Mixed Media Installation
June 2015
Well, best start at the start I suppose.
In June of 2015, I was completing my degree. It was a rough part of my life, loads happened. My final project had just taken a sudden change from LGBT based issues to one of escapism. My tutors were not happy with this decision, they couldn’t understand that after a year of researching into global LGBT issues it began to be too much for me too handle, there was so many devastating stories. I tried to explain this, but tutors always think they know best don’t they?
So I decided fuck it! If they wanted me to continue with a project I couldn’t put my heart into I would find a way I could. At the time I had been binge watching Once Upon a Time on Netflix, and the idea occurred to me; if all these worlds exist and all they need is a doorway to open one why don’t I make one, so that’s what I set out to do!
I had already created a large amount of work by this stage, so the problem was; what would do I do with it? During my second year I discovered my love for transposition, that and my recent trip to Paris give me the idea of recreating The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault. I decided this would represent how I thought this world was a wreck and I was planning on leaving it.
I began to open the portal to this world, the world of Sanctuary, that I hadn’t even considered at this point. However it wasn’t meant to be.
My tutors vetoed my piece before I had the chance to complete it. If you have never had to paint over a artwork of yours before I can honestly tell you, it rips at your soul as if you were about to make a Horcrux.
Then a whole load of shit happened, but I don’t want to bore you with the details so I’ll keep it short. My boyfriend broke up with me the week of my degree exhibit. I had to move back to my parents house, which doesn’t sound to bad but think of it as more moving into Tartarus. The mixture of all this was enough to give me the biggest artistic block of my life.
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