At the moment in my work i am feeling really settled, i know that i want to make small scale/ mock up sculptures and that i want to photograph them. However, i am still yet undecided what route to go down. At the moment i have been roundly looking at destruction and devastation, whilst looking and keeping in the narrative behind the piece. I have therefore been trying to thing of collections, senarios of where i could gather a substantial amount of ideas and information from.
From this it then came to me, that my work is always missing people. Why not look at missing people. After taking a look on the internet i found some sites which listed people and where they were last seen, i feel that i could get a lot from these and my possibilities would be endless. I could make sculptures, and from the inspiration of Andres Serrano's morgue photographs, i could put the profiles of where they were last seen next to them.
Serrano creates beautiful final photographs of dead humans, capturing some element of their body. He then titles each photograph by the way they died. Some find these photographs hard to look at, but i find them intriguing. They are a piece of art in their own right and are of a final memory of each persons life, when beauty meets death. The figure above is entitled The Morgue, Fatal Meningitis
From this it then came to me, that my work is always missing people. Why not look at missing people. After taking a look on the internet i found some sites which listed people and where they were last seen, i feel that i could get a lot from these and my possibilities would be endless. I could make sculptures, and from the inspiration of Andres Serrano's morgue photographs, i could put the profiles of where they were last seen next to them.
Serrano creates beautiful final photographs of dead humans, capturing some element of their body. He then titles each photograph by the way they died. Some find these photographs hard to look at, but i find them intriguing. They are a piece of art in their own right and are of a final memory of each persons life, when beauty meets death. The figure above is entitled The Morgue, Fatal Meningitis