Starting the spring term...

Over the first few weeks of the Spring term, we have been asked to complete a piece of work which is influenced and inspired by the work produced by another member of our year group. My influence, Caroline Widdop, whose piece I had to look at, as well as everything else wonderful she is up to, can be seen here on her page found by clicking the link at the bottom of this post.

After always always avoiding projects in which the subject is myself, and avoiding at all costs painting self portraits (not one of my great talents!), I was initially rather daunted by the thought of both of these aspects of the work. However, there are individual parts of the work which I find very intriguing – most especially the fact that the piece is named ‘Mulitple Personality Order’, instead of ‘disorder’. I decided to take this word ‘order’ in relation to personality very literally, thought about the different sides of my personality, and ordered them, into matchboxes. After messing around with trying to do some small drawings and paintings, I thought it would reflect my character more if I was to use some kind of writing. In each box is an extract from a novel, a poem, a play or an article which all relate to some kind of aspect of my personality. The fact that the matchboxes are slightly open, but you still can’t tell what is written, is something that I quite like – there is an invitation for people to perhaps open and read, but I doubt that people would in a studio exhibition. Like my own (and everyone’s personality) there are light and dark qualities which we can’t show all at the same time – so the idea of control and order, revealing and hiding all had a great part in this work. Overall I was happy with the final outcome, and found the whole process useful and very thought provoking. Can’t wait to crack on with the work I begun last term now!

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