Just the other day when we finished with our artist research, we began to create few mindmaps that would help us decide which area of interests we should go for. We have thought of three, essential to us all categories; Enjoying Youth, The End Of Summer and Being Close To Friends And Family, all have something to do with all of our memories. On each of those, we gave our own ideas of how we could possibly develop those main ideas/themes. If we had no ideas of our own, we could also develop our peers ideas instead, or change them. At the bottom I am presenting all those three mindmaps.
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We all obvoiusly have many memories to do with Enjoying Youth, however none of those ideas were as menaingful to us, to be able to influence on our next steps in our future works. My writing is in green, at the above image I gave ideas of perhaps old photography that could be recreated, recreate funny things you did as a child, focus on birthday parites with children, baloons etc, most vivid memory that affected who we are today, and I have also added to Eva's dancing, perhaps a storyboard of movement.
The End Of Summer is the one that has particularly affected my peers Johnny's choice, which was of course difficult for us all to get back on track with work, however his memories were the strongest in this particular idea/theme. The ideas that I added onto this mindmap were to Eva's ideas, such as the one about a plane flying across the sky, I added one side beatch and school on the other, also I added two head one of which is with partys, music, beach etc and the other with books, class and education.
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Being Close To Friends And Family has affected my choice quite a lot. I am increadibly close with my family as if they were my friends, which has therefore influenced me to create my final piece about someone important to me, from my family. At that point I knew I was going to focus on my uncle (Godfather), who I have visited every two days regularily throughout the whole summer, due to the condition he is in. The ideas I gave to this mind map were the symbolic jewelerry, family meetings etc.
Those three mindmaps, plus the artist analasys have then led to another, A1 sized mindmap of how do all my artists link with one another (or perhaps how has one led me to another) and how have they developed my personal theme Memories. Everything started from Audrey Flack and Andy Warhol who both use actual objects that present their memories and display them yet in different forms. This influenced me to collect objects that would present my memories throughout the summer, which does not mean that this would be my final project, yet that it was just the begining, that I would then use in my future works. Secondly, I moved on to Howard Hodgkin and Charles M. Russel, who particularly focus on the use of colours and how do they emphasise their memories. Thanks to which I know that colours imply a lot, almost everything, it is possible for the viewer to create a story if properly read, therefore has influenced me to use a form of colour in my final work, wheather it's still, light, reflection or liquid. Thirdly, I moved on to Peter Calessen and Else Mora, who use paper to create their outcomes, usually realistic patterns such as humans, story tales, angels and skeletons. This has influenced me to also create my work as a 'cut out' piece. Not particularly from paper, yet at that point I was mostly influenced by paper. This has then led to my final artist research of Ebon Heath and Tom Phillips who use literal words to emphasise their meaning. Heath cuts words from paper, which is how he links to Calessen, which has then moved on to Tom Phillips that covers all words within a text, leaving out the essential words to him. These two in the end have influenced me not to cut shapes out of a material, yet to cut words, as then my work would be literal and not metaphorical as most artist works are, however then I decided to create my work from wax, therefore the words would be shaped from hot wax, and then transformed into the shape of a candle, linking all the ideas together.
