It’s important to describe your own work – how do you as the artist read it? Because it can be read in different ways by different people, it’s useful to hear how the artist reads their own work.
Explain how you made the images, why it has relevance.
My project – keywords – a starting point:
· Wander
· Solace
· Colour
· Aesthetic
· Snapshot
· Everyday
· Reflection
· Abstract
· Film
· Analogue
· Pleasing
· Resonance
· Peace
· Calm
· Gentle
· Lost in translation
· Colour palette
· Rinko
The key is: What story do I need to tell to make this work make sense to other people? It could be invented, and doesn’t have to be specific. Sometimes it’s also about what information you don’t give that has an influence on its reading.
Make a story. For example - Process: I use analogue expired colour film as I like the aesthetic it creates and the not quite knowing what result you’ll get. I like the way film slows you down and makes you consider your image. While analogue film is preferred, if all I happen to have with me is my phone camera I’ll use that, as I think it’s more important to make the image than what it is made with.
Relate it to other work: I am influenced by aesthetics – not making a technically perfect image but by the way an image looks in how it speaks to me. I have been most influenced in this work by artists such as Rinko Kawauchi and the gentleness of her images, to the colour palette and use of reflection from lost in translation. Artists such as Don McCullin and Aaron Siskind speak of the work being much more about the artist who made it and what’s going on inside, how the work reflects them, rather than what the image is of.
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