Today I continued with collage.
In the image of the woman and the half human/half dog I wanted to examine how a lot of homeless people aren’t allowed to have accommodation due to having a dog but are offered dogs by adoption charity’s in order to keep them company on the streets.Having a dog is often detrimental to a lot of homeless peoples physical and mental well being.
I also wanted to explore more abstract forms and continue with the void/space like theme mixed in with capitalism.
Some collages I have been working on exploring the theme of ‘eviction’ and the void that comes from that in terms of feelings/emotion and that person having a place in society.
I also explored capitalism and the effect that has on homlessness.
I was lucky enough to discover some old magazines which worked well with my project and contrasted nicely against newer images from newspapers/magazines. I used images I had photocopied from paintings and worked on top of those as it was good to see the transition and development of these particular pieces.
Some experimentation printing and painting onto photocopies then photocopying again to create a series of layers.I really like the way the texture of the cardboard has come through on one of the photocopies and also the unpredictable nature of reversing the colours and you can never quite predict how they will turn out.
Today I photocopied some of my latest works and reversed the colours. Although I was impressed with the outcome of some of the photocopies I started to feel like I had lost my way a little and hit a bit of a wall.After having a discussion with the tutor and artist in residence they talked about how my work had developed a alot since the word ‘eviction’ and that due to the nature of the 2D work taking on almost a look of 3D work in the photocopies due to the dark background beside the swirl of galaxy like colours there was a feeling of a ‘void’ which could link with the emotions brought by homelessness. Tomorrow i hope to create further pieces inspired by this aspect and take it further forward.
Encouraged by my tutor i stripped work off my wall that wasn’t working and kept up those that were which really helped my vision in moving forward.
Today i stretched my paper then primed it with Emulsion paint before exploring a variety of mark making in reference to the theme of ‘eviction’ which I had taken from one of my day today projects in the first week.I felt like there was alot of emotions that can be explored through this word which relate to certain colours.I mainly used ink and bleach today along with some coloured ink.I particulary enjoyed how varied the final result could be whilst using ink and bleach and unpredictable.I also primed wood and cardboard and used the image of a fading tent on one piece which came from one of the newspaper clippings linked about eviction.I wanted it to represent how people that are evicted are seen as invisable by landlords as they don’t really consider them as humans with feelings or how this may effect them.Along with the image of one of the parcels i had created.As i feel like families are sometimes treated like parcels when evicted and sent to a different area with no consideration to how fragile this may make them feel on the inside.Especially children.
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