenges the conventions of self-portraiture. I make drawings that are informed by my senses - touch, sight, movement. My intention is to use my own sensory experience to create self-portraits but not to reveal a representation of my body. Instead the work is a record of my shifting perceptions. In making the work I am seeking to capture my own vulnerability on a journey of self-discovery.
