So! Yesterday I had a really mind easing tutorial which dissolved quite a bit of stress. Later on in the evening my back and shoulders began to ache weirdly. Maybe they were so tense that the previous weight being lifted was too shocking to bare and instead they ached because they missed the tension.
Anyway. The nicey nice thing is that i no longer feel like i'm performing for the course. I now feel like i can pursue what ever i want and use the course as an environment in which to do so.
Less second guessing, more conviction.
I think i'm easing out of the ruse of obligation with my work and into what i want to do. Which is exciting.
ANYWAY:
Simon showed me this artist called Keith Tyson who won the Turner Prize in 2002.
(I should really read more about the Turner Prize and that.)
Looking through his overly interactive website, it was brilliant to see another artist with a decent variety of practice. And the volume is incredible. He just produces so much work. The amount of exploration that is evident is exhausting....! BUT this is the natural way in which he thinks.
It has really made me consider what an 'outcome' or finished piece of work is. In the case of Tyson, a few pieces of his work don't reach a conclusion, they are an exploration into.
I think the reasons i have been so preoccupied with finding conclusions in my work is just the natural wont of, in relation to my identity crisis, and also because through out GCSE and A level, it was encouraged. Towards the end of a project, you collect together all your influences - artists and original props for observational drawing, you then smoosh them all together and design your final piece. After you draw it up, label each part and tell everyone where you got the idea from! - imagery of meat = Francis Bacon, -mechanical components = Paolozzi, -reference to bodily parts = Chadwick fuck, i've been doing this for almost 5 years. There is only the smallest amount of original creativity. Mainly, it's lifting and spreading around influence. Which has meant that I've learned to make valuable links here and there, and to remember a lot of artist's names...but it seems that as part of the curriculum for art, i have just been squeezing ideas out of existing ones, rather than investigating things i'm really interested in. Or something like that.
UNFINISHED
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