Okay here's my BOW that I'm working on rn, there's a lot of information I want to convey but I'm 100% sure I will miss or skim over because I will probably forget as I'm writing so feel free to ask me questions!
Potential titles: Mind map, In hindsite (the one I liked the best), trip down memory lane
Size of artwork:
https://imgur.com/XsXHgT7 4m x 1.5m with a 15 cm border around which i will cut off later
Mediums: Watercolour, inkjet print transfer, pen and ink
vommitting out my idea: My BOW idea is that memories are subjective, convoluted and complex and how individuals combine details from separate experiences to form different memories. This will be represented in my composition consisting of my memories from both Hong Kong and Sydney where I grew up. My work is quite large scale to overwhelm the audience who will view its entirety as an abstracted blur much like how we reminisce on past experiences, hence forcing them to examine closely to have an intimate view into my 'world' which could also elicit familiar memories they have with from my own. I am using watercolour as it is quite fluid and can reflect the nature of these memories in how they can conform, distort, be vague and flow but also having pen and ink as well as inkjet transfer prints to anchor parts of the composition as these mediums are bolder acting as firmer memories, the different scenes are painted within a very convoluted road map sort of composition with the roads leading the audience's eyes through the piece (i decided to not do anything to the road in terms of writing or painting them black or grey as this is too literal and I still want the audience to interpret the 'roads' to their own choosing ie. they could be roots of a plant which can still convey a similar idea) anyways back on track, the negative space that is not the 'roads' themselves will be where the scenes are painted, in some parts they can overlap and merge to create either still cohesive or entire abstract scenes (again going back to the nature of memory) sorry for rambling but I'm trying to get it down so I can in future reference this if i need to for my artist statement, pretty sure I miss out on some parts explaining my idea so feel free to ask any questions!
Idea of what it will look like: roadmap with a patchwork
https://imgur.com/83UUvxc of elements of cityscapes/scenes rendered in a imperfect watercolour pen and ink style such as this
https://imgur.com/2BtRGpi some parts will be abstracted, overlap, get pastiche-y
Influencing artists:Sohei Nishino's diorama maps
David Hockney's photo-joiners
Ilit Azoulay (came across this artist when my teacher was giving us a practice exam, her 'shifting degrees of certainty' was very similar to my idea
https://imgur.com/a/33MlygH imagine the negative spaces in that installation as the roads in my artwork and the photos in the frames as my scenes)
Artists that paint those scenes of suburbs with watercolour and pen and ink
Things I originally had in mind that I changed:
- Wanted to have the paper cut into two scrolls to further emphasise on Chinese heritage but my art teacher felt it didnt really add anything conceptually other than that and I agreed with her so I am planning to cut it into 4-5 panels and get those professionally mounted onto foam-core
Other notes:
-May have to make some scenes obviously associated with Sydney and Hong Kong for markers to realise they are of those places
-Since my artwork is stuck to a wall, the watercolour tends to drip down when I'm painting but I think i can accomodate to this can use the drip effect to my advantage and link it back to memories