The human brain is the most complex phenomenal in the universe.I lost my
glasses and for nearly 12 days (end of September) and couldn't find them. I was
looking everywhere in the house, even the bins. I went into the loft room and
had forgotten my reason or going up there. I was determined to know why I went
up there and decided to try my best to find out. Was I going to be like my
neighbor victim of the debilitating loss of brain function, Alzheimer's
disease? I was becoming concerned, as I was always forgetting things and was
wondering if these wakes up call trying to tell me have Alzheimer's?
It intrigued
me how the brain worked and I wanted to know why and how this happens. I
had decided to research dementia so the understand of it would be clear if I
might possibly be diagnosed with. I viewed numerous images of MRI scans of the
brain when it was being affected by dementia and before it had dementia. It
then occurred to me what the brain would look like in the human eye, before and
after the effects of dementia. I had found a image, which was a brain sliced in
half, put next to and compared to another brain, again sliced in half. I could
see the significant differences and it scared me that could be my brain in
years to come if I did have dementia.
I decided to
occupy my self with something else so I could forget about what could possibly
be me as it was frightened. I decided to make myself food. I was looking
for lemon juice and noticed that we have run out. I remembered that I had a
Persian substitute to lemon juice made from raw grapes. I had forgotten to put
it in the fridge for nearly 2 weeks. I noticed that it had carboxylic acid
mould (imaged above) I was disgusted and wanted to empty it out. As I emptied
out the jug, the mould that discussed me intrigued me. I put the mould in a
safe place to dry. The next morning I went and looked at it. The carboxylic acid looked liked
the gyros ands sulcus of the brain. It also instantly
reminded of the brain before and after the effect of Alzheimer's as the mould
had separated into various parts and I had notices that it had decreased in
size. Just like they brain decreases when it is effected by Alzheimer’s.
How the mould
was shaped looked just similar to the structure of the brain. This was my first
discovery of the connection of art and science in this semester.
Visual art is one of the fields where, according to Bourdieu, culture is
used to reproduce the class structure. Like other items in the cultural
repertoire, paintings, as major examples of visual art, imply social divisions
in how they are engaged with by artists, critics and audiences. I looked at McGuirk’s research of method and
interpretation in the visual art from journal. That journal’s article, which
concentrate on the theme of analysis within research in the visual art. The knowledge and involve me to
contribution to these knowledge.
In my pervious exhibition I found that too much language and explanation
in an exhibition setting could lessen the opportunity for the viewer to consider
all of them for practice in my discipline.
(Beyond
prejudice: method and interpretation in research in the visual arts, Tom
McGuirk, Nottingham Trent University, UK, volume 5 contents)
The real work of our brain goes on in individual
cells. Adult brain contains about 100 billion nerve cells or neurons, with
branches that connect at more 100 trillion points. Scientists call at this dense, branching network a “neuron
forest”. Signals travelling
through the neuron forest form the basis of memories, thoughts, and feelings
neurons are the chief type of cell destroyed by Alzheimer’s Diseases.
Colour and Meaning written by John Gage, this source is very important for my research as it enables me to find ask myself questions such as, is the colour a physiological phenomenon? what is its effects and feelings? As Gage argues about colour in arts is intended to lay out various factors of intrinsic for the study of colour, from visual arts to colour iconography and its modern interpretation, to view the conditions and also the language of colour analysis itself. This has encouraged me as an artist to think about colours curiosity, because colour in art in intended to lay out various factors intrinsic to the study of colour in visual arts from technological constraints, to theories accessible to artists, to colour iconography and its modern interpretations on the view of conditions and to the language of colour analysis itself.
I was losing conscience in my hand slowly, starting off with two fingers
then spreading to five. I tried to jump over this obstacle and get on with my
work while I was waiting to be diagnosed by my neurologist. I found it a
struggle using a scanner so I tried to do my work using easier instruments as a
new method. I first experimented with ink on photographic paper and canvass. I
enjoyed much of this but found it hard, as I was limited to the number of
experiments I was allowed to do. I didn't like this fact of this the experiment
as when I was using the scanner I had unlimited amounts of try's. When I
had experimented with ink and used colours that were known for decay, as I
wanted to have experience of this process. I liked the fact that I was in
control of the colors; I could use random colors, mix colors, use the colours
anywhere on the paper/canvas that I working on. I think that this was good as I
could express myself in my art. I found that this problem with my hand has
caused me to explore life and death in a more scientific way as I found it very
interesting how the human body works and fails.
John Gage, Colour & Culture: Practice & meaning
from Antiquity to Abstraction
Sam Taylor is one of the artists who
has presented decay in still life in another way. This is why I am interested
in her and her work. Her interview with ARTPULSE magazine she said” I am
definitely interested in unveiling the pain, but not in a way where you are
looking at something so bleak and dark that it almost puts you on outside of
it. I like to look at things in sort of simplest and most moments”.
Sam Taylor,
Still Life, 2001, 35mm film
Her view in Still life took her
nowhere near as long as the Dutch masters took to paint their paintings or like
Caravaggio’s painting from sixteen to seventeen, which that artists are still
dealing with exactly the same thought process. But it did take time to film and
to work with it to get myself more involved in the historical aspect of art and
then contemporizing it by including the disposable plastic pen, in one hand its
so common from our society today, and kind of, well, not meaningless, but as
set against something so classical and beautiful, but in my view in other hand
biologically, material of pen is Plastic, which needs average takes about 300
years to stare decomposing in nature. However all of them say something
significant about the passage of times.
Sam Taylor, A
Little Death, 2002, 35mm film
In
“A Little Death” she was looking at the subject matter from a completely different
perspective. Taylor drive one way to take the idea one step further by bringing
an animal specifically, which in history is the symbol of life and virility as
well. As she said” I guess I didn’t quite know what to expect when I was
filming it, and then when I put it in front of me, as it was how different it
was from Still Life again, but also made it come alive again. The deathly heavy
scenario came to life again, and was more violent.“
She also quoted “Still Life conveyed a
grace in the decay but with A Little Death it was not only violent, but
shocking violent. The
transformation of life into death repeating itself over and over is so
frightful.”
McQueen
used real and silk flowers for the motivation that he wanted to put adjacent to
life and death with decaying flowers. That exhibition is organized thematically,
nationalism, exoticism and historicism, particularly the Victorian Gothic and
the dichotomy of the life and death. ”Sarabande” collection, covered in fresh
flowers, now dried and decaying with age, an effect inspired by dead fruit in
contemporary artist Sam Taylor Wood’s work. It is particularly illuminating to
read McQueen’s quotes, which were posted throughout his collection, which also
hint his legacy. In 2010 he quoted “its important to look at death because it
is part of life”. To add to that quote he said, “ it’s a sad thing, melancholy
and romantic at the same time. It’s the ends of a cycle-everything has to end.
The cycle of life is positive because it give room for new things.
(http://latimesblogs.latimes.comicularly )
Though
this type of art aims to shock, the abundance of similar pieces on the market
has somewhat reduced the impact of its irony. Fashion photographer David
Bailey’s latest exhibition at Hamilton’s Gallery in Mayfair, for instance,
which features still life arrangements of skulls and flowers to represent life
and death, appears curiously commonplace and uninspiring. However, the trend is
far from over, and the death theme is fuelling a growing demand for skull
jewellery, fashion accessories and taxidermy – with artists like Polly Morgan
creating macabre sculptures from bits of dead birds and animals.
David Bailey "It sounds a bit poncey, but flowers
are about life and beauty. Skulls are about death. Skulls are the ultimate
sculptures - nature's sculptures. Flowers are a symbol of civilization and
represent man's imagination. Previously people had only grown things to eat. It
was a great moment when people would grow things for their beauty and not their
function. I've been doing these sorts of shots for 30 years. I do everything
from painting to sculpture and always have done. I shoot these still life the
same way I shoot people."
During my experiments in digital photograms, I
decided to add some motion to my images. That is how I managed to create this.
I used this technique till I found an image that really stood out from the
others in this experiment. It took me a while to see the result, but I got
there in the end. I think this is successful by how soft, yet still intriguing
it looks, calm but beautiful in mysterious way. I also consider it being successful, as I didn’t have any
artist inspiration for this. I
understood the interplay of light and solid object in this processes needs to
have medium and imagination in the natural world for meaningful, intelligent
and fulfilling ends. According to…Art is not therefore the expression of
emotion or even of the creative impulse. It arises from the interaction of many
things the artists with their medium and individual experiences.
The photogram represents a unique form requiring only the action of light and object on image, by placing objects directly onto the surface of the scanner, which is named flatbed. When I started experimenting with my scanner, I didn’t have any sage advice about creating scan art, but I did with my senses. Object #1,I didn’t have an inspiration for this at the first, I simply picked up a simple object, which that was merely interesting and put in to different shape, and then I scanned it. Its beauty showed once it was scanned. So I decided to scan it some more and see if I could capture a more interesting image from this object. This piece is very successful as its different and very eye catching, the soft edges, which make the object blend into the background, its just pieces of cello tape. I didn’t have any artist inspiration for the beginning of this technique, but this piece has inspired me to pick out more objects that at first don’t seem interesting, because once they are scanned and sometimes become much more interesting and beautiful than what they first were.
below are my photograms experiments from 2010
I created photograms in darkroom at the end of 2010, which is a traditional photography technique without the use of a negative or camera. Its made by involves placing objects directly on the top of light sensitive paper and then exposing it to light in darkroom. Henry Fox Talbot produced photograms in the 1830s. Over time, this technique was adopted by other artists and improved over century, diverging from photography in the 1950s as a one the unique medium. Man Ray was one the pioneers of photograms. In 2012 I began to produce digital photograms using a scanner instead of an enlarger.
Since I stared working with scanner as a studio
practice for my media.Vancouver artist
Mia Weinberg was one of the first artists who has influenced me to stay in this
way. At the center of her creation
are images of plants, petal, flowers, and leaves and for magnified visions to
bring people into close contact with the extraordinary beauty of nature. As she
believes passionately in power of art to reawaken us & to encourage us all
to become more present and engaged in our environment. When looking at her artwork specially
when how she often chooses to work with botanical specimens that are in the
process of decay because especially in their passage through death, they lead regeneration,
new beginning, which has
strong connection with art & science
My inspiration for this experiment is object#1&2.
Because I love how I could capture so much emotion and effect in just one
image, and also for it to become so beautiful and attention grabbing. I
experimented with this object until I had captured the best possible image of
this object. It think this is successful as it really shows beauty of dead
object in our nature; the object are dark in centre and the ends are light with
the texture in powerful black as a background, I wanted to capture what I was
feeling.
As Eva Smart said every sights and exchanges could
have a powerful affect on us, therefore art that has been intentionally created
in order to transmit a point of view can have a radical affect on our emotions
and reasoning processes. Art in all of its forms visual art, performance, and
music, literature enters our perception with a flood of input that become permanent
memories.
McQueen
used real and silk flowers for the motivation that he wanted to put adjacent to
life and death with decaying flowers. That exhibition is organized thematically,
nationalism, exoticism and historicism, particularly the Victorian Gothic and
the dichotomy of the life and death. ”Sarabande” collection, covered in fresh
flowers, now dried and decaying with age, an effect inspired by dead fruit in
contemporary artist Sam Taylor Wood’s work. It is particularly illuminating to
read McQueen’s quotes, which were posted throughout his collection, which also
hint his legacy. In 2010 he quoted “its important to look at death because it
is part of life”. To add to that quote he said, “ it’s a sad thing, melancholy
and romantic at the same time. It’s the ends of a cycle-everything has to end.
The cycle of life is positive because it give room for new things.
Though
this type of art aims to shock, the abundance of similar pieces on the market
has somewhat reduced the impact of its irony. Fashion photographer David
Bailey’s latest exhibition at Hamilton’s Gallery in Mayfair, for instance,
which features still life arrangements of skulls and flowers to represent life
and death, appears curiously commonplace and uninspiring. However, the trend is
far from over, and the death theme is fuelling a growing demand for skull
jewellery, fashion accessories and taxidermy – with artists like Polly Morgan
creating macabre sculptures from bits of dead birds and animals.
I created photograms in darkroom at the end of 2010, which is a traditional photography technique without the use of a negative or camera. Its made by involves placing objects directly on the top of light sensitive paper and then exposing it to light in darkroom. Henry Fox Talbot produced photograms in the 1830s. Over time, this technique was adopted by other artists and improved over century, diverging from photography in the 1950s as a one the unique medium. Man Ray was one the pioneers of photograms. In 2012 I began to produce digital photograms using a scanner instead of an enlarger. 
