oh boy: A little insight into my Yr 12 Body of Work for Visual Arts (In slow progress)

In action (kinda) progress shot taken a while back (yes, I have progressed)

So I thought I'd show and tell you a bit about what I'm doing for my Visual Arts because you know, that's what's keeping me away from posting on here more! I hope it's worth the time I spend on it in the end because otherwise I could have been running a blog, what a waste of time. Haha.

My photo (An alley way in the middle of the CBD) hand cut with layout overlaying some old England street

Anyway, so the concept of my work is hard to explain (naturally because everything is with me) but I will try to communicate it to you and if not I guess you can just pretend to understand and look at the pretty colours. My concept was initially inspired by the artist Rosalie Gascoigne and her beautiful, serene, strangely calming but simple landscapes of her Australian outback surroundings. I lifted from that my own idea, which was to create intricate, harmonious works but use my urban surroundings as my backdrop to design from. I ran with that idea and then developed it into seeing the beauty in the streets, which we tend to overlook because we consider urbanisation as a bad thing wrecking the environment. I understand that (top geography student) but I have also come to realise how unconventionally beautiful the concrete mixed with the sharp lines of buildings with the glowing, battered street lights can be. Also the idea of street art and if it can be understood by the audience if it is put in a contemporary gallery context and vice versa is also what I'm dealing. I'm not going to go too artsy on everyone, so I shall stop now.

1. Two of my photographs (One outside American Apparel in Surry Hills and the other an old police station in Newtown) photoshopped together and then hand cut layout overlaying text
2. Same photograph hand cut overlaying my photo of a main street in Newtown

Since I was born with talents that aren't really recognised as talents (like dressing myself well, cutting and pasting like a legend, having '''tumblr" hair) (sarcasm) for my body of work, I obviously did not choose to paint or draw or whatever traditional form but instead my work as a whole is a mixed media work. I don't even know how to describe what I do but I'm cutting up doily like intricate patterns but using my own patterns that are inspired by architectural lines and shapes. All the photos that I've cut out of are photos I have taken myself, adding another element, and I have collaged these with other images from Time and National Geographic articles and other bits and bobs I've found. There are photoshop elements in my work where I have taken into account the composition Rosalie Gascoigne but then re-interpreted it using photoshop and the urban landscape. I also plan to have a sculptural element where I'll spray stencilling using the cut out's I created as stencils, hopefully if time doesn't get me. The sculptural element will be out of wood and I want to have people carve thoughts into it or anything really, which will add to my concept of the street because that is how humans (which are also in fact part of the city urban landscape) leave their mark sometimes on the street. Something like that.

So I have more, but I think I'll leave them for the next progress post. Hopefully, this will also encourage me to continue progressing at a solid pace too. Hopefully. Oh wait one more thing, Matt Corby's new song 'Resolution'? It is my heaven on earth right now, it is the only thing keeping me sane, Matt Corby is just a stunning piece of art. Ha. Get it. This whole post is coming together quite nicely now isn't it? I'm going to go now and leave you with the song linked at the bottom.