I have narrowed my question down to focusing more on the idea of how different people's perspectives/realities shape how they view the art around them and, to some extent, also how they view themselves as a result of that.
I chose to take this path because I think that it is a more focused look into my initial question, while also remaining the "truest" to my initial question. I find this idea interesting because I have noticed that people's opinions on things seem to be almost directly related to how they perceive the world themselves. I think that by bringing this idea into the forefront of a piece of artwork, maybe people will be able to question themselves and their own opinions of what they consider "reality" (that is; what a person considers to be real and true in both the external world, and in their own internal world), and why they hold those opinions.
I'm not sure how I'm going to complete this aim - or even what I'm expecting my finished project to take the form of, However, I have a few ideas that I will look into.
So far I have been experimenting with things where I try to see something in a completely different way to how it is usually seen. Ive tried drawing using only my peripheral vision before comparing it to a front-on drawing and considering the differences, which one is more effective, and how they differ on technical terms so I know what the most important technical elements are. I also looked into drawing something from differing perspectives and using unusual shapes to create a piece of art that could be recognisable as various different things depending on how you think about it. I thought about how children use condensation-y windows as a "canvas". I recognise that this is a very common, almost instinctive thing for children to do and I wondered how the change of becoming an adult takes that perspective/reality away from people. I did some simple drawings on a window and edited the photographs to make them seem more artistic and this was to try to show how a drawing on a window can be as interesting as a "proper" piece of artwork done in a more conventional way.
Some problems I think that I may have in portraying a final piece, as well as in continuing explaining my ideas to an audience will be the fact that the nature of my research is very abstract and subjective. This is because people's own personal realities will all have subtle differences. In contrast to this, some people might confuse my use of the word "reality" to mean "how society and the world works" on an external level more than an internal, reflective level. This isn't the idea that I am hoping to convey, if anything, I am trying to make people question their reality and the way that society tells us reality is. I'm hoping to encourage the idea that, if we are all subjective beings, then reality can't be in a black and white-this is real, this isn't-spectrum. I personally think that the truth of what is reality is far more vague than what society tells us it is. I think trying to find the middle ground between the paradox of trying to get people to both collectively think about the topic in a similar vein to how I do so they can understand what I am trying to say, while also telling people that reality isn't a collective, cemented thing but rather a subjective idea dependant on person to person will be the biggest obstacle in my work, and it's result. To combat this I think I will ask other's opinions on what they consider the word "reality" to mean in order to gauge more of an understanding on other people's definitions of the word so I can better tailor how I go about creating it to make it more understandable for the majority.
I chose to take this path because I think that it is a more focused look into my initial question, while also remaining the "truest" to my initial question. I find this idea interesting because I have noticed that people's opinions on things seem to be almost directly related to how they perceive the world themselves. I think that by bringing this idea into the forefront of a piece of artwork, maybe people will be able to question themselves and their own opinions of what they consider "reality" (that is; what a person considers to be real and true in both the external world, and in their own internal world), and why they hold those opinions.
I'm not sure how I'm going to complete this aim - or even what I'm expecting my finished project to take the form of, However, I have a few ideas that I will look into.
So far I have been experimenting with things where I try to see something in a completely different way to how it is usually seen. Ive tried drawing using only my peripheral vision before comparing it to a front-on drawing and considering the differences, which one is more effective, and how they differ on technical terms so I know what the most important technical elements are. I also looked into drawing something from differing perspectives and using unusual shapes to create a piece of art that could be recognisable as various different things depending on how you think about it. I thought about how children use condensation-y windows as a "canvas". I recognise that this is a very common, almost instinctive thing for children to do and I wondered how the change of becoming an adult takes that perspective/reality away from people. I did some simple drawings on a window and edited the photographs to make them seem more artistic and this was to try to show how a drawing on a window can be as interesting as a "proper" piece of artwork done in a more conventional way.
Some problems I think that I may have in portraying a final piece, as well as in continuing explaining my ideas to an audience will be the fact that the nature of my research is very abstract and subjective. This is because people's own personal realities will all have subtle differences. In contrast to this, some people might confuse my use of the word "reality" to mean "how society and the world works" on an external level more than an internal, reflective level. This isn't the idea that I am hoping to convey, if anything, I am trying to make people question their reality and the way that society tells us reality is. I'm hoping to encourage the idea that, if we are all subjective beings, then reality can't be in a black and white-this is real, this isn't-spectrum. I personally think that the truth of what is reality is far more vague than what society tells us it is. I think trying to find the middle ground between the paradox of trying to get people to both collectively think about the topic in a similar vein to how I do so they can understand what I am trying to say, while also telling people that reality isn't a collective, cemented thing but rather a subjective idea dependant on person to person will be the biggest obstacle in my work, and it's result. To combat this I think I will ask other's opinions on what they consider the word "reality" to mean in order to gauge more of an understanding on other people's definitions of the word so I can better tailor how I go about creating it to make it more understandable for the majority.
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