In this unit we were asked to create a still life and represent a current social issue. Firstly I started to develop financial crisis idea, but it became more personal still life with financial problem results.
After researches my inspiration from history art was still life paintings called Vanitas (Harmen Steenwyck). This reference gives me understanding about symbolic objects and nice lightening subtlety. This unit was a difficult challenge for me. It was very hard to choose objects for interpretation.
Other big research was on object symbolism meanings. For every object, which I selected to use it in my still life I tried to find and give a symbolism meaning. Lots of sites with dream meanings and symbolisms were analyzed. Clock means: movement forward, activity and important things. To strength this movement show physically clock arrow turn in the picture. Gold coins mean profit and tangible things. Picture frame with family photo. Bodies I made black like a shadow. It will represent that I'm missing my parent’s ant how time and huge distance estrange us. Gold key in dreams means that solution for the problem is already founded.
Another challenging thing was colour printing: time issue and colour settings. In my opinion this unit I managed poorly – gave more opportunity to environment project. Looking forward it was a good lesson to me – next time I should balance all projects evenly and sometimes different projects can help to each other and give interesting ideas.
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