Symposium Part 2 – Isolating the Key Elements of Life.

There appears to be a sense of cohesion between life and science.
When one considers my visual responses in my project, it becomes clear that the predicament is universal.

In some small way, we are all trapped in the cycle of work, life, and existence; oscillating between certainty and uncertainty.

This can be, perhaps, best interpreted by Bruce Nauman in his ‘One Hundred Live and Die’, 1984. He boils down the essence of our being to the basic activities of life, without location or possessions.

BRUCE NAUMAN

When analysing my primary sources, I made some exciting observations:

– The less you have got the more certain your life appears.
– Contemporary life in a western society superficially looks certain.
– In reality, it is full of surprises and the most certain things become a nightmare.
– The more you have the more you want, and the less satisfied you are in life.

Points for discussion:
• Can uncertainty become inspirational?
• If the future was predictable would you have less motivation?

Taking the Shot.

I have started to overprint the under image with deep and cerulean blue.  The surface was than blasted with a jet of water to achieve a range of accidental effects and bleeding colour stains.  I have tried to control this process with sponges and used brushes to direct the glaze to specific areas on the piece.  Subsequently, the top layer is divided into smaller compositional areas and the pattern of poppies is somehow more difficult to decipher. The next step is to continue with the printing process, while extending the colour pallet and move towards using gold.

Gold and its metaphorical significance is integral to the overall creative intention and the language of visual communication.

Opulence and ugliness; value and kitsch; ultimate symbol of desire and repulsive reality – my thinking is inspired by the two references below:

Marc Quinn, Siren, 2008

His solid gold statue of Kate Moss titled ‘Siren’ was displayed at the British Museum Statuefilia Exhibition in the Nereid Gallery.

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3122144/Kate-Moss-gold-statue-unveiled-at-British-Museum.html

 

Maurizio Cattelan: “America”, 2016 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Recently, this piece was stolen from Blenheim Palace.  It was exhibited on loan from the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

An installation view of Maurizio Cattelan's "America" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/maurizio-cattelan-america