What do you want to RESEARCH?
The interconnectivity of life. How Small things affect big things or rather how "small things" (one's everyday) on the daily are part of bigger things (politics).
I like to think that my daily, my everyday, seemingly mundane experiences are part of an umbrella/ web/ mesh of complicated systems and politics that I am aware of/ not aware of. I'm interested in depicting symbols, figures of interest, references of my "past"/ childhood, my own family's (lack of) "history" using paint as a tool to communicate these fluid/ non- linear ideas that is felt everyday within the "figure".
What am I drawn to? (subject matter)
Figures, bodies and figurations in the world. Figures in relationship to their environment(s). The relationship between body, soul, emotions and mentality. (the introspective substances that "make" us up). The fluidity of the body, due to the constant exchange of its introspective substances affecting our body and vice versa. This exchange can be further stretched when bodies are put into a space, an environment, a society which is a mesh of complicated values/ politics/ systems. How can paint transform, understand and transfigure the body (which is seemingly absolute in the physical sense) in a mesh of space/ environment a
How am I going to do what I do? (Methods)
Painting, collage, mark making, drawing, painting as narration. Painting as a tapestry, utilizing the camera as reference and documentation. Using the "compost" as a method to think about "layers" in relationship to memory, history, connectivity, earthcycles and interdependency.
What contexts frame my responses to Q1 and 2? (contexts)
The everyday, Western systems, globalism, postcolonialism, decolonialise, migration politics, cause and effect (repercussions), capitalism, mind and body relations, spirituality, Marxism, similarities not difference, Climate change, holistically thinking
What drives my research and why? (focus)
Love, "The Love Laws", being a better Human/ a better citizen/ a better figure/ a better ancestor/ Jesus/ I hope not be a hypocrite/ learning to be interdependent in my community (including all organisms).
Who is/are your audience(s/ community/ users? ( Question / Enquiry)
First of all I feel like to an extend I am the audience to my own work. I am collaborating with my work, with myself. And reflecting deeply, responding to my practice which is an extention of my being. I am the facilitator of paint and my own voyeur (but I am fully aware of the world inspiring and influencing me subconsciously).
The layers of nuances that appear in my work, only I recognise and unless other's are in "the know" of these symbols, they will not have access to this knowledge nor should they. It is a way of protecting my whanau whilst sharing aspects that I think can be fluid.
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