Exploring Immortality

I spoke with my improv friend and gave him the basics of my project. I had come to the realisation that looking into death and facing grief can be hard going, so the comedy element actually is a way to maintain my mood and to keep my endorphins up. To be investigating death, watching documenties […]

Improv

Planning to do a quick improv piece today. A simple idea. Doctor telling wonder woman (me) she will die. Or telling me ( no costume) or being wonder woman with her day clothes on.

Second painting

I’ve started to sketch out the second painting. I also projected my image onto the large 6 × 8 foot canvas. I can see instantly that the mirror image size will work. I’m also playing around with ideas about the hole in the canvas. Placing a black hole behind it; Leaving it empty; Placing an […]

Painting 2, sketch.

I drew out the second painting onto paper. I had ideas of falling and the void. Upside down. Trying to put meaning in. But it just feels more puzzling. Yes symbolic. But taking it away from the duality idea and the conversation between the two paintings.

Painting 1, sketch

D rew out painting 1. It is 8ft tall. It has a billboard effect. I drew it out once I drew out the second painting onto paper. I had ideas of falling and the void. Upside down. Trying to put meaning in. But it just feels more puzzling. Yes symbolic. But taking it away from […]

Process photos.

Took some photos to use in my paintings. Image for painting 1 Grasping to comprehend loss, death, grief, the void. Painting 2 In disbelief at the void inside. Looking in trying to figure it out.

‘Dead Dad’ Ron Muek 1967

Grayson Perry. Rites of Passage

Just been watching Grayson Perry’s ‘Rites of passage’. His focus is on rituals to deal with death in different parts of the world. It is fascinating to see the amount of time that people keep a dead body in their house, some for over a year in certain countries. With definite rituals and ways of […]

Concept for paintings

The Concept for two paintings. Two large canvasses. Both will have self portraits on. I will be dressed as Wonder woman. On canvas A there will be a full size image of myself looking down at a gaping hole in my stomach area. This hole will be the size of a football representing the size […]

Francisco Goya

The particularly horrendous and spectacular painting ‘Saturn devours his son’ was painted by Francisco Goya in 1823, it conveys a deep inner disturbance. This art work was painted on his house wall and in a series that where new his ‘ Black’ paintings. Goya was going through his final decline in illness and mental break […]