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Reflecting on Work so far & Planning for Project Proposal.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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What Worked and What didn’t?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would like to start with noting a couple of artists who I haven’t yet, but who also become a large part of my inspiration towards the final realisation and understanding of what I am trying to create. These artists are Ed Atkins and Tony Oursler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tony Oursler<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After realising my focus on faces and facial expression I found one of Tony Ourslers exhibitions, The Dark Side, very inspiring towards the development of my work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The art pieces seen below are particularly intriguing to me and my research as they have a round shape which is a repetitive theme in my work. So far I have projected into a tunnel like shape, I have masked a video into an ellipse shape, but have not tried to use a round object as a canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The distortion of the faces created through the choice of shape adds another layer of surrealism\/distorted perception. I hope that enforcing this within my work ( the surreal and distorted perception) will help me reach my aim of simulating an experience of a state of panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another thing I focused on was the lack of hair, ears and neck<\/a>, (<follow link embedded here for an article by Lise Pennington which also bring up the lack of certain facial properties in Ourslers work) which are generally parts people associate with a face, but Oursler has decided not to include these parts. It does create a eerie sense and also makes me question if this could be a way of detaching the physicality of the face itself and focusing on the facial expressions it might create and the way it communicates emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This theme I am mostly intrigued in of detachment of body and focus on facial expression and emotion also carries on into the work of the next artist I am about to mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ed Atkins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ed Atkins actually came up in one of the lectures in the initial weeks however at that time I did not look further into his work asI did not find the relevance of it when thinking about the state of panic as I do now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ed Atkins is a British contemporary artist who creates poetry through animation. His character often has monologues which make his thought audible for the viewer. The themes often explore<\/p>\n\n\n\n

?loss, insufficiency, inability, failure and in particular melancholy plays a great role? <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protagonists whose visual qualities are so close to real life and so hyperreal that he emits this sense of uneasiness and artifice, even emptiness and detachment of mind from body. (refer to interview below, in regards to project “Something Is Missing”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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