Friday, 20 June 2014

Future Ideas For Future Projects

After completing first year I've been thinking about what to do in my sketchbooks for the following year. It excites me gathering information for future use and last night I felt a creation coming together.

I have always wanted to express my thoughts and feelings through art as it's something I hardly done in High School, of course you have to learn the basics of art but I felt restricted. So when our first unit 'Fine Art' came around in College, I felt like it was a chance to express what I wanted to express without any barriers. I decided to focus on my anxiety and panic attacks, positive thinking and hair pulling 'trichotillomania'. I absolutely loved doing this unit as I felt like what I was spilling out everything from my mind which made me feel amazing! Surprisingly I didn't have any panic attacks in first year, I have felt anxious, it nearly developing into a panic attack, but that's normal. I do continue trying to remain a positive outlook on things but I however still pull out my hair, definitely not as much as previously but I still do even if it's only one hair. I've been pulling for seven years and this year I'm determined to beat it so I can be more confident and happy with myself.
Since it was my very first unit I would love to carry on with the ideas from the sketchbook as I feel like I'm now able to express more due to my increasing knowledge and understanding of art. 

In previous posts I said I wanted to come out of my comfort zone and this is what happened.
I wanted to show the 'dark' side of pulling but I wanted to make a mockery of it also by taking hair and placing it in places where I can't grow it. Telling my mind that I'm in control with where my hair goes. I decided to make the photos black and white as I feel like they portray more emotion than coloured. One of the following photos also show the damage, the destruction of pulling. It may not be a pretty sight but it's the truth of what can happen.








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