CONCENTRATION!!
A concentration is defined as “a body of work unified by an underlying idea that has visual coherence.” What overarching theme can I employ that will result in work that is cohesive but exploratory, similar but changing and reforming? What is something that is important to me? What is a question I can answer through my art, in more than one way, while continuing to have visual meaning?
Ideas Ideas Ideas...............................................................................................................
So many ideas. It is very overwhelming. 24/7, all I can think about are all these ideas. So many deep, complex, and unanswerable (new word?) questions. My brain was swimming!!! I can't hold normal conversations. I am kinda a wacko.
Really since my Scholastic 144 piece, I've been thinking a lot about what society is and what an individual person is. How are we defined? What would life be like without any rules? No more society, just individuals. Could we exist? Would rules end up existing anyway? Okay, then why would rule reappear? Is it ingrained in humanity? Can we overcome it? Should we? What conflicts are there? Where do we rebel against society and we do we depend on it?
Society. The individual. What is this relationship? How do they interact and rely on each other?
Society. The individual. What is this relationship? How do they interact and rely on each other?
Concentration Statement:
Variety of Ceramic work that exemplifies the conflict between the individual and society represented through figure and form.
Okay, So What does that look like?
Both works below (my first time using underglaze and my metamorphosis project) inspired me to work with abstract line and shape. The first piece was an exploration of underglaze and I was just messing around. But I think that that quality of exploration fits well with my concentration. I don't know the answers to the million questions I have, and I'm not exactly trying to discover the "right" one. I'm just exploring. Messing around with ideas and obnoxiously huge concepts.