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Francesca Gallagher | Tyke Rashid Mirror Hut Wood, acrylic paint, cotton sheets, rope, staples, pins, velcro, candles, dirt, digital prints, paper. This work is about encapsulating a space that is both comfortable and uncomfortable, something that puts you half at ease. Through the space I created, the viewer is confronted with something warm, yet too small and enclosed to be viewed whole. This represents the sort of halfway anxiety and state of the human psyche that I find myself inhabiting from time to time. I find it easy to explain yet impossible to convey. Through the realisation of a tangible physical environment that enables the contents of its inhabitants to be exhibited, I find this reflection. The large prints are representative of a concealed truth and the importance put on such through the navigation of the known world. This fatal immobilization brings me to the resolution that one will always be as they perceive themselves, unknown. (Or in a state of becoming?) The accompanying writing (book) I produced to place within the installation draws from objects and nuances discarded from perception, making these ruminations the very subject matter of the work via the reading of the written word within the created space. A short call is made to seeing ourselves as such ArtMixed Media InstallationI set out to create a room. A space that reflected my exploration of consciousness, negativity, and the objects we discard. I wanted to expand on my ideas in unit 3, where I carved into discarded soaps, to painting my thoughts on to furniture, to create a scene. Allowing these objects to manifest the thought drawn onto them, creating a difference between the physical world and our consciousness world, or blurring the lines between the two. I used my personal thoughts and anxieties to make sense of the contemporary time, we live in. As I reference COVID-19 and various other universal moments in 2020. As the artwork itself is a private room that mirrors the self-isolation, we have all felt from lockdown. I continued to explore the idea of the stream of consciousness, in my own mind, by releasing it to the world, into this room. While also being able to reflect a collective consciousness, by using phrases and thoughts that we have all thought and experienced at one point. |
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