IA3- PHASE 3 ART AS ALTERNATE By Alexia
INQUIRY PHASE 2
The focus of my body of work is the concept of the lost identity lost in an environment full of opportunities. I have used a personal context to explore how myself and others can be lost about where they want to go in life, what the future holds for them and where they see themselves. This sense of a 'lost identity' is shown through a drawn self portrait piece of a man whose eyes are covered, hence showing the meaning behind his motives. Lost identity is a notion that is able to feel, sense, touch and decide about all creations. The identity describes the personality in the same time. It gives information about an individual’s character. In this context the identity is the subject. Other people’s decisions on the subject identity is going to marginalize the identity. The techniques such as monoprinting have been used to replicate a wildlife environment around the artwork presenting his ‘hidden emotions’. I have used lining across and around the artwork that is used by black ink to also create a sense of loss and confusion. By doing this I also shredded these pieces and joined them together. Environment is everything. Society, history, past, life, existence, emotion, soul, these are the things that make up our identity.
Annotated details of the resolved artworks inquiry phase 2 Developing Cultural context – Inspired by my family's roots of Greek heritage and the memories that they left behind as immigrants to Australia. Goddess Themis is a focus of the work as she portrays the feelings and emotions that my family went through when they fled their homes. They had courage, determination and hope, similarly as Themis does. My focus of ’losing a memory’ was communicated through letters in which I decorated with Greek power of myth that was greatly appreciated in Greece at the time, along with my great grandfather's funeral notice that was held onto by my grandmother. This was communicated through overlapping drawing and imagery to communicate loss and confusion .
Reflecting my visual expression created a layer of confusions by creating gradual layers of objects associated with the etches that capture the ‘harsh’ experience that my family faced. These ‘harsh’ experiences were replicated with the technique of etching, the movement of forward without knowing where your line will end up. These things create motion that my family didn’t know what was going to happen to them whilst fleeing from their homes. The empty bottles replicate that when they fled they had nothing but the clothes on their backs, the camera evoking a feeling of capturing those lost memories, and the books evoking an effective visual that was used in that period of time.
Researching Research influencing my central focus: Deb Moserts overlapping techniques of intricate layers of tone to create dimensions of fading against warm earthy tones. Her creative theoretical domain of contemporary cultural memory has been dominated by European studies which create a formation that explores the absence of origins, the inability to return and suspension of memory and its contemporary geographic locations.
ARTIST STATEMENT My approach as developed through inspiration and collaboration with my fellow classmate Ella Johnston. My assortment of skateboards explore the early 1970's skate culture and street art movement combined with music artist who we think have explored the concepts of a personal statement on society and to express the modern world of freedom and diversity. Each skateboard has been motivated by specific music artists which have strained to evoke music's rhythm, structures and their tones within artwork. The range of colours within the collection have been specifically chosen to be bright and powerful symbolising the relationship between artists individuality and flare behind the words of the lyrics. The symbolism stemmed from the re-creation of emotional experiences in the viewer through line and composition presents a synthesis of form and feeling and the artists inner subjectivity. The four skateboards represent my own aesthetic of pop art culture and the meaning towards me. The colour represents the forming of different characteristics that one can form in order to portray one's uniqueness.
BODY OF WORK AND ANNOTATION Developing: •
Selected a similar artists who use the same approach of application of techniques on interesting surfaces Create meaning through knowledge and understating of materials, we decided to use techniques such as acrylic paint, spray paint, timber, and lyrics on paper in which are material that could easily portray the symbols in which we decide to use which replicate with them chosen artists.
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Researching •
As music is also expressed to alternate in which artists have their own way in expressing personal thoughts and feelings, and artists particularly choose to use music artists as inspiration within their pieces. Researched artists who we thought had a personal message to convey artistic techniques
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Reflecting •
The numerous materials and application of ideas together to communicate meaning of music artists and their underlying meanings through symbolism for example Tyler the creator, in his album cherry bomb we see the symbolism of the cherry, so this was used as a metaphor as a pattern on one of our skateboards to exemplify the importance of symbolism in such a context
SUPPORTING EVIDENCE