| Taken at the Tate Modern Gallery |
This is the first image that I chose to use to represent the brain. It symbolizes offering yourself up in order to help others. It allows a person to be kind hearted and to understand that sometimes others need certain things more than you might. This part of the brain allows a person to offer themselves to another person in need and give them a piece of their heart. The individual would do this because they want to help others and know that they can live without what they've given of themselves however know that the other individual in need wouldn't be able to.
| Taken at the Tate Modern Gallery |
The art piece was actually made in a paper mache styled way. The fact that newspapers were the material used to create this layered affect also adds to the meaning. It gives the art a deeper meaning, as though information is being covered up, and those words are what is causing the individual harm. But now the secret is out.
| Taken at The Tate Modern Gallery |
This abstract painting represented every possible example of stress to me. It shows an image that is top heavy and so although it looks elegant, the bottom half must be under strain. It also reflects a 'too much work, not enough time' scenario and I can feel as though there is only a matter of time until everything collapses and ends up broken on the floor.
Actual meaning:
This image relates to a plan for a sculpture, which Bellmer never completed. The peg-top was intended to symbolise a woman turning the heads and hearts of men. Bellmer was interested in ideas of fetishism, drawing out sexual associations between inert objects and the body. His best-known works were a series of constructed dolls. Bellmer joined the French surrealist group in 1938, having left his native Germany to escape the Nazi regime.
Gallery label, October 2016 (source: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bellmer-peg-top-t00713)
| Photo taken at the Tate Modern Gallery |
To me, this sculpture represents slavery but not in the stereotypical sense. To me it shows manual labour and the struggles that create modern day slavery. A slavery that isn't literal but still forces individuals to be owned by certain organisations and the state as a whole. There is also an element of blindness to the slavery that occurs in today's society.
When translating this into my own piece, I will use this image to represent how an individual can be a slave to bother theirs and other people's opinions and judgement.
I'm doing my gallery piece with Nick and together we came up with these ideas and mind maps which will hopefully help us to shape our experimental piece. I really liked the idea of creating a distorted image, so maybe including the use of mirrors and either have the half of our face that is facing the mirror look distorted and the half facing the audience to look normal. I also considered painting the half of our faces that would be reflected for the audience to see.
Eventually we came to our conclusion and overall idea of what we wanted o do. We are going to have a line of different coloured paints in front of us and each colour will represent an emotion. The audience will then read us questions and we will respond by choosing a colour that reflects how we feel towards the question before painting ourselves with it.
By the end of the piece, we will be an assertion of colours that reflect what emotions we feel most of the time.
Our piece is experimental because it is trying something new and exploring how one thing can make different people feel. Also, by giving our audience a visual, it makes the piece more powerful because it can be seen in retrospect and reflect how most youth are left to feel on daily basis.
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