Digital Images
The digital images have progressed to digital sequences in my mind. I want a narrative and I've altered the images in the first series to fit into a better saturation sequence. This has become about the bleeding in of color and saturation--the internal chaos of the female character being symbolically realized externally. There's one extreme of almost no saturation with a lot of light and the other extreme with over saturation and little light.
One of my committee members popped into the lab while I was working on Wednesday and he brought up the idea of taking away some of the "shock-tactic" morbidity by turning them upside down. With this specific sequence the idea appealed to me for multiple reasons--the body turned into an object which slightly mimicked the human heart and I had to struggle to read past the idea that it was simply a spliced and sewn glob of flesh. The external becomes the physical manifestation of the internal.
I have made the decision that these digital sequence images need to be completed, because they will be reinforced through the graphite "trace" drawings. Perhaps these larger trace drawings will flank the more intimately-scaled digital sequences which are also in color. By doing this I would solve many integration concerns within the gallery setting that I have. The only aspect of this work that I'm sure of is that it's ever-evolving and that I will feel perpetually behind schedule. I'm finally coming to terms with this.
One of my committee members popped into the lab while I was working on Wednesday and he brought up the idea of taking away some of the "shock-tactic" morbidity by turning them upside down. With this specific sequence the idea appealed to me for multiple reasons--the body turned into an object which slightly mimicked the human heart and I had to struggle to read past the idea that it was simply a spliced and sewn glob of flesh. The external becomes the physical manifestation of the internal.
I have made the decision that these digital sequence images need to be completed, because they will be reinforced through the graphite "trace" drawings. Perhaps these larger trace drawings will flank the more intimately-scaled digital sequences which are also in color. By doing this I would solve many integration concerns within the gallery setting that I have. The only aspect of this work that I'm sure of is that it's ever-evolving and that I will feel perpetually behind schedule. I'm finally coming to terms with this.