Brainstorms - Possible Strands
'Inside, Outside and In Between' - Possible Strands
1. Inside and Outside the body
This possible route includes things such as diagrams of how the body works, skeletons, gory photographs, looking in through peoples mouths, essentially, anything where the inside of the person is view-able from the outside. Issues could be raised by the use of this particular pathway such as what it is that makes us feel so uncomfortable about seeing things we all have such as bones and organs.
2. Microscopic
I could examine photos of things such as DNA and bacteria, ideality DNA because that is responsable for everything they are, which can be a rather powerful encaspulation of their identity.
3. Personality
One route this project could venture towards would be the theme of personality, I could explore how people present themselves externally and how they, or others, view them on the inside. This takes a less literal interpretation on the exam title.
4. Holes and openings
This more literal interpretation of how the exam theme would consider holes and try to, either, capture the potential mystery of what the image is leading to, or consider what significance this door whole or opening has to different people.
5. Interior vs Exterior
For this I would study the difference in appearnce between inside and outside buildings and houses, possibly reinventing something usually used for instructional purposes into a something more artistic.
This possible route includes things such as diagrams of how the body works, skeletons, gory photographs, looking in through peoples mouths, essentially, anything where the inside of the person is view-able from the outside. Issues could be raised by the use of this particular pathway such as what it is that makes us feel so uncomfortable about seeing things we all have such as bones and organs.
2. Microscopic
I could examine photos of things such as DNA and bacteria, ideality DNA because that is responsable for everything they are, which can be a rather powerful encaspulation of their identity.
3. Personality
One route this project could venture towards would be the theme of personality, I could explore how people present themselves externally and how they, or others, view them on the inside. This takes a less literal interpretation on the exam title.
4. Holes and openings
This more literal interpretation of how the exam theme would consider holes and try to, either, capture the potential mystery of what the image is leading to, or consider what significance this door whole or opening has to different people.
5. Interior vs Exterior
For this I would study the difference in appearnce between inside and outside buildings and houses, possibly reinventing something usually used for instructional purposes into a something more artistic.
Damien Hirst - Disected Works
Damien Hirst is the first linc with my 'Inside and Outside the body' potential strand. The examples of his work all demonstrate pieces where the internal bodily workings of the subjects are view-able externally. I chose Hirst's work to represent this particular strand because of the way in interests me personally. It does this through the effect of displaying the inside externally, it shocks you, this resonates with a potential motif in this project: locating and understanding the significance of contrasting the outside with the inside and and everything in between them. Hirst offers a artistic, arguably playful, interpretation on images usually confined to serving a practical, scientific purpose, perhaps this is why they are shocking, the way he forces fuses two different takes on the same subject and the conflicting of the ideas associated with each of them. This sort of contrast is the very framework, the elemental premise, of much modern art, the initial shock from seeing two things co-existing in one piece that would never normally be seen together, conveying a message about reality through the vague obstraction from it visually; Banksy's Rioter throwing a bunch of flowers instead of a Molotov for example. This may give some indication as to why Damien Hirst is such a key player in our modern art movement.
Plaster Hands
Jan Vormann - Lego Filler
I find Jan Vormans's work with Lego an inspiring use of outside space. His work has a certain playful quality to it which is what attracted me to it originally. A German artist has spent the last three years travelling the world fixing crumbling walls and monuments using Lego. Jan Vormann, 26, has taken his project from its humble beginnings at an art fair in Rome and brightened up thousands of people's days with his brightly coloured plastic version of Polyfilla.