Focus Statement
The focus which surrounds my Body of Work depicts "lost documents" which is a pictogram of myself. My body of work is based around a self portrayal of different biological emotions, which make me feel lost, insecure and absent within my own mind. Through restoring my thoughts and emotions I find myself more resilient. This Body of work focuses on the lost and found emotions within myself and the restoring of my resilience.
Artist statement
Focusing my body of work around me can bring out a lot of deep and meaningful topics, things that might have affected me in my life. Using a personal focus is something that a variety of artists do around the world; however they each fact a difficulty...the difficulty in using a personal focus, myself is making other people understand my body of work. It is solely about myself therefore without knowing anything about me it makes it difficult for people to comprehend my art work.
Lost : unable to find one's way; not knowing one's whereabouts. Being lost within myself, not being able to find a way out.
About..
Focusing my body of work around me can bring out a lot of deep and meaningful topics, things that might have affected me in my life. Using a personal focus is something that a variety of artists do around the world; however they each fact a difficulty...the difficulty in using a personal focus, myself is making other people understand my body of work. It is solely about myself therefore without knowing anything about me it makes it difficult for people to comprehend my art work.
Artist
Charis Tsevis is a Greek Illustrator, Digital artist, graphic designer who creates artwork in way that isn't often seen around or modern day society. Tsevis uses objects that relate to ones self and uses those objects to create their portrait. For example in the first photo, Tsevis used many of products from apple like software icons and other apple products to create the bigger picture of the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs. He is influential to me because of the way he designs his work by using things that make the person who they are and I am hoping to do something similar to his work. I'm thinking that I might want to do something like this style, creating a picture with things that have been apart of my life to create a bigger picture that represents me and who i am today. What i like about Charis's work is how he uses digital imagery to create this huge picture. The colours and all compliment each piece of work.
Body of work stage 1. DIGITAL IMAGERY
My body of work required me to do self reflections, so at the end of each week through this term, I have written down my feelings and a word to describe me in the week.
Reflections - Self Reflections
Week One - This week was a struggle, coming back to school when I've been on holidays for 8 weeks, I'm tired, lazy, not in the mood to start working again. I have goals but are they enough to motivate me? Word to describe me this week: Lazy
Week Two - I'm still struggling to get into the working habit. This is what school holidays does to me, I slow down and don't think about school or anything. I was waking up around 8 or 9 on our break and now I'm back to waking up at 6 just to get ready. Word to describe me this week: Tired
Week Three - This week has been the worst, I have a lot of issues going on in my life along with all these assignments been thrown at me. It's difficult when there's no one to turn to. I tell myself everyday to just get through the day, the term, the year. Word to describe me this week: Disconsolate
Week Four - These issues that have been going on are finally being resolved. I'm beginning to become my happier self and I'm trying to be more motivated about work. Word to describe me this week: Beaming
Week Five - We're half way through the term and for me it's only just started getting difficult for me. Because of these personal issues that happened in the start of the term, it really slowed down time for me. I got worse, started doing less so I'm now behind in lots of work. Word to describe me this week: Scrambled
Week Six - It feels like everything is just tumbling onto me and I'm stuck underneath it all. I'm staying positive though, well, I'm trying to anyway. There have been many times that I've felt lost but I always find a way out or someone finds me. Word to describe me this week: Astray
Week Seven - Trying to catch up on all my work now. My job has an online training that I need to do before I start and I've been trying to catch up on that too. These next few weeks will be really difficult but it'll be worth it. Word to describe me this week: Determined
Week Eight - I'm starting to feel relieved about everything. I'm still a little behind in my work but I know that I'll pull through. Word to describe me this week: Relieved