Tampered Memory
Final Outcomes
Final images – composition and narrowing down finals
grouped together imagery in size and techniques to bring together the composition.
New found thesis- Vocative Art Theory
Inspired by visual methodologies, lancan and ponty.
My developing art theory has been sculpted over the course 5 years of research and practical development, since the second year of my first art course, I have been interested and passionate about aesthetics, visuals and how this impacts the mind. The concept in reference has been growing in relation to psychology and the meaning, purpose and definition of art – playing a role in each of my projects as it develops.
After reading and synthesising the ideas and concepts of my literature sources, I discovered a gap in the field of art and psychology, particularly the process of which psychotherapists use art as a method of investigating mental health and the way in which we explore ourselves through art generally. These are both an opportunity for psychoanalysis. The Process of which we call on our unconscious through conscious interactions is what I have coined as ‘Vocative art theory’.
Psychoanalysts such as Freud believed mental health issues lie between the conscious and unsconcious therefore methods used to surface unsconcious were applied within treatmeants, meaning the term applies to both psychoanalysis and surrealist/outsider arts. Throughout my research I have read mulitple papers on visuals and psychoanalysis refering to this term through indepth discussion, I feel the term vocaticve fits well.
‘Vocative’ in english –
relating to or denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in Latin and other languages, used in addressing or invoking a person or thing.
I feel the term vocative in art refers to the addressing of the unconscious, by exploring alls forms of art, we are calling on the different parts of ourselves that make up our mind, and since the conscious is already present, the unconsicous is all that can be called upon, surfacing the role of psychoanalysis in art and in that, art therapy.
Furthering Development
After concluding my art therapy/outsider art workshops, I felt it was appropriate to begin exploring new
Sewing into photography
Scratching away areas using wood carving tools
Bleaching the materials I scratched
Bleaching photography
Developing the material by combining techniques
Art Therapy workshop Acvtivites
I have carried out a variety of automatic activites with my two students including: poetry tasks, emotional colour wheel, inkblot test, sculpture, automatic drawing and visual questionnaire. I have accumulated the results into a clear file which I can reference throughout the rest of my project.
I have posted the emotion wheel and drawing activities earlier this month however below you can view the outcomes from tasks: cut up poetry, inkblot, sculpture and questionnaire.
Cut up poetry
Individual 1 – Poem one
Energy equation, one hope
beyond the grasp.
water in the pot, boiled egg?
boiled egg, egg, your egg
liquid volume, internal energy, saturated power plant.
innumerable things beyond
poem two
Ambient, warming, atmopheric properties
compensate, elaborate
creed limitations constantly represent importance
liquid eggs function constantly
perhaps touch, quality, taste, compensate
Individual 2 – poem one
your apparatus
human mind
touch your senses
beyond the religeous eye
understand and admit
the importance of dreams
knowlegde cannot pass
grasp it while you can
poem two
Frightened fish walking on water?
looking beyond me at other people
children laughing on the beach
passions of her love of venice
old city music
ill give you the last line
reminding you of the sea back home
Ekphrastic poems – poetry inspired by an artwork
Student A
Colourful buzz, yellow comfort
so near.
Cobbled blanket in blind air
runs beneath less turbulent skies
reassurance darkens in flash bright white
crash!
Calm is here,
await a storm
Student B
Giant wave!
The volcanic engaging flow
turbulent sea almost vomit crashing waves
Giant wave!
Simple elements, strength, power
Giant wave!
Student A
Speedy colour yielding mood
yellow glow breaks through, deluded great night’s sky dusts over.
A powerful duet,
heats its surfaces
warm glow, sings the stars tonightStudent BCobbled calming footpaths create a stage
starry dusk lit evening
inviting folk to dine and drink
relaxing exchange of the days to do’s
evening beckons – bring on the booze
Student BCobbled calming footpaths create a stage
starry dusk lit evening
inviting folk to dine and drink
relaxing exchange of the days to do’s
evening beckons – bring on the boozeInk blot tests
Individual 1
1 – lungs
2 – top of a roach, feelers legs and a head
3 – an alien
4 – a crab with big claws
5 – cross section of skulls facing each other
Individual 2
1 – two little creatures holding hands (two aliens, orbs)
2 – x ray of the pelvis
3 – portrait of face with ethnic origins wearing earings
4 – two detailed unusual profiles facing one another
5 – part of the body either lungs or the uterus
Automatic scultping
Individual 1
Individual 2
Visual Questionnaire
Student A
Student B
Workshop Conclusion < view my workshop reflection here
I conducted these activites in a course of four lessons, the individuals desired a one on one approach therefore I repeated the sessions. While doing this, I felt it was smart to interact with the activities alongside them to ensure a comfortable environment, this also expanded my results and provided interesting personal outcomes alongside theirs.
here are a few:
Ekphrastic Poetry
Blue wet velvet, ultimatum
a god in building vision
thrives a crash so impatient
gestures in motion, as we wave goodbye
Noisy timid street, you speak inviting words
you whisper through textured emotion, in light curvy swirls
from the surface below my souls to the thick nights duvet above my hat a rhythm so consistent , so deep below that, under pressure to add bright light to the sky’s starry night
Ink Blot Test
1.Two devilish demon birds holding knives to one another
2.X ray of a rams skull
3.Ant like face
4.Two children holding a balloon
5.Old African sculptures of two heads
Automatic Sculpture
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