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Fine Art
Innovation and Interference
Maps and Networks
Personal
Research
Year 2
".. cause you're on your own from here,
so are you happy?"
- Bo Burnham, "Make Happy"
MAPS AND NETWORKS
I'm not gonna be little liar - it took me ages to come up with my idea for this project. Call it what you want; struggles getting started again; summer brain syndrome; lack of talent - the list goes on. But my brain just couldn't come up with anything from the trigger words "maps" and "networks". I mean, sure, I saw plenty of connections to what the two words could mean, and possible uses within art, but nothing struck me as "Holy molasses! I've found my idea!" I honestly didn't know what to do.
It got to a point where it was physically affecting me in a negative way. I think all artists have those periods of self doubt.
"How can I be cut out for this course, or this profession,
if I can't come up with a single idea?"
I was desperately looking for someone to tell me what to do next. To tell me what artists to look at to get inspiration. Just someone to help me on my way. But that wasn't happening. I'm 20 years old now, and for every year that passes I've got more responsibility, without a manual for how to deal with it. I'm moving into uncharted territory. I'm in control of my own life. Sure, I'm still in uni. I know what I'm doing tomorrow, and I know what I'm doing next week because I have a timetable. But in two years - what am I doing then? Honestly, your guess is as good as mine. The future is literally a blank piece of paper that I somehow have to make sense of. Stressful thought eh? Yeah, I feel.
"In a way my project isn't about maps,
but rather a lack thereof."
So, how do I portray this in an art installation? This feeling of insecurity, and "on your own-ness". What I decided was actually pretty coincidental. I recently watched Marvels new series, Luke Cage. And there is this thing that all those series (Daredevil, Jessica Jones) do so so well, and that is colour themes. Daredevil has a reoccurring red tint, while Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage have purple and yellow respectively. Because this fascinated me so, I've played around with this in my personal photography a lot recently. This is why I want to portray my project through colours. How is the question.
This lovely assortment of colour is a still from Simon Payne's work "Colour Bars". Rosie referred me to him after our tutorial, and I found his work quite inspiring. The minimalistic idea of colour and human emotions was something we both agreed would make an interesting installation, so seeing Payne's work, and how simple but impactful it is gave me some ideas for how I could do my own.
I've decided I want to do primary colours. There are multiple reasons for this.
- Colours are often linked to emotions. Red - anger and passion. Blue - sadness and tranquility. Yellow - happiness. All emotions we go through every day. "But how does this relate to your project about insecurity in your twenties?" I'm glad you asked! Not only are your twenties the years when you need to figure stuff out, but also "the best years of your life." So make sure you enjoy them! Right? We have so much to think about, worry about, enjoy, relax, party, experiment - is it too much?
- They are primary colours. If you look at the colour wheel with creative eyes, it starts to look like your life. You start out simple - three colours. But then you mix them, and you have nine! And so on. It gets more complicated. This project is a requiem to leaving those first colours behind. Even if it is scary.
- With multiple colours I can tell three stories. A sad one, a happy one, and a passionate one.
But how are you gonna tell these stories?
I want to use morse code. I want to have each colour tell a poem or haiku that relates to that emotion through morse code. Three stories that together tell a story of growing up.Thank you for reading.
TJ
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