My meeting with Tom was very helpful. We talked about how my midterm crit went and that I need to focus my vision of my final portfolio and run with it. He said that I should consider other cultural touchstones, like the celebration/persecution within popculture relating to race. We talked about how my newer artist statement was attempting to make a bigger more universal statement and that my work is really about me. Making it inclusive and subjective makes it more my own. Two of my pieces that I showed I now consider side-pieces that are research. They weren't different enough not to echo what artists have done in the past (marker piece and sign piece).
I have decided that I need to find a happy medium between my two artist statements. The first was about biraciality and the second about othering. The work is about me and my struggle with identity. The fact that I don't fully identify with one thing. Tom told me to look up Karl Jung's research on the "shadow self". Dealing with what one identifies with versus the opposite of that definition.
The two images above are from a recent shoot using flour. I am going to experiment with different white/light and black/dark materials in performances. We discussed considering emotion and facial communication.
Michael Magin did the image above. It really puzzles me as to why he is smiling. Does he consider what the image might be communicating? Tom said that questioning this piece is a good thing and I should consider what smiling or other emotive expressions may do for my image.
Im also going to try to use different colors and see what happens. I don't want my work to be easily dismissable because its cut and dry. What would happen if I did a shoot with feathers, reference to tar and feathering...but used purple feathers? Or used pink and blue feathers? I like the idea of gender/sexuality seeping into my piece.
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