THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

The final stages of this project have set in. Last review clarified a few things and somewhat changed others.

Down The becomes Down a

I'm changing the title to 'Down a Rabbit Hole'. Referring to it as the Rabbit Hole makes it seem like there's only one rabbit hole when there in fact is probably more than I can ever imagine. I could use the in the sense that it is my rabbit hole, but I think there might be more than one there as well. The owls are not what they seem...

Kill your darlings

After I test printed most of the images and started putting them all together as objects, a few things changed. Though I like them all in their own way, not all of them belong in this series and end up weakening the work as a whole. So there are now 6 instead of 9 images (for now. My aim is to make 4 more). The images cut are two from first semester, the brick and skull characters, and the new portrait of a woman with skull. The main reason for cutting them is that they lack the general look of the others. Signs of nature (as nature is reality), the colour palette and space the other images occupy. The painting in these images have bigger strokes and covers a significantly larger area in each one. The 6 I am using are made up of very specifically lit areas that form the fictional space and main composition of the image. They contain elements of both worlds, the natural and real and the artificial and imaginary. 

Bi-lingually speaking...

Re-writing my artist statement, once again... And adding another separate paragraph on the influences that helped me create the work. The statement itself is coming together nicely. As you would expect after having written it so many times, I guess. There are still some parts I haven't quite figured out how to resolve to my own satisfaction, but I expect it will be done by the end of this week in good time for final review next week.

Bye, bye borders...

My wits finally caught up with me and I have dropped the 5cm black borders around the images. Others have told me before, I know, but I come to things in my own time for my own reasons. It just seemed somewhat redundant when they will be hung against a dark wall anyway, or preferably a bit out from the wall to be exact. I'm looking into having them mounted on foam core with some sort of backing that will set them about 5-10 cm out from the wall.