Starting Year 2

Mood board

The mood board above was the help to give me ideas visually.

Starting off

In year one I heavily explored different ways of painting. Becoming more and more less focused on detail in the painting and more focused on the brush marks I was creating. I enjoyed exploring the feeling of being disassociated and how i could represent that in painting. I want to explore this idea further in this year. to figure out how i can create a portrait that feels diss connected.

Dissociation

The feeling of being disconnect from yourself and the world around you.

Dissociation comes in to the effects of PTSD and other mental health problems. I want to explore the feelings around dissociation and what it feels like for me. Also thinking about how I can represent this in my art work. I want the figures in the paintings to feel disconnected and not present. Th viewers seeing these paintings and feeling like there's no one really there. I am going to explore size and see how that impacts the feeling I want to create. Like if it was really big will the viewer feel swallowed up or if it was really small would there be more people trying to search for the figure. This is my starting point to the project.

Week one:

The first week on this project I spent the time really just trying to figure out what I wanted to do but also just finding me feet really. Its a very difficult time to start back at uni with lots of different rules in place to keep our selves safe because of the COVID-19 crisis. I looked back at work I did last year and how that could be carried on this year. I have a large amount of artist I want to look deeper into to start off.