Thank you both for carrying me, for supporting me, and for saving my cheesy chips when I'm too drunk to hold them.
I'm quite irritated that I had to use the Americanised version of 'chips' for the rhyme to work though.
Thank you both for carrying me, for supporting me, and for saving my cheesy chips when I'm too drunk to hold them. I'm quite irritated that I had to use the Americanised version of 'chips' for the rhyme to work though.
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Confession dump 2! Which is confusing because these blogs posts appear in reverse chronological order!
Took to Illustrator to make some potential designs for confession posters/stickers I could leave everywhere. Colours might change, shadows might change, entire design might change so I should proboably save them somewhere. Are they shit? Are the colours terrible? Is the font bad? Who knows!!
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I sent this to a group chat and I actually related to it so much I had to make it into some posters Earlier this year I came across a really excellent set of images by an art student at Edinburgh College of Art (part of the University of Edinburgh). I traced them back to the artist's Tumblr, and here they are:
In the caption, the artist talks about how they projected all these confessions around their own home, whilst their parents were still in the house. I was really drawn by these images, both by the aesthetic quality of them and by the subject itself, and it inspired me to explore the idea of displaying people's confessions in unexpected places. So I did! From the off, I wanted the confessions to be from other people. I thought it would make for a more interesting project if I was working with other people's words, so I put links to my website on my social media with encouragments to confess something. I thought it would be cathartic for other people to confess something knowing it would be totally anonymous.
Now, the trouble with art is that nothing is ever really original; there are always allusions to and influences by other artists and other pieces. With this project, I was actively inspired by the projected confession images above, but as I've carried on with it I've come across and been told of projects that have been going on for years that are really similar. I like to imagine that this means I'm obviously really in tune with the artistic world. In any case, I am one of many people to explore the idea of displaying anonymous confessions in public places. One idea I'd really like to try was done by Candy Chang. Chang is responsible for multiple really amazing public art projects like Before I Die, a project that encourages people to write down something they wanted to get done while they still have time. I came across her confessions piece on Tumblr, where it was an uncredited series of images from a gallery in LA in 2012. Chang set up these confession booths, (inspired by confessionals in Catholic churches), in which members of the public could write confessions on wooden placards. The placards were then hung up all around the gallery in a manner similar to a Shinto custom in Japan, where people write wishes and messages on wooden plaques and hang them up on shrines. These confession booths were also installed in Greece for a time in 2006, but in public, not a gallery setting. What I'm basically getting at with all of this is that I want to explore the idea of displaying people's confessions. If you've managed to read all the way to here and you'd like to get involved, you can confess on my work website, here.
There exists a very popular horror movie trope that involves the perversion of innocence. There is a dark fascination that surrounds the use of overtly positive things - like nursery rhymes, children's toys, and even children themselves - in acutely contrasting and negative environments. Dozens of tropes exist in TV and film that make use of our unease with the juxtaposition of childhood frivolity and horror.
Now, my aim with my work is definitely not to make people feel horror or unease, but I do enjoy the visual contrasting of light with dark. I really like art that puts something quite dark in a fun and positive way, like the anxiety bunting I made in 2015, or the really great rude cakes by Tara Welch. There's something really appealing to me about presenting anxiety or anger or fear in a humorous way. There are lots of examples of rude cakes, but the ones by Tara Welch really drew me in. I wanna do some, maybe less hostile, maybe less pointed, maybe less heavily decorated, but definitely still voicing thoughts of anxiety. If I know one thing about myself, it is this: I like to be validated. I like people to tell me I've done a good job. I like to be told something I've worked on has value, and that my efforts have paid off. Whether it be a piece of art, an Instagram post (follow me btw: instagram.com/annie.lily), or a Facebook status, I want people to tell me that what I've made is good. It could be a generational thing, stemming from the overwhelming growth and constant presence of social media, but I think it's safe to say that in an age where we readily broadcast our lives, it is no surprise that so much of our self worth comes from the approval of others. We put out what we want people to see; these carefully edited, painstakingly constructed images in return for which we crave praise. Three examples of images that took way too much time, energy, and effort. The photo on the right was probably the most stressful to take - I couldn't stand over it because I was in public and I didn't want to look like a dick so I just held my phone over it and hoped it was in focus. It was stone cold by the time I was done.
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I'm almost always panicking but I'm trying to be chilled about it
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