Art O'Clock

 For my next project, I've set myself my biggest challenge of being fun. As contradictory as this sounds, I am finding it near impossible! A lot of my ideas come from serious places like women's rights, gender roles, consumerism, racism, which are all rather serious and powerful topics. For me, the biggest challenge is to loosen up. And in order to do this I decided to become a child again. Children have the most innocent and perfect view of the world: sheltered from prejudice, money, the pressure of knowing what to do with your life.. children have the most beautiful and most honest perception of the world. Pablo Picasso was well known for his believe that "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up", which I am definitely relating to at the moment. Jeff Koon's Swan Inflatable To say the pressure of university, growing up and having a career is terrifying me would be a massive understatement. Will I be good enough? Ha...

After all the stress of applying to university, the interviews, finishing my pathway project, I've finally had some time to get back into writing. And it feels excellent! I thought I would dedicate this post to my last project, A Word A Day: Feminism. I would definitely say this project was one of the most enlightening and exciting projects I have ever done mostly because I was able to delve into which ever processes and techniques I wanted to. I have always been very much a fine artist, and I don't think this will change any time soon. However, being determined to push my own limits, I experimented with 3D methods for the first time and have become enamoured with the world of Plaster of Paris and dental alginate! I began my project with experimenting with the power of printing and recording and one of my most successful (and memorable) discoveries was printing my nipple. Believe it or not, this opened up a whole different route for my pathway stage and I think that's wh...