Through this discussion/ group tutorial with my peers I have realised and also reinstated many valid points to myself that I hadn't explained or realised earlier. These were:
My piece is actually filling a gap in my chosen subject of divorce within family as having looked across platforms like youtube I was unable to find any other obvious examples based on this subject that actually explore it in this emotional but experimental and abstract style that I am heading towards. Basically mine would be an abstract representation of a usually very narrow and preconceived dim subject matter. Its an under explored, underrepresented area based on trauma. I also noticed that no one often approaches children, teenagers and young adults in articles that I read based on divorce and child hood trauma etc. It all seems patronising to me and aimed at adults and therefore I am finding my own outlet for my experience but also putting this artwork out there for other children and younger people who have had similar sad situations happen within there family to relate to in an emotional but powerful way. Anyone who isn't effected by divorce will hopefully still engage with the piece because even though it comes from a place of truth based on my journey through it, I am creating the visuals symbolically not trying to obviously give away the subject but instead trying to give people a platform to see this but then experience it in a way which can relate to their own personal situations in any number of ways that they might feel like it does because there are a number of experiences people go through in a lifetime which can link to the emotions and topics within my piece.
More research suggested to now explore to expand on this and the context is maybe physiological theories from people such as Freud which I didn't think about before but having spoken about it today I realise there are old fashioned theories in out culture which dictate how we are meant to feel towards parents based on gender etc and how these relationships with parents work and help a child. However I want to see if these theories have maybe been shattered by the idea that in modern culture people do get divorced a lot more. It would just help me justify through my piece where I stand with some of these major theories in terms of my thought and feelings but also modern day evidence on it.
Primary research could also be another way to approach this subject matter and really anchor it down. Art therapy was spoken about and thinking about the idea of art therapy I feel like this is almost what I might be doing to myself by finally approaching this delicate subject matter which is personal in my very open art work now. So maybe it would be worth me looking into other art therapy techniques like subconscious writing (3 page writing) so I am able to really explore and deal with everything going on within myself then making it easier to translate it into my piece but also then hopefully making the piece as real as possible and relatable to the audience without glamorising the subject or not being meaningful enough.
My last fleeting thoughts from this session were that I need to avoid self pity and self indulgence by giving it an edge making it powerful and emotional but anchoring all this in at the rite level of depth. The way to do this will hopefully become more easily guided by research and development within the process.
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