we meet again.
<- this is how i feel
i was going to end the post like that, but i think i actually might be on to something this week. while i was playing with ink and making the short mark drawings, i found the beginnings of what i'm looking for. from those inkblots, images of organs and organ systems appeared, and for some reason, they just make a lot of sense to me. it's peculiar how these things come together; in a way the reference my idea of the elevators, like this internal space, a system. it's the basic building blocks of our physical selves. our "vital" organs.
through drawing them, impromptu through dabs of ink and working them in with pen and nibs (WHICH I AM IN LOVE WITH), i've also been thinking of systems, and mind mapping. just as a way to clear my thoughts, i started a mind map, and then when i realized that it wasn't taking me anywhere, i translated this into a drawing of a fictional organ system. this led me to illustrating other fictional diagrams of make believe organs and their purposes (hm!!! make believe organs. it sounds so magical). i'm not very good at imagining names for them, so i'll be doing some research.
i would like to extend past drawings, though, and i've been thinking of building a space in which i make stuffed sculptures of these organ systems, possibly hanging from the ceiling (similar to the aesthetic of the elevators). what i can't decide is, however, the size, and if i want one system, or a whole room full of different system, or maybe just one big system that takes up the whole room; i suppose it really depends on what the relationship between the viewer and the structures is, which i haven't quite decided yet. i'm also considering projecting a video on top, in reference to the outer world. this juxtaposition of the intimate and the infinite (hm!!!!) is also something i'd like to discuss in my work, i think. it's funny how something so small and perhaps mundane is, really, a metaphor for some greater reality, a broader truth in the obvious.
and i suppose me making these organs is calling attention to something that is so obvious but don't really pay attention to; that internal peace, a certain depth, breathing. i feel that this sort of meditative awareness is incredibly important.
"heart, stars, and hormones"
photos!
the flavor of the week
