Florence Proposal

Proposal for my Florentine Exploration:

       

     "This year in Florence I would like my body of work to move in a more cohesive direction, using charcoal, acrylic, oil and watercolour to study the same concepts and how the medium itself can affect the image.  Gathering inspiration from Florence as a city and as a cultural centre, I would like to use my own intution and emotion to create surrealities of combined elements in foreign spaces. 

I would achieve this through use of textures and Frottage, and the human body in relationship to these textures and eventually, created landscapes.  In these methods, touch on the emotions embodied in Roman architecture, sculptures, paintings, etc. to combine tangible and untangible elements.  The importance of using an alien space is crutial to revealing the underlying tones of Florence and the human self, using collage and a variety of materials in its essence.  At some point, I hope to resolve some of the issues lieing in the self and in society where one can arrive at words simply not images, and incorporating them into the final work.

            My Research for these ideas will be self-directed pulling and combining articles from OCAD online, as well as information taught in Art History or any other readings and films important to the program itself.  Personal research starting at Max Ernst’s paintings and techniques, as well as other surrealist and abstract artists whome I can relate to.  In hopes to fuse the technical knowledge with writing and poetry such as Inferno by Dante and John Locke’s writings on the absurdity of words in language, how ideas start and end.  As well as diving into Romantic era poetry and the abstract poetry of E.e Cummings, to initate an absurd yet relatable world where one can heal themselves in the process of making art, as well as the viewer finding a resolved world.  In this, the process of art will be a constant exploration."