Its been along time since i posted and clearly i must have been busy with art projects! I will try and backtrack and show my progression as currently i am on my end of year project.
Heres a taster of my last project….
Expressions in ‘Pain(t)’ A lifesize acrylic on stretched canvas
It is a representational piece which could be labeled expressionist, conceptual and confessional as it is my interpretation of the lowest point when chronic health gets the better of your body.
The paint drips and goes wishywashy gradually fading the legs till almost invisible. The old weighted diving suit renders the body into such laboured and painful movement that the legs cannot support the body, which creaks and groans under the pressure. The fever, fatigue and failing faculties force you to confinment through total debilitation and embarrasment, you rest and hide for fear of strange looks or delibetate ignoring or unanswerable enquiring from familiar faces with no names. Your mouth utters a strange language noone can decipher including yourself! So you resign yourself to hiding behind the mask of closed doors until you feel coherant enough to resurface, gasping air like a hungry child given a sweety jar not knowing when its going to be taken away and how long for.
I painted this for my own release, it was agonizing at times but the positive far outweighed the negative, i also send tribute to all of those living with Chronic Illnesses and refusing to let it define them and i hope you all find a way of releasing, by doing something you love. Frida Kahlo was great inspiration to me throughout this project as she found ways to keep painting despite her devastating pain and dissabilities.
I would rather have pain from doing something i love than having pain anyway having done nothing! Takes the saying “no pain no gain” to the limits, but it was never in my genes to do anything less than my best. đŸ™‚
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