CONCEPTS & MEANINGS

 My focus during this project has been predominantly on showing life & death contrasts trough artwork. I have shown this through drawing & painting skulls & living animals (the cat skull, the human skull, & the hare, the statues). The process of the work & choice of media can change the meaning & the emotion presented in the piece. This is something I studied throughout my project whilst experimenting with different media’s. For example, the use of charcoal when drawing the flower paper & wire sculpture I created gave the impression of the flower dying. I also used harsh lines which shows the flower petals hardening which is a part of the process of them dying. Another example is the use of biro in my first statue drawing, as biro is an easily accessible media that is normally used for writing or loose doodles, whereas I used it to draw a detailed & smooth statue which shows we can make something aesthetically pleasing using a basic medium.

Another concept I presented in my work was the way in which we cling onto beings after death by turning them into art forms such as drawing & sculpture. As humans we have continued to do this throughout history with statues of people as they are made to last a long time & continue to share the impact of their life on history, or simply to show the power & wealth they had.

During my project, my main points of progressing ideas & decision making was after experimenting with background ideas for the hare. After I had completed this piece, I decided I wanted to tie in statues & begin doing work on them as I had set the main concept idea of life & death.


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