Final major project introduction
Nature, psychology, abstraction, colour, form and immersive experience are my fascinations within art, and in general. For my FMP I want to try and combine these interests.
I have recently discovered the concepts that motivate my work, which are mainly science related. So, natural science and psychology, but I’d like to relate this to a higher perception, like feelings of the sublime, to be affecting. After all, we live for affect and the sublime moments in life.
Experiences are more timeless for the individual than things. My goal is to make an object, an experience.
Whilst doing research for my contextual studies presentation on an artist of my choice (I chose Olafur Eliasson) I came across this quote which really resonates with me:
“He [Eliasson] believes that in normal life we have a tendency to hurry along on autopilot, seldom questioning our deeper assumptions. Art, by goosing the senses, can make us more conscious of our positions in time, space, hierarchy, society, culture, the planet. In the long run, this heightened consciousness will result in change for the better — emotionally, socially, politically.” (BEAUMAN, 2014)[1]
I feel that in our culture we are so absorbed in the external world we create for ourselves and politics we chose to get involved in and forget to appreciate what we are (biologically and psychologically) and the natural world we live in. I think all this external stuff (money, power, society) is pointless if we don’t have some form of spirituality. Spirituality to me is not religious, it is the feeling of wonder when you think of the complexity and mystery of the human brain, the microscopic world to the vastness of the universe. I want my art to instil some form of this feeling in my audience, although I know this will be a very difficult task that could easily become a lifetime’s work. Maybe as usual I am making things too complicated for myself.
Although I have been aspiring to make conceptual installation, I must remember that I am more of a designer/maker than a conceptual artist; the reason I do art is because I enjoy creating.
- BEAUMAN, N. (2014, November 16). Olafur Eliasson on How to Do Good Art. T Magazine.
