Task 6

Modes of Practice,

I start with a sculptural form, a 3D design or a found object,  develop a motif as a metaphor, linking to my life experiences. I will explore the sculptural element so that it stands alone as an artefact .  I then develop meaning from the form and represent that as a 2D image on the surface of a pre-treated photographic canvas. The image selected will have meaning through its context within the framework to the sculptural form. which infuses the 2D with a personal autobiographical context.  Colour onto the canvas through the printing medium using  a range of techniques to obscure  the image on the photographic canvas. The resulting 2D work remains in a flatbed style where it doesn’t represent the real world there is intentionally no meaning to any accidental depth of field, no top or bottom no right way up.  I need to obscure my own autobiography with paint in order to remain private and yet to reveal enough elements to enable a viewer to identify the everydayness of troubles that fall on us all like erratic’s falling from an ice glacier. The randomness of unasked for tragedies.  Throughout the entire process the made artefact  remains hidden in plain sight, a representational metaphor, a palimpsest to cover and curate my own work.  Then to daringly challenge myself to expose more of myself and overlay the work with text that has meaning for me.