Summer Project

For the Summer project, I was asked to created 9 images to do with a topic. The topic I chose was observation of the self. After that, I kind of sat around for the whole summer until the end of August, when I realised, “oh crap this has to be due in soon”. I had done some research already, looking into the ideas of Alan Watts, more specifically his ideas on being self conscious. (Go watch Alan Watts, he’s great)

Anyway, with this in mind, I decided I wanted to focus my project on depression and all the lovely things that come with it. For example one of the images I did was a man looking in a mirror and seeing a more ugly version of himself. He doesn’t really look that bad, but he thinks it, so it becomes reality.  I also realised that doing 9 depressing images on their own would not flow well. What this project needed, was a main foreground image. My solution for this was to have a leech snake through all of the images, starting from where it was sucking on a brain. This morbid/cynical idea breathed new life into me, I felt motivated to do the project now I knew what I was going to do.