The core thing that I want to communicate is my interest in research/ finding out people's stories/ that this is what my ideas have started to spring from. But I am finding this impossible without communicating a certain fact or story. However, I am worried that if I do this then the work will become about the story that I am communicating rather than my love for research.
This is unless I literally illustrate this concept of research and nonfiction but i think that that is way too 2D and I can achieve much more.
Having mapped it out, I'm just gunna stick to my objects idea/ I'm going to write my concept out here so evert time I forget what I am trying to communicate I can come back here and read this:
All of my most recent work has had really strong roots in research. I like researching into people and getting to know their stories/ tell their stories. I am particularly interested in objects and the stories that they can tell about their owners/ what has come before. This was a focus of my book, where I looked at objects on the canal and the stories that they tell about who has passed as well as in my Person's of Note project where I looked at Sylvia plath. Here I started by drawing on her obsession with things like foetuses in jars and looked at what this says about her/ her obsession with death. Because this is a project about me, I want to keep the focus on my interest in research but I am going to look at my own story and how it can be told by some of the objects that I myself have collected. I am going to look at what each symbolises for me and communicates about my life.
Skull: Originally contained vodka - reflects going out and partying/ the deathly side of being a student
Bunny: Comfort - living away from home/ my inner child
Plastic Pot Plant: Trying to bring a bit of nature from home into City life/ my inability to care for a real pot plant/ from a friend who knows me way too well - friendship
Angel: Spirituality - my guardian angel watching over me/ unconditional love and peace (from my mum, who's a healer)
Rainbow Fluorite Pyramid: Absorbs Electromagnetic radiation - spirituality/ all negative energy - particularly spending all day every day on my laptop
The next step:
I think that it would be interesting to start placing those objects together/ seeing how the different elements of my life that they symbolise might relate to each other. Once I've done this I would like to start creating landscapes out of them/ maybe bringing in other elements - this was really interesting last time/ going more abstract? - I am definitely going to try to avoid the use of a figure = too literal
It could also be interesting to illustrate each of their functions separately? - then see how they come together.
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