My Artist statement for Semester 2 

Through my work I’m constantly sampling and experimenting to find ways to understand and dissect the environments around me, both manmade and natural.  With both the projects I joined, I was able to create my own brief and put into practice my exploration of the place.

Throughout the first term I was constantly creating work and my own briefs but felt frustrated as my work wasn’t aiming towards a bigger outcome and so I feel much more at ease this term.

I have ventured more into 3D and film work and have opened up my thinking into how to perceive the mundane. With both projects I took many visits to each place and constantly opened up my thinking into how to record the place. My works have been a direct response to the places and with this it has opened my thinking with creating work that directly responds to the environment (time and light specific). Two artists which have really inspired my practice this year is Olafur Eliasson and Katharina Trudzinski. Their work both play with the location and light and this is starting to become a bigger part in my work. 

The thought of time has entered my work more this term through my research. With the Waste Land project, the more time I spent researching the town the more I started to focus and gather information that is mundane but time specific; photographs capturing light reflections and videos recording the surrounding environment from different angles. With the Cathedral project it was the time of light, thinking about location and creating a shape that responds to the location to capture the light.

Creating work that engages the audience is another feature that is becoming a big part in my practice. With my work I’m trying to relay my excitement and need for research and experimenting in the audience by creating works that they engage with. For my Waste Land Project, the piece I created grabbed the audience engagement by them being able to enter a space that I created for them. This space gets the audience involved in being able to experience and view the subject from different angles. By getting the audience to explore the work, I hope it changes their perspective and start to look at the mundane life with more excitement.

With both projects I let the experimenting and research lead the way. By having no fixed outcome, it allows me to explore and develop new ideas and outcomes. I have no fixed final pieces but my work, works as a combination of studies and it is up to the audience engagement in how they record their experience which creates many outcomes. 

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